Archinect - News 2024-12-22T23:19:52-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/131410734/ray-bradbury-s-old-house-has-been-reincarnated-as-bookends Ray Bradbury's old house has been reincarnated as bookends Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-07-08T14:09:00-04:00 >2015-07-11T21:37:46-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0y/0yzxjstzt3zxkvkj.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>While not exactly preserved in situ, Ray Bradbury's former home in Cheviot Hills is getting a second life in an appropriate, if nonconventional, form &ndash; bookends. When Thom Mayne bought the property last year, with plans to build his own house, he had the modest yellow home carefully deconstructed by <a href="http://www.thereusepeople.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The ReUse People</a> (TRP), so the lumber could be salvaged and reused.&nbsp;TRP then used the home's 2x6's to make a custom, limited set of 451 rustic bookends, nodding to Bradbury's bestseller, <em>Fahrenheit 451</em>.</p><p>The bookends were listed at $88.50 (they have since sold out), with a fraction of the proceeds going to Indiana University's Center for Ray Bradbury Studies. From there, the funds are to be used in a reconstruction of Bradbury's home office.</p><p>Prior discussion of the history and preservation of Bradbury's home:</p><ul><li>On <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/119441449/session-14-his-bjark-is-bigger-than-his-bjite-a-chat-with-bjarke-ingels-at-the-opening-of-big-s-hot-to-cold-exhibition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archinect Sessions #14</a></li><li><a title="Thom Mayne razing Ray Bradbury's house to build his own" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/118346265/thom-mayne-razing-ray-bradbury-s-house-to-build-his-own" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thom Mayne razing Ray Bradbury's house to build his own</a></li><li><p>More on <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/547713/ray-bradbury" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ray Bradbury</a></p></li></ul><p><em>h/t <a href="http://www.thereusepeople.org/content/ray-bradbury-bookends" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The ReUse People</a> and <a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2015/06/23/43388/bookends-made-from-ray-bradbury-s-house-support-hi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">scpr.org</a></em></p>