THE ARTISTS AND HOMES

ELIPHANTE- Michael Hahn (1936 – 2007), and his wife
Leda Livant (1926 - ) began construction the little known
sculptural home that is Eliphante, located in red-rock
country, near Sedona, Arizona, three acres of fantastical
domes, shacks and follies created over 28 years by
painter Michael Kahn and his wife, Leda Livant a textile
artist. Here there is the residence, which has 25-foot
ceilings and incorporates rocks and scraps from
construction sites, a labyrinthine art gallery called
Pipedreams, in which every painting has its own
environment, and the building that gave the compound
its name has a long trunk like entrance made of rock
and an irregularly Mounded roof, and a stained glass
interior that is a mixture of disarray and magic. The
future of Eliphante is not clear, as the property is in
desperate need of repair.

http://www.eliphante.org/

COSTANTINO NIVOLA (1911-1988) -
The Italian sculptor's home in East Hampton,
NY became the centerpiece for the New York
art scene in the 40's. His friends were de
Kooning, Kline, James Brooks, Pollack and
others. There he produced his famous sand-
cast relief sculptures and collaborated with Le
Corbusier to create the stunning wall murals
that are still in his home today.

http://www.museonivola.it

RAOUL HAGUE (1905-1993)- For over 40 years the
American Abstract Expressionist inhabited a modest
cabin nestled in a valley in New York's Catskill
mountains, were he created his most important sculpted
work and gave his living quarters a rustic aesthetic.
Visitors to Hague's home have likened the experience to
being inside a Joseph Cornell box with the same visual
tropes, including collage, ballet, birds, mirrors and
clocks, He treated walls like scrapbooks and called his
collection of modified antique clocks "temperamental
teenagers". On Hague's death in 1993, one final
sculpture remained-largely completed-in his studio,
where it resides today. The artist's home and studio are
now part of the Raoul Hague Foundation, set up by
Hague to care for his work after his death. The cabin's
delicate contents require periodic conservation, but
otherwise Hague's home remains as he left it.

http://raoulhaguefoundation.org