Randall Ross

Randall Ross will not rest until Shreveport is universally recognized as the Design Capitol of the Ark-La-Tex. He and his wife Molly McCombs do their part by selling rare and unusual design books to an international client base via their modernism101.com website. He spends his copious free time hunting for books, researching and recording the modernist heritage of Caddo Parish, restoring his midcentury dream house and really trying to teach those damn dogs to not jump on the guests.

Randall Ross

September 9, 2015

Twenty-nine and counting: The Centenary Book Bazaar is Back September 11th and 12th

Featured photo: Ladies and Gentlemen, start your scanners. The fragile peace is about to be shattered — the center cannot hold — in the final seconds before the opening of “largest …

Randall Ross

August 28, 2014

The Centenary Book Bazaar: the Original Pop Up Shop is Back

Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Randall Ross, proprietor of rare book store Modernism101.com, has blogged for 20×49.com on topics including architecture and public art. His latest post is about a popular …

Randall Ross

December 2, 2013

To Better The Living Conditions Of All Men: PWA Buildings in Shreveport

As part of the New Deal of 1933, the Public Works Administration (PWA) authorized and financed construction of over 1,700 Public Building projects between 1933 and 1939. The ideology behind …

Randall Ross

September 25, 2013

Art for All, and All for Art

I hold this truth to be self-evident: there is no such thing as bad public art. On the history of a certain public art genre — murals — Lincoln Kirstein …

Randall Ross

September 18, 2013

If I Said You had a Beautiful Wiener House, Would You Hold It Against Me?

In the patois of Caddo Parish, a “Wiener House” doesn’t refer to a hot-dog stand; it’s a generic term used to describe any of the areas’ many modern residences. Brothers …

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