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  • He made a prototype in 1918; the first Leica (a combination of "Leitz" and "camera") was introduced in 1925 at a Leipzig industrial fair.

    Landmarks 2008

  • Aaron Leitz for The Wall Street Journal For most of those years, Ms. Suchecka worked on sketches of the dream home she and her husband imagined on their 3½ acres of beachfront property.

    The Disappearing House 2011

  • Aaron Leitz for The Wall Street Journal The house satisfied its owners' desire to be energy efficient.

    The Disappearing House 2011

  • For the past 30 years we have seen a renaissance of interest in London, with such milestones as the publication of the Letters (1988) and Complete Stories (1993) by Stanford University Press, edited by Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard.

    Interview With Professor Jeanne Campbell Reesman 2010

  • Aaron Leitz for The Wall Street Journal Nevertheless, the house doesn't compromise on the couple's original vision.

    The Disappearing House 2011

  • Aaron Leitz for The Wall Street Journal For a modicum of privacy, a cube made up of a light-greenish reflective glass was inserted between the kitchen and the master bedroom.

    The Disappearing House 2011

  • Aaron Leitz for The Wall Street Journal To keep the glass walls standing, small rooms at either end of the rectangle the utility room on one side, guest rooms on the other act as bookends with solid walls to provide structural buttressing.

    The Disappearing House 2011

  • Aaron Leitz for The Wall Street Journal After half-a-dozen schemes and 2½ years, Seattle interior designer Rysia Suchecka's approximately 2,100-square-foot home, finished a few months ago for $300 a square foot and designed by Joe Herrin of Heliotrope Architects, looks like a floating glass rectangle.

    The Disappearing House 2011

  • Aaron Leitz for The Wall Street Journal It turned out the land they owned had been a winter camp for Lummi Indians for over a thousand years, evidenced by artifacts like shells and stones shaped as tools, which legally barred them from digging into the ground.

    The Disappearing House 2011

  • Aaron Leitz for The Wall Street Journal When Ms. Suchecka finally handed her drawings to architect Joe Herrin of Heliotrope Architects and they began the permit process, the reality became more complicated.

    The Disappearing House 2011

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