Martinis with George Smart, aka Mr. Modernism, founder of the award-winning USModernist.org archive and Host of the long-running USModernist Radio podcast. For this auction you get to choose your own adventure: Cocktails on the lakefront deck of George’s Modernist house in Durham, NC, during January 2022; or poolside at the Hotel Skylark in Palm Springs, CA, during Modernism Week, February 17- 27, 2022. George also created and curates USModernist® Library, the world’s largest open digital collection of major US 20th-century architecture magazines, with over 4 million downloadable pages – all free to access.  https://usmodernist.org/library.htm

About George: George Smart’s life changed dramatically after he visited Fallingwater in 2007. That led him to a late night Google search, which became a website, which became a community.  Now his small but intrepid nonprofit staff and volunteers have built the largest open digital archives – free and searchable – of residential mid-century Modernist design in the world. George is founder and Executive Director of USModernist® and NCModernist®, nonprofit organizations dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and promotion of Modernist design.