Bob Vila

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Robert Joseph Villa (born June 20, 1946) is a home improvement host in America known as Old House (1979-1989), Another House with Bob Vila (1990-2005), and Bob Vila (2005-2007).

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Biography

Initial life

The villa, a Cuban-American, is a native of Miami, Florida. When Vila was young, his father built a family home with his hands. The villa graduated from Miami Jackson High School (1962) and studied journalism at the University of Florida. After graduating, he served as a volunteer at the Peace Corps, working in Panama from 1971 to 1973.

Career

The villa was hired as host of this Old House in 1979 after receiving the "Heritage of the Year 1978" award by Better Houses and Gardens , for its restoration of Italianate Victoria's home in Newton , Massachusetts. In this Old House, The villa appeared with carpenter Norm Abram as they, and others, renovated the house. In 1989, he left the show after a disagreement arising from his involvement with outside commercial support for New Jersey-based Rickel, and subsequent retaliation from rivals Rickel, Home Depot and Weyerhaeuser wood suppliers. He was replaced by Steve Thomas.

After leaving this villa, Villa became a commercial spokesperson for Sears, and from 1990 he hosted Bob Vila Lagi's Residence, (known since 2005 as Bob Vila ), a weekly syndicated home improvement program. The series runs for 16 seasons in syndication before being canceled by CBS Television Distribution distributor due to a downgrade; the series remained in rerun.

From 1989, Bob Vila appeared in Sears ads to promote the Craftsman brand tool. The partnership failed in 2006, following a dispute between him and the company.

The villa also appeared in episodes of the Home Improvement sitcom as herself in "Tool Time", a fictional show in the sitcom, where the main character and cable TV host Tim Taylor (played by Tim Allen) saw him as a rival and make a futile effort to defeat the Vila. Contrary to Home Improvement, when Allen is interviewed by Nintendo Power and asks if he can make a video game, Allen suggests about carpentry and players will be rewarded by being a guest at Home Bob Vila Again .

The villa also made a cameo in the 1993 comedy spoof Hot Shots! Deux section .

The villa has written 10 books, including a series of five books titled Bob Vila Guide to the American Historic Home .

In 2006, Bob Vila still appeared regularly on television. He can also be seen on the Home Shopping Network, selling tools under his own brand name he founded in 2016.

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Other productions

The lesser known Bob Vila production includes the Guide to the American Historic Home (1996), In Palladio Search, (1996) for A & E, and Restore America to HGTV.

American Historical House

The Guide to Historic Homes of America (1996) includes a two-hour segment in each of the four main areas of the United States: Northeast, including New England and Mid-Atlantic States, South, Midwest and West.

Northeast

Morris-Jumel Mansion overlooks Yankee Stadium in Washington Heights, Manhattan
Dyckman House on Broadway in Upper Manhattan
The village of Hancock Shaker in western Massachusetts.
Strawbery Banke Restoration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Olana - "a magnificent mix of Middle Eastern and European influences."

Chesapeake Bay and Annapolis, Maryland - William Paca House and Hammond-Harwood House
New Castle, Delaware - George Read, Jr. House, built by George Read's son
Baltimore, Maryland - Homewood House at the Campus Johns Hopkins University campus
Washington, D.C. - Decatur House at President's Park and Tudor Place in Georgetown

South

Thomas Jefferson
- The University of Virginia - ten living pavilions surround the wide and storied Lawn.
- Ash Lawn-Highland
- Poplar Forest - octagonal homes filmed while undergoing complete restoration
- Monticello - includes a Dome Room on the top of the building (not open to public) and Honeymoon Cottage.
Natchez, Mississippi
- House at Endicott Hill - the early merchant house
- Rosalie - Federal architectural mansion with John Henry Belter furniture and panoramic views of the Mississippi River.
- Stanton Hall - "probably the grandest Greek Awakening house anywhere." Designed by Captain Thomas Rose.
- Longwood - started in 1860 by Samuel Sloan. Never finished: construction was suspended in April 1861.
Texarkana, Texas - Ace of Clubs House.

Ellwood House - built by the barbed wire businessman Isaac L. Ellwood in DeKalb, Illinois.
Frank Lloyd Wright
- Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, Illinois. "This is more detailed than any other Wright's house."
- Fallingwater in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains
Cooper-Molera Adobe - Early Spanish colonial owned by National Trust for Historic Preservation at Monterey State Historic Park.
Filoli - Woodside, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Designed by Willis Polk.
Tor House - stone house and tower overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, built by Robinson Jeffers.

Looking for Palladio

In Search of Palladio (1996) is a three-part study, six hours of work and the enduring influence of 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio. Palladio designed various types of buildings, but this series concentrates on its domestic architecture. (See also: Palladian Villas of the Veneto).

I. Villa Veneto

Villa Giustinian, Roncade. - For the Villa, this building (not by Palladio) provides a context for innovative thinking Palladio - gothic battlements, portcullis, and stone walls that hide Renaissance palaces and farm buildings.
Villa Pisani di Montagnana - descendant of the original owner served as villa guide.
Villa Cornaro - A suburban villa on a city street, a luxurious residence that is also a place of business to run a large agricultural enterprise.
Villa Barbaro.
Villa Emo - For This Villa "probably the most dramatic farmhouse ever built".
La Rocca Pisana - a spectacular headquarters on a hilltop by pupils Palladio Vincenzo Scamozzi.

II. The Palladians in the UK and Ireland

London: Chiswick House, Marble Hill House, and Stourhead.
Bath, Somerset: Queen Square, The Circus, and Royal Crescent.
Republic of Ireland: Casino in Marino - "architecture equivalent to the eggs FabergÃƒÆ'Ã‚ Â©".
Northern Ireland: Ward Castle - facing Strangford Lough with facade and interior Palladian and Gothic.

III. Palladian Heritage in America

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mount Pleasant.
Marblehead and Waltham, Massachusetts: Jeremiah Lee Mansion and Gore Place
The Hudson Valley, New York: The Boscobel House Museum - purchased in 1955 for thirty-five dollars. Refurbished meticulously, located on a cliff on the east bank of the Hudson River opposite the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Hartford, Connecticut: Austin House - built for director Wadsworth Atheneum, Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.
South Bend, Indiana. In Indiana Vila sees the architecture school of the University of Notre Dame "where Palladio and classical architecture are taken seriously", the Vitruvian House was designed by Thomas Gordon Smith and Villa Indiana designed by Duncan G. Stroik.

Restore America

Restore America consists of 50 one-hour segments exploring historic preservation and restoration buildings in each of the fifty US states. Anticipating the turn of the 3rd millennium, first broadcast on HGTV between 4 July 1999 and 4 July 2000.

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Bibliography

Bob Vila has written two dozen or more books, which include:

1980: Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House. Boston: Little, Chocolate. ISBNÃƒ, 0-316-17704-0.
1990: Bob Vila's Guide to Buying Your Dream Home. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBNÃƒ, 0-316-90291-8.
1993-1994: Guide Bob Vila to the American Historical House. New York: Quill (HarperCollins trail).
- Historic House in New England. ISBNÃƒ, 0-688-12493-3.
- Historic House in the South. ISBNÃƒ, 0-688-12492-5.
- Historic House in the Midwest and Great Plains. ISBNÃƒ, 0-688-12495-X.
- Historic House in the West. ISBNÃƒ, 0-688-12496-8.
- Historic House in Mid-Atlantic. ISBNÃƒ, 0-688-12494-1.