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Aug 21, 2008

Park Model Prefabs Go Modern

New Sustain 12-wide David Greene at Dwell notes that Americans have been living in prefabs for years- "they're called "Park Models," meaning they're wheel-less RVs designed to stay put in a trailer park. (Malibu is full of 'em.) The problem? Most are fugly. Outside, they look like a log cabin or faux colonial. Inside, they look like a set from The Golden Girls." Greene writes that prefabs like Chris Deam's modern unit for Breckenridge have fallen off the radar, and wonders what has happened to the concept. In fact, I suspect that the concept will continue to take off. There is a vast in...