Midcentury houses today : New Canaan, Connecticut

Book 2014

New Canaan, Connecticut, was a site of experimentation by modernist house designers, and contains an unparalleled concentration of residential modernism. This heavily illustrated volume describes sixteen representative houses, and shows how they have adapted to contemporary life while maintaining their philosophy of living.

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ISBN:

9781580933858

Description:

240 pages : colour illustrations, plans ; 27 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 239)

Contents:

Breuer House 2 / Marcel Breuer
Noyes House 2 / Eliot Noyes
Wiley House / Philip Johnson
Irwin House / Victor Christ-Janer
Ball House / Philip Johnson
Brown House / Eliot Noyes
Boissonnas House / Philip Johnson
Mills House 2 / Willis Mills
Villa Ponte / John Johansen
Celanese House / Edward Durell Stone
Irwin Pool House (now Gores Pavilion) / Landis Gores
Tatum House / Hugh Smallen
Birkenstock House / Victor Christ-Janer
Becker House / Hugh Smallen
Goldberg House / Alan Goldberg
Chivvis House / Eliot Noyes

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2014940189

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1872482

Other Authors:

Biondo, Michael, photographer
Ottaviani, Lorenzo, author
Ross, Cristina A., author

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