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PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
The blog, "Not PC", posted an interesting article on writer Robert Heinlein's house that he designed based on the ideas of efficiency experts, Frank & Lillian Gilbreth. Heinlein noted that Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, while geniuses, could learn something from the Gilbreths. I doubt very many people's souls are stirred because of efficiency...but that's just me. You can read the post here....
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Apartment Therapy LA (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
This weekend, we toured the Richard Neutra House in Silverlake and realized how many "modern" solutions originated with Neutra that are still viable today. The house, with its small footprint needed
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ximblr.com (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Richard Neutra, the architect, is not the sort of figure you think of as having much to do with artists like Damien Hirst and Jean-Michel Basquiat. But there he was last Tuesday night, at Christie’s, as Lot 42, right before Hirst’s “I’m in Love for the First Time” and Basquiat’s “Untitled (Car Crash).” Not Neutra [...]
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
California’s housing market may be in a slump. But one prominent home recently sold for an unexpectedly high price. Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House, a five-bedroom Modernist masterpiece in Palm Springs, Calif., was sold by Christie’s last month for $16.8 million. Auction houses have been selling real estate to their well-heeled clients for years. But the [...]
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
California's housing market may be in a slump. But one prominent home recently sold for an unexpectedly high price. Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House, a five-bedroom Modernist masterpiece in Palm Springs, Calif., was sold by Christie's last month for $16.8 million. Auction houses have been selling real estate to their well-heeled clients for years. But the Neutra house sale was part of Christie's effort...
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Apartment Therapy (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
In the past few weeks, we've brought you information on the near sale of Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House (lower left) and BarberOsgerby's Iris tables at Established & Sons (upper right). Both repres
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
The $16.8 million sale of a landmark Modernist house by Richard Neutra has been derailed, Christie’s said on Friday. An unidentified bidder bought the 1946 residence, the Kauffmann House in Palm Springs, Calif., above, at Christie’s auction of postwar and contemporary art in New York on May 13. But Marc Porter, president of Christie’s, said in a brief telephone interview on Friday that the deal had...
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New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
"Pentagram Paper 38: The Russian Garbo" tells the story of the design and renovation of Richard Neutra's 1934 Sten-Frenke House through reproductions of rare original documents and the extraordinary post-renovation photography of Julius Shulman.
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Richard Neutra, the architect, is not the sort of figure you think of as having much to do with artists like Damien Hirst and Jean-Michel Basquiat. But there he was last Tuesday night, at Christie’s, as Lot 42, right before Hirst's “I’m in Love for the First Time” and . . .
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
I spent two days earlier this week blogging about the pending sale by Christie's of Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House in Palm Springs. But the news on Tuesday morning of Robert Rauschenberg's death overshadowed for me the outcome of the auction that night. So let's back up. For the record, the house sold for $15 million — $16.84 million with the purchase premium — the bottom of its $15 to $25 million...
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Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A big sale of an architectural icon is a big sale of an architectural icon— so join us over at Curbed LA for a minute, where the Richard Neutra-designed Kaufman House, in Palm Springs, hopped off the auction block for...
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The subprime mortgage crisis hasn't bruised one chunk of the real-estate market: top vintage modern houses. This week, two midcentury classics hit the auction block. The stunning Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, Calif., designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 and the more modest 1960 Esherick Houseone of the few private residences designed by the influential Louis Kahn. Preservationists lose sleep when...
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
With Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House set to be auctioned tonight, lets get back to the subject of how to preserve great Modernist houses from the wrecking ball. (Or almost as bad, tacky renovations.) As I said yesterday, to the extent that they publicize the value of Modernist houses as important works, auctions as a way to sell them could be a good thing. It could even be good that they tend to boost...
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Kaufmann House, Richard Neutra, 1946. /JULIUS SHULMAN I've been thinking lately about the best way to preserve Modernist houses, some of which have been going to the auction block and some to the chopping block. As you may have heard, the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, Richard Neutra's suave little exercise in High Modernism, is going to be auctioned Tuesday by Christie's as part of its New York...
