It used to be a home, but now it’s “a sterile museum.” That’s how Colleen Bennett, a North Carolina–based designer and founder of CBB Design Firm, describes her current project. Her clients got rid of nearly 30 years of stuff, only to realize they felt...
When a young couple who wanted to give their Victorian home a more contemporary look, they turned to Pensaer Studio for a 430-square-foot extension to the original structure. The London firm’s team took their clients requests into account before they got started: the pair wanted...
Edgar J. Kaufmann and his wife Liliane, the owners of Kaufmann’s department store, became acquainted with architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 through their son, Edgar Kaufmann Jr. (who was a student of Wright’s at his six-month-long Taliesin Fellowship program in Spring Green, Wisconsin). They...
A Frank Lloyd Wright lamp designed for the Dana-Thomas house in Springfield, Illinois, just set a new record for the architect, 66 years after his death. Sold for $7.5 million at Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction, it’s the most expensive object by Wright ever sold at...
After receiving the keys to Price Tower, Snyder immediately began pumping the water out of the basement and had power restored less than three days later. Now the team can begin tackling bigger projects: adding a sprinkler system to get the building up to fire...
Frank Lloyd Wright houses are more than just the output of one creative mind—they are the blueprint for so much of American architecture. Architect John Lautner said it best when he wrote that Wright “contributed so many ideas that there are details of work, each...
“We didn’t want to keep anything from the existing little house, which had been completely cobbled together over the years by its previous owner,” Antoine Geiger and August Hijlkema, founding architects of Geiger & Hijlkema, say. It’s true: The new variety of spaces make the...
No matter what region of Germany you’re exploring, you’ll likely be able to find a castle. After all, estimates put the total number of German castles at 25,000. It’s an astonishing number, but they’re not all exactly like the fairy-tale castles many grew up seeing....
Led by partners Bobby McAlpine, Greg Tankersley, and Ray Booth, McAlpine has been devising exquisite homes from coast to coast for over 40 years. The architecture and interior design firm has offices in New York, Atlanta, Nashville, Montgomery, and Palm Beach, and designs a wide...
Around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and his family were woken up by a member of their security team banging on their door. Their home, the state-owned official governor’s residence, was on fire. A state trooper “told us we had an...