Midcentury houses today : New Canaan, Connecticut /
Jeffrey Matz, Lorenzo Ottaviani, Cristina A. Ross ; Michael Biondo, photography ; John Morris Dixon, introduction.
- 240 pages : color illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm 240 pages
Includes bibliographical references (page 239).
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.
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.
1580933858 9781580933858
2014940189
Architecture, Domestic--Connecticut--New Canaan--Pictorial works. Architecture, Domestic--Connecticut--New Canaan--Designs and plans.