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☆ They Hated Their Brooklyn Townhouse. Now They Wouldn’t Dream of Calling It ‘Ugly.’
  + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Fred A. Bernstein | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
In 2018, architect Pierre-Henri Hoppenot, who was born in France but grew up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and his wife, tech entrepreneur Daphne Earp Hoppenot, who grew up in Washington, D.C., paid $2.43 million for a house they hated. The couple planned to raise bilingual children, which had led them to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, the one-time Italian immigrant neighborhood that now has a large French-speaking population. But there was only one house in Carroll Gardens listed for under $3 million. It had been slapped together in 1941 among a row of older, more substantial buildings. For a long time after they bought it, “When friends came over we would tell them to look for the ugly house and they knew which one immediately,” says Daphne.
Persons: Pierre, Henri Hoppenot, Daphne Earp Hoppenot, “, ”, Daphne Organizations: Washington , D.C, Carroll Gardens Locations: France, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington ,, Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens
☆ How Two of America’s Wealthiest Vacation Spots Are Fighting to Free Up Homes for Locals
  + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Fred A. Bernstein | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
At first, the two towns seem to have little in common: Vail , Colo., a ski-resort community two hours west of Denver, is bisected by Interstate 70, while Nantucket, Mass., an island off Cape Cod, is reachable only by boat or plane. But Vail, at an average elevation of 8,150 feet, is surrounded by the White River National Forest. “We might as well be an island,” says George Ruther, the town’s housing director, who is charged with finding places for middle-class workers—including the town’s more than 300 employees—to live. “If that wasn’t national forest, it would all be built on,” Ruther says, pointing to the carpet of trees flanking I-70. “Our challenge with housing,” he says, “has always been the scarcity of land.”
Persons: Vail, ”, George Ruther, ” Ruther, “ Locations: Vail, Colo, Denver, Nantucket, Cape Cod
☆ See Inside the Home Built Atop a 200-Foot Cliff in Arizona
  + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Fred A. Bernstein | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
When he acquired the land, Good was focused on the acreage at the bottom of the cliff. There, he built a 2,800-square-foot house and a 3,500-square-foot studio in which he ran a business making metal furniture and sculptures. While living at the bottom of the cliff, Good says, “I loved hiking to the top every day, with a cup of coffee in the morning, or with a beer in the afternoon.”
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☆ In Connecticut, a Home That Marries Modern Living With Accessibility
  + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Fred A. Bernstein | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
If there is one thing Donna and Ben Rosen love, it is modern architecture. Gwathmey, who died in 2009, was a prominent modernist architect known for working crisply geometric forms into houses of surprising luxury and drama. His clients included Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. The Rosens joined that club when they bought the house—in pristine condition—from its original owners in 2002, the year they married. “We’re stewards of this house,” says Donna, a former gallery owner.
Persons: Donna, Ben Rosen, Ben, Charles Gwathmey, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, “, ” Locations: Kent, Conn
☆ What’s Life Like 200 Feet Above the Arizona Desert? ‘It Never Gets Old’
  + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Fred A. Bernstein | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
“I don’t think he’ll be afraid of heights,” says Glendon Good, holding his 9-month-old son in his arms as a gondola lifts them to the top of a sheer cliff. The ride—3 minutes and 14 seconds at slightly more than 45 degrees—takes them to the house Good shares with his wife, Milenka Bezic, and Jackson, who is their first child together.
Persons: ”, Glendon, Milenka Bezic, Jackson
☆ What’s Life Like 200 Feet Above the Arizona Desert? ‘It Never Gets Old.’
  + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Fred A. Bernstein | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
“I don’t think he’ll be afraid of heights,” says Glendon Good, holding his 9-month-old son in his arms as a gondola lifts them to the top of a sheer cliff. The ride—3 minutes and 14 seconds at slightly more than 45 degrees—takes them to the house Good shares with his wife, Milenka Bezic, and Jackson, who is their first child together.
Persons: ”, Glendon, Milenka Bezic, Jackson
☆ The Story Behind This Modernist House Has as Many Twists and Turns as Its Architecture
  + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Fred A. Bernstein | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
When it came to her houses, Julia Reyes Taubman, a Detroit-based philanthropist, photographer and collector, followed her gut, however edgy the results. “She had a fantastically educated but also madcap eye,” says Michael Lewis, the Paris-based interior designer who worked with her on several homes. Julie—as she was widely known—“never chose the obvious thing.”
Persons: Julia Reyes Taubman, “, ”, Michael Lewis, Julie — Locations: Detroit, Paris
☆ Just One Original Frank Lloyd Wright Homeowner Is Left
  + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Roland Reisley | In His Hexagonal Living Room | Absorbing What It Means To Be The Last Original Occupant Of A Frank Lloyd Wright House | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A physicist who retired 38 years ago, Reisley has spent much of his time writing and lecturing about the house, and showing it to visitors—who by now number in the thousands. He has toured many other Wright houses himself, along the way befriending their owners and other Wright enthusiasts. “I’ve become part of a community that I never anticipated,” he says.
Persons: Reisley, Wright, I’ve, ”
☆ Frank Lloyd Wright Built 120 Homes Near the End of His Life. Just One Original Owner Remains.
  + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Fred A. Bernstein | Photographs Erica Gannett For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
“After me, there won’t be any others,” says Roland Reisley, absorbing what it means to be the last original occupant in a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Reisley is sitting in his hexagonal living room on a rocky hill near Pleasantville, N.Y. The most famous architect of the 20th century designed the house for Reisley and his wife, Ronny, making many adjustments to his original plan to meet their needs (for a broom closet, for bookshelves, for more kids’ bedrooms). It was completed in 1952, during a postwar boom in which Wright designed 120 houses in—amazingly—31 states.
Persons: ”, Roland Reisley, Frank Lloyd Wright, Reisley, Ronny, Wright Locations: Pleasantville, N.Y, —
☆ In California, a John Marsh Davis-Designed Home Comes Up for Sale for the Very First Time
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Fred A. Bernstein | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
There are supports, but a magician hid some of them in floor-to-ceiling bookcases and threaded others through wisteria-laden trellises. Though labeled Midcentury Modern, his houses are nothing like the better known Midcentury Modern works of architects like Richard Neutra, which are composed of flat, white surfaces. And, though labeled organic, they are nothing like the better-known organic works of Frank Lloyd Wright, which tend to hug the ground. Mr. Davis’s houses aren’t flat, or white, or low. They soar, in a style that Hans Baldauf, the author of a new book about Mr. Davis, calls “wood expressionism.” Mr. Davis himself liked to call his approach Forgotten Modern.
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