French modernist furniture, but O'Brien mixed in other classics to make the space feel like a home rather than a museum. He paired the Jean Prouve dining table, an important piece in the collection, with Eames chairs and a Noguchi lamp, American classics from the same time period. The mix of textures
decidedly modernist in its attention to details. A custom bronze staircase, anodized aluminum metalwork, and overall spatial concerns relate to a contemporary sense of materiality. Most of the details were custom designed, from the marble mosaics in the bathrooms, to the millwork and Prouve-inspired shutters
You: Love classic midcentury modern designYour storage: A vintage pieceThe 1960s and '70s were fabulous times for major furniture manufacturers to invest in modernist designers and produce collections that are still highly regarded today. For example, there's the Brasilia by Broyhill, the Declaration by
re is modernist, yet has warm, authentic materials and refined details to accommodate a casual, unpretentious lifestyle.
The home is configured to divide the site; the public, street sides wrap the corner, creating a private interior. A breezeway leads to the entry and the yard beyond, while also
decidedly modernist in its attention to details. A custom bronze staircase, anodized aluminum metalwork, and overall spatial concerns relate to a contemporary sense of materiality. Most of the details were custom designed, from the marble mosaics in the bathrooms, to the millwork and Prouve-inspired shutters
exposed in a modernist house, it has a clarity and order to it, but the white steel beams below the wood joists are a disjunction that points to a different way of thinking. This departure from order is also found in the way the concrete hearth punctures the ceiling; its form does not follow the structure,