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Risom Residence
Location
New Shoreham, Rhode Island
Year
1967
Structure Type
House (Single Residence)
Style
Modern
Rinsom Residence Jens Rinsom Portrait
Rinsom Residence Interior Living Room
Rinsom Residence Interior Living Room
Rinsom Residence Interior Sitting Area
Rinsom Residence Interior Dining Room
Rinsom Residence Interior Living Room
Rinsom Residence Exterior Side View
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Designer Jens Risom returns to his 1967 prefab off the coast of Rhode Island, readying it for his family's next generation. “The popular magazines were all saying that one couldn’t build a summer home for less than $25,000,” recalls Jens Risom, seated comfortably in a chair of his own design inside his home in New Canaan, Connecticut. “So I contacted Life magazine and said, ‘well, I have one.’”