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Buy a Piece of American Modernism with These 8 For-Sale Homes

Peruse for-sale homes designed by America's best modern architects.

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Architect: Paul Rudolph Location: New York, NY Price: $28 million If you had any doubt about the marketability of super-modern, verging on urbane 1970s maximalism, look no further than Paul Rudolph's fantastic 3,000-square-foot penthouse unit that he designed for himself at 23 Beekman Place. Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer (formerly of Della Valle Bernheimer) undertook a light renovation to update the spread.
Architect: Paul Rudolph Location: New York, NY Price: $28 million If you had any doubt about the marketability of super-modern, verging on urbane 1970s maximalism, look no further than Paul Rudolph's fantastic 3,000-square-foot penthouse unit that he designed for himself at 23 Beekman Place. Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer (formerly of Della Valle Bernheimer) undertook a light renovation to update the spread.
Architect: Philip Johnson Location: Dallas, TX Price: $27.5 million The International Style architect, MoMA curator, and grandfather of East Coast modernist circles only built one home in Dallas, a colonnaded circa-1964 pile for local construction magnate Henry C. Beck and his then-wife, Patty. It sports a musuem-appropriate double staircase in the entry and luxe materials like the white Carrara marble lining the master bath. [via Dallas Morning News]
Architect: Philip Johnson Location: Dallas, TX Price: $27.5 million The International Style architect, MoMA curator, and grandfather of East Coast modernist circles only built one home in Dallas, a colonnaded circa-1964 pile for local construction magnate Henry C. Beck and his then-wife, Patty. It sports a musuem-appropriate double staircase in the entry and luxe materials like the white Carrara marble lining the master bath. [via Dallas Morning News]
Architect: Philip Johnson Location: Madison, CT Price: $1,750,000 For approximately 1/25 of the price, you can own a guesthouse renovated by Philip Johnson near his own Connecticut stomping grounds. (Full disclosure, it comes with a Cape Cod-style main house dating to 1720.)
Architect: Philip Johnson Location: Madison, CT Price: $1,750,000 For approximately 1/25 of the price, you can own a guesthouse renovated by Philip Johnson near his own Connecticut stomping grounds. (Full disclosure, it comes with a Cape Cod-style main house dating to 1720.)
Location: Los Angeles, CA Price: $2,250,000 Actor Jason Bateman is selling this 1953 post-and-beam family home on Wonderland Avenue in Beverly Glen for a cool $2.25 million. Our favorite part, besides the spot-on midcentury furnishings? The brick around the fireplace that reminds us of a Danish counterpart featured in the pages of Dwell. The backyard is extraordinarily lush (hello, koi pond) though the house is more in the classic LA mode than the starlet one: there's no swimming pool, for one. [via LA Times]
Location: Los Angeles, CA Price: $2,250,000 Actor Jason Bateman is selling this 1953 post-and-beam family home on Wonderland Avenue in Beverly Glen for a cool $2.25 million. Our favorite part, besides the spot-on midcentury furnishings? The brick around the fireplace that reminds us of a Danish counterpart featured in the pages of Dwell. The backyard is extraordinarily lush (hello, koi pond) though the house is more in the classic LA mode than the starlet one: there's no swimming pool, for one. [via LA Times]
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright Location: Los Angeles, CA Price: $6,900,000 One of Frank Lloyd Wright's West Coast masterpieces, the famed 1923 Storer House sports a signature concrete textile-knit block system. (A somewhat tongue-in-cheek name for the four homes he built with the motif is "Mayan Revival.") This one comes with real street cred: It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright Location: Los Angeles, CA Price: $6,900,000 One of Frank Lloyd Wright's West Coast masterpieces, the famed 1923 Storer House sports a signature concrete textile-knit block system. (A somewhat tongue-in-cheek name for the four homes he built with the motif is "Mayan Revival.") This one comes with real street cred: It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Architect: Thomas Tornbjerg of Bercy Chen Studio Location: Austin, TX Price: $729,000 This four-bedroom new build in South Austin was designed with soaring living spaces, a monochromatic color palette, and a focus on indoor/outdoor spaces. Tornbjerg is formerly of Bercy Chen, whose cutting edge homes update the primarily midcentury housing stock of Austin.
Architect: Thomas Tornbjerg of Bercy Chen Studio Location: Austin, TX Price: $729,000 This four-bedroom new build in South Austin was designed with soaring living spaces, a monochromatic color palette, and a focus on indoor/outdoor spaces. Tornbjerg is formerly of Bercy Chen, whose cutting edge homes update the primarily midcentury housing stock of Austin.
Developer: Robert Alexander Location: Palm Springs, CA Price: $9.5 million Built by Palm Springs mega-developer Robert Alexander for his family in 1960, this midcentury mod pad replete with conversation pit and floating fireplace was the location for Elvis's honeymoon with Priscilla back in 1966.
Developer: Robert Alexander Location: Palm Springs, CA Price: $9.5 million Built by Palm Springs mega-developer Robert Alexander for his family in 1960, this midcentury mod pad replete with conversation pit and floating fireplace was the location for Elvis's honeymoon with Priscilla back in 1966.