Merchant house
The Kaufmann House (also Kaufmann Desert House or Desert House ) was built in 1947 by the architect Richard Neutra in Palm Springs , California . The construction was carried out on behalf of the department store magnate Edgar J. Kaufmann .
history
The house was planned as a modern- style residence for department store owner Edgar Kaufmann, who had the Fallingwater property built a decade earlier by architect Frank Lloyd Wright . When the builder died in 1955, the house on the edge of the desert changed hands several times until, in 1992, after many years of vacancy at the price of the land, it became the property of real estate agent Brent Harris and his then wife Beth, an architectural historian. They had the villa renovated and returned to its original state. The previous owners had previously changed the room layout and merged the rooms into larger ones. After the renovation, the couple auctioned the building for $ 16.84 million.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kaufmann House in Palm Springs brings record price . In: www.baunetz.de . Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- ^ Kaufmann House in Palm Springs under the hammer . In: www.baunetz.de . Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- ↑ Dominic Bradbury: 100 houses from 100 years. From Gaudí to Koolhaas , pp. 110–113. Prestel Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7913-4322-8
Coordinates: 33 ° 50 ′ 42.6 ″ N , 116 ° 33 ′ 10.5 ″ W.