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Monday, July 21, 2025
Situé à King of Prussia, Pennsylvanie, la maison Sarah & David Coveney. Conçu et achevée en 1960 par Richard Neutra (1892-1970). Photo Thomas C. Donkin. - source MCM Daily
Looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright knockoff. A budget version of Falling Water. I wonder if it has the same issues with water leakage. I imagine that it is a bitch to heat in the winter ... unless they've replaced all that plate glass with triple pane high efficiency glass.
A lot of his students were influenced by his style. My uncle had a mail order kit house that was designed by one of his students. It had lots of glass and expensive to keep it warm in the winter and cool in the summer with very little storage. It was an inexpensive 3 bedroom/2 bath house that did not work well for raising 3 kids.
I grew up in a mid-century modern in Minnesota. Front of the house was 40 feet of windows looking into a floor to ceiling 12 foot high by 20 foot wide brick fireplace. Double pane glass on every window, high tech for the 1960's.
Richard Neutra was a student of Frank Loyd Wright.
I lived in a Richard Neutra-designed apartment building while a student at UCLA in the 1970's. It belonged to a student housing coop that had massacred it into about 50 tiny individual rooms.
People who would pay two and a half million dollars for a too hot/too cold box that looks like they live in a Motel 6 circa 1962 have their own reward, every day.
Yes, and it is good shape and for sale: https://boundlessestates.com/richard-neutra-mid-century-home-king-of-prussia-pa/
ReplyDeleteStill there, and it's currently for sale.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.philadwellphia.com/properties/listing/Bright/PAMC2132774/KING-OF-PRUSSIA/301-HUGHES-ROAD
You know it combines the features of 3 of the apartments in San Diego that I called home except I think they were nicer places.
ReplyDeleteLived in a cabin with a fireplace like that
ReplyDeleteMaalm, iconic fireplace.
DeleteVery inefficient.
Go for it CW and we'll all come for a visit.
ReplyDeleteAlmost "modern regal."
ReplyDeleteGut it for a remodel. - Snakepit
ReplyDeleteLooks like a Frank Lloyd Wright knockoff. A budget version of Falling Water. I wonder if it has the same issues with water leakage. I imagine that it is a bitch to heat in the winter ... unless they've replaced all that plate glass with triple pane high efficiency glass.
ReplyDeleteA lot of his students were influenced by his style. My uncle had a mail order kit house that was designed by one of his students. It had lots of glass and expensive to keep it warm in the winter and cool in the summer with very little storage. It was an inexpensive 3 bedroom/2 bath house that did not work well for raising 3 kids.
DeleteGorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a mid-century modern in Minnesota. Front of the house was 40 feet of windows looking into a floor to ceiling 12 foot high by 20 foot wide brick fireplace. Double pane glass on every window, high tech for the 1960's.
ReplyDeleteSpin
Richard Neutra was a student of Frank Loyd Wright.
ReplyDeleteI lived in a Richard Neutra-designed apartment building while a student at UCLA in the 1970's. It belonged to a student housing coop that had massacred it into about 50 tiny individual rooms.
PS It had lots of glass too. From various vantage points you could see all the way through the building.
Deletehttps://www.zillow.com/homedetails/301-Hughes-Rd-King-Of-Prussia-PA-19406/10042265_zpid/
ReplyDelete$2.5M
More mid-century garbage.
ReplyDeleteSquare, under-insulated, bitch to heat and cool, no privacy, and no security.
Parents used to call that style of interior deco "Early Motel".
Everything wrong with design, and everything you'd find in the Sears catalog from 1960-1980, except the almond green appliances.
People who can afford a two and a half million dollar home generally aren't concerned with the cost of keeping it warm/cool.
DeleteBut the fact that it's not your or your parents' cup of tea is duly noted.
People who would pay two and a half million dollars for a too hot/too cold box that looks like they live in a Motel 6 circa 1962 have their own reward, every day.
DeleteIt's odd, but other than the vast windows, the interiors look heavy and oppressive.
ReplyDeleteNothing looks comfortable
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