Peek Inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s Connecticut Masterpiece on the Market for $8M

A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed, 6,918-square-foot Usonian residence in New Canaan, CT, awaits its subsequent steward.

Newly arrived in the marketplace, it’s “the quintessential Usonian home,” says itemizing agent Albert Safdie, of Coldwell Banker Realty.

He’s co-listing with Marsha Charles, additionally of Coldwell Banker Realty.

The seven-bedroom, 8.5-bath home was in-built 1956 and has an equally massive $8 million price ticket. Even at that quantity and after mere hours in the marketplace, “We have already got any person thinking about the home,” Safdie says.

True to Wright’s Usonian design strategy, the kitchen is a galley-style area; and trademark particulars similar to concrete-block partitions, a flat roof, partitions of home windows, built-ins, ample use of curved strains, and Philippine mahogany abound all through the house. A Cherokee-red, iron gate marks the house’s entrance.

Wright himself is alleged to have occupied “Tirranna,” as the home is thought, throughout his work on New York Metropolis’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum within the Fifties, the itemizing notes.

The vendor purchased the house in 2018 for $4.8 million and labored with the Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy to keep up it.

New Canaan is a 40-minute drive from New York Metropolis and residential to famed architect Philip Johnson’s Glass Home, amongst different midcentury fashionable masterpieces.

Set on 14 acres, the property contains the home, a barn (with a bed room, tub, and many storage), pool, and tennis court docket.

And tucked into the scenic grounds, there’s even a waterfall. Wright employed Frank Okamura to create the house’s landscaping.

A rooftop observatory permits for additional communing with nature.

The house’s one-time bomb shelter was transformed right into a wine cellar, suiting architecture-minded oenophiles. Some furnishings in the home, which had been designed by Wright, are included with the sale.

The dwelling’s concrete building extends to the fireside, which additionally flaunts gold leaf on three sides.

A five-car storage is included within the itemizing, and the proprietor maintains a rooster coop and beehive on the property.

A few of the residence’s updates had been made by Wright’s son-in-law, William Wesley Peters, who can also be an architect.

So, who will bounce on the probability to dwell in considered one of Wright’s celebrated Usonians?

On a grand scale, “you may’t actually put a value on it,” says Safdie. “This can be a particular residence, and it hasn’t aged.”

He provides that the customer will doubtless be “any person who’s thinking about structure and particular houses. It could possibly be a global purchaser.”