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Treasure island media12/8/2022 Katherine Stillman enjoys a Calder mobile at the Stillman House Iīreuer’s Bohemia: The Architect, His Circle, and Midcentury Houses in New England by James Crump is published by Monacelli Press and is available on Bookshop. ![]() It is not only a deep dive into a lesser-known but greatly influential master of postwar residential aesthetics, but a look at the kind of wider conditions that facilitate truly fruitful meetings of minds, and even brief glimpses of utopia. Through personal correspondence, historic and contemporary images, and meticulous research laid out in large type, Breuer’s Bohemia captures a particularly vibrant nexus of midcentury Modern architecture, but also the passion and camaraderie that permeated the scene on a personal level. Stillman House II (1965) Gagarin House II (1974) His work at MoMA put him on the radar for a new wave of progressive couples looking to commission dream homes, and subsequently launched his previously-struggling architecture firm into the black. Breuer was commissioned to create House in the Museum Garden, a 1949 installation in the MoMA’s courtyard, which Philip Johnson (whose legacy is lately under scrutiny due to his vocal support for Nazism) then director of the Department of Architecture and Design, conceived as a high-design answer to the Lustron House, an all-steel model tract house that was bidding to claim the burgeoning market of prefabricated housing for returning GI’s and their young families.
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