One of the most iconic small houses ever built in America can be yours for $ 2 million – but you will need a place to decide if you want to live inside.
Now wrapped in two -part heavy -duty industrial plastic, the guest house Walker of the middle of the century is ready to be sent from California to a buyer in the United States or abroad, said Brown Harris Stevens’s Chris Pomeroy agent.
The cost of transport is not included in the required price, said Pomeroy.
Architect Paul Rudolph designed the innovative structure of the 24-by-24-foot cube, which was built in 1953 on the island of Sanibel, Florida, and is currently appearing in a New York City art show. The house stayed inside the same family until 2019, when it sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $ 750,000 for an undiscovered buyer near Palm Springs-ethlself a hotbed of mid-century architecture who wanted to see it preserved . Since then it has been in storage, Pomeroy said.
“It is a work of architectural art,” said Pomeroy, who has visited the dismantled structure and walked within its sections. “If one would like to turn it into a livable structure, they would surely go through everything their local permit would ask them to do.”
Through a system of shutters, rolls and weights similar to balls, the cottage can be transformed into an open air pavilion that can block sunlight, bring the breeze of the ocean, and tie them within naturally.
The house is being sold with period furniture that Rudolph, who died in 1997, designed or chose for the interior, including a table, a coffee table, director chairs and a book rack – along with his original plans and architectural drawings .
Seven original round weights, painted in a special red and widely referred to as balls, also with the home, according to Pomeroy. They are said to weigh 77 pounds each, said Sean Khorsandi, a volunteer for the Paul Rudolph Institute for modern Manhattan architecture, who is working on a book for Rudolph. Items about the Walker house have said they have made iron or thrown into concrete from beach balls.
A photo of the house snapped by the celebrated Lensman Architectural Ezra Stoller is in appearance in “Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph”, which can be seen until March 16 at Gallery 913 at MET Museum on Fifth. Readers of architectural records, more than a centuries -old old magazine, formerly the most important houses of the 20th century, according to the exhibition catalog.
The guest house Walker includes defined are for cooking, dining and sleeping, as well as a bath and a closet. The stove and sinks have been for decades, and a refrigerator would have to be installed, Pomeroy said. “It was … really a small house before we know what that term meant,” he said.
Target property Walter Walker hired Rudolph to design the house, the first solo commission of the architect. Walker was Lumber Baron Tb Walker’s nephew, an art father behind the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and was once considered one of the richest men in America.
“It was a family folly,” said his stepmother Tian Dayton, 74, an author and psychologist of Manhattan. “We were all fascinated when it became a legend of Rudolph. For us, it was a family legend – a sweet, cute and beautiful. We all loved it in one way or another.”
There were always family members staying in the cottage, often sleeping in making fashion beds from parts from a sofa created by Rudolph, said dayton, whose son, when he was small, would ever pass using the closet as a fine bedroom.
However, she said, was elegant. “It was like glitter,” she said.
The house had electricity and the family brought removable heating when it needed. The opening of the flap brought into the cool sea air that cools the house, so there was no need for air conditioning, she said. Its peculiarity won its place on the island as an unofficial local landmark, a resident often came to see and referred to the “Cannonball House” duo in the weight used to lift and lower the panels, she said. It took seven minutes when you and her husband, Brandt, use mechanisms to turn the structure from a cozy shelter into a high -style temptation. “It was fun,” she said. “We Quiet”.
“The charm of living in the guest house Walker with her movable flaps was that you can always adapt to the natural elements of the moment,” said Brandt, 75, a retired art trader. “If it was raining, you can wrap a fabric or two. During the day, you can raise the flap to leave more breeze or wrap them at night to be cozy. You can leave them a little ajar like a cracked window or you can have them completely up and feel like you were living in an open pavilion. “
After Elaine Walker died in 2018, her four children sold the property, which included a main house in 1.6 hectares, according to the Paul Rudolph Institute for modern architecture. The guest auction included an exhibition, a lecture and a film about the structure that presents the famous critic of architecture Paul Goldberger. The house was separated and moved to the West Bank in 2020, says the Institute’s website.
Dayton said her stepfather cared for Walter’s guesthouse. “I would just like to see the care to continue,” she said. Brandt said a recent hurricane damaged the main house in the first, and would probably have destroyed the guesthouse. “This is our only comfort to move it,” he said.
“I hope it goes to someone who can enjoy it and save it,” said Marina Dayton, 47, daughter of Dayton and Brandt who is a New York -based architect.
The new owner will really want to work with an architect and a site manager to rebuild the house, Pomeroy said.
The perfect buyer will be someone who loves architecture, art and imagination, he said. “It can be an individual,” he added. “It would do [also] Look at home in a large cultural institution. “
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