More Modern Home Real Estate - I.M. Pei
Erik Johnson tipped me off to another unbelievable modern dream house that is currently on the market. It’s the Slayton house in Northwest D.C., and it is one of only three known stand-alone residences designed by I.M. Pei (apparently, he also designed an apartment for Steve Jobs in the early 1980s). If you have a heap of extra money lying around, or really really good credit, you can live in a house designed by the same person who designed The Pyramids of The Louvre and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.*
The house received landmark status from the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board, and is currently nominated for designation as an historic landmark from the National Register of Historic Places. For more information on the house, it has its very own website here.
*It’s funny, as I looked through Pritzker Prize winning Pei’s C.V., I was struck by how some of his big projects demonstrate exactly what went wrong with the whole bad idea of urban renewal, which was a big trend during a lot of his career (see Boston Government Center and then read some Jane Jacobs). Regardless, Pei remains one of the most revered architects of our time.
Is that Kate Moss on the wall? What’s the story with that rocket strainer thing on the kitchen counter? I’ve never seen that before, I totally dig it!
photos 1,3,4 from slaytonhouse.com
all other photos from Erik Johnson
July 7th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Kate Moss by Chuck Close
July 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
The strainer is by Alessi.