{"id":6442,"date":"2018-01-19T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T22:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtuance.com\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:52:10","slug":"popular-mid-century-modern-homes-fetching-top-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/blog\/popular-mid-century-modern-homes-fetching-top-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Mid-Century Modern Homes Are Fetching Top Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Architect Reja Bakh specializes in international mega projects, such as the cultural center and hotel complex he is designing in Beijing. But the project that has captured his imagination involves a tiny glass and stucco house in New Canaan, Conn., built in 1953. Known as the Alice Ball House, the home was designed by Philip Johnson\u2014an icon of Midcentury Modern architecture.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at the house and said, \u2018I must have this,\u2019 \u201d said Mr. Bakh, 49 years old, who paid $2.3 million for the 1,500-square-foot rectilinear house in 2015. \u201cWe\u2019re not building onto or doing anything to the original house\u2014it would be like buying the Mona Lisa and taking a magic marker to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mid-Century Modern architecture\u2014a catch-all term that encompasses a wide range of styles, from Bauhaus-inspired glass houses to the California ranch home\u2014has gained cultish popularity in recent decades.<\/p>\n

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Via Realtor.com Architect Reja Bakh specializes in international mega projects, such as the cultural center and hotel complex he is designing in Beijing. But the project that has captured his imagination involves a tiny glass and stucco house in New Canaan, Conn., built in 1953. Known as the Alice Ball House, the home was designed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}