I was unaware that Eames, the 50's modernist ever dabbled in this style. It's only had two owners who have seemingly preserved the house nicely.Do you appreciate it's elegant severity, or are you a Pottery Barn connoisseur? Would you move to Missouri for this?
Tasteful Friends: An International Style Mansion on the market for the first time in 55 years, designed by Charles Eames.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | April 12, 2019 10:51 PM |
A quick 2 minute video of the former owner describing some of the features.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 10, 2019 2:44 AM |
I love it but would not move to Missouri for it.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 10, 2019 2:46 AM |
I would.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 10, 2019 2:48 AM |
I have no idea what St. Louis or for that matte,r Missouri is like. However, if this house was built there in 1937, things look promising.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 10, 2019 2:51 AM |
I wonder why they avoid showing the kitchen. I love some of the details. Way too big for me, even as a dream house.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 10, 2019 2:51 AM |
Realtors get weird about showing kitchens and bathrooms that aren't up to date. I'd be thrilled if they were original.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 10, 2019 2:55 AM |
It’s a shame the realtor.com pics couldn’t have been taken during a nicer time of year. The dead trees and black residue from pollution makes it look depressing.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 10, 2019 2:56 AM |
I love the interior, but the International Style is too institutional looking on the outside, instead of a house it looks like an old school or hospital.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 10, 2019 2:56 AM |
Funny how everyone sees things differently. I love the starkness and the more traditional interiors. If the house were traditional on the outside, I'd probably be bored.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 10, 2019 3:06 AM |
It looks like a government low income housing project.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 10, 2019 3:06 AM |
There is an apartment building near me that looks similar. I just want to take several buckets of white paint to it. It's amazing what a coat of what paint does for lackluster brick houses. Deco buildings really come to life when they're bright white.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 10, 2019 3:09 AM |
Missouri?!?!!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 10, 2019 3:11 AM |
Was gonna say what R8 said. It's interesting, but looks like an old institutional building.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 10, 2019 3:12 AM |
I already live in Missouri, but no. It'd make a nice set in an X-Men movie.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 10, 2019 3:17 AM |
In the 20s and 30s people managed to put Tudor style fireplaces into all kinds of places they didn't really belong. I wouldn't have expected it from the Eameses.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 10, 2019 3:21 AM |
Its gorgeous,but those windows scream to black steeled casement .It looks like different ones were replaced as needed. That'd be the first thing I did. I think its a fantastic place,Id move to Missouri for it.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 10, 2019 3:22 AM |
Ruth, dearest! Are you sure you don't mean the apartment building you're living in? Stamford can be depressing, but a coat of white paint and some kicky songs from The 5th Dimension WILL make you feel better. We'll have a painting party! Let me find the number for my painter.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 10, 2019 3:29 AM |
Glo, thanks for the invite, but I'll have to pass. I live in Old Greenwich and around here we don't finger-paint our mantles like you do.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 10, 2019 3:35 AM |
Honey, I get it. You don't have a fireplace in your condo. Mantles are cloaks. Are you thinking of the word mantel? In any case, you may not react to my sense of whimsy and delight with the world, and at this point how could I blame you? You've been left to pick up the pieces of your shattered life. And I condole you. You've done a...serviceable job.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 10, 2019 3:49 AM |
Haha, you're right. I actually have an Eames fireplace right beside me. No Mantel.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 10, 2019 3:53 AM |
The exterior makes it look like it’s a building in the projects. It is really ugly on the outside.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 10, 2019 4:00 AM |
It’s pretty cool. Looks like it belongs in a London suburb.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 10, 2019 4:00 AM |
Let's hope I remember the word mantel. I usually use fireplace surround for some reason. Thank you. And it's crazy that my fireplace legitimately came up in a thread about an Eames house.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 10, 2019 4:01 AM |
Dear, you're forgetting again. Do you need some ginko biloba tea? You were the one who brought up mantels. Maybe a nap on the chaise lounge. And a butterscotch candy to raise your blood sugar. Can't be too careful.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 10, 2019 4:13 AM |
Thank you for posting. Great house. I don’t know that I could do Missouri though.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 10, 2019 4:17 AM |
I have a gay friend, hugely talented and brilliant. I asked him if he would ever move back to Missouri. His answer: "Honey, why would I EVER move back to someplace where the highest compliment that people can ever give one another is - "hmmm....that isn't half bad" . "
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 10, 2019 5:01 AM |
It looks like an abandoned insane asylum.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 10, 2019 5:04 AM |
Holy shit, I've been writing fireplace mantle all my life. But I do know it's chaise longue.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 10, 2019 5:10 AM |
Expected to love it; don’t.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 10, 2019 5:16 AM |
Only if you're in France, R21. Chaise lounge has been the accepted term for many decades.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 10, 2019 5:17 AM |
Time to get my glasses checked,. I meant R28.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 10, 2019 5:20 AM |
It's beautiful. I love it. Missouri> Sorry. No.
[quote] I wonder why they avoid showing the kitchen
Wealthy people have staff. They rarely even go into their own kitchens. My grandmother's was plain and boring and old but had all professional equipment and appliances for large scale entertaining with a huge pantry. But those kitchens were practical and not the fancy décor people want today. Personally I prefer those old style kitchens cause I love to cook but they don't sell.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 10, 2019 5:22 AM |
Correct pronunciation of Missouri = Misery
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 10, 2019 5:24 AM |
Ugly, cold, and too big.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 10, 2019 5:24 AM |
Good find OP -thanks. Glad to have seen it.
Looks depressing - time of year to film that VR tour is unfortunate - but agree with the posters who point to first impression is institutional clinical feel the modernist details meets scale and exterior in particular.
Like the poster who says suburban London (agreed! very Dulwich!) it makes me think of the bourgeois rural estate of a German industrialist in the run up to 1939.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 10, 2019 7:29 AM |
Odd they left that painting behind in the dining room.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 10, 2019 7:48 AM |
I want to call this house style Stripped Classicism but I think another name may be more accurate. The George W. Bush Presidential library comes to mind. The house even has it's own oval office. It also feels oddly similiar to a lot of other places designed much later by Robert AM Stern. The elliptical room is even his signature.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 10, 2019 8:05 AM |
It's a beautiful house if you have a large family with plenty of help (ie. pool boy, stable boy, young chauffeur, etc..). Otherwise, it's way too big and scary. I don't think I can have a good night's sleep there.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 10, 2019 8:11 AM |
That place gives me the creeps, and I don't see a reason why.
Except for that heavy black figured door that looks like it belongs on a church where human sacrifices are held.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 10, 2019 8:48 AM |
Has a similar vibe to The Overlook Lodge
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 10, 2019 9:34 AM |
If I had been Eames and saw this home from the exterior after it was completed, I would have killed myself. It's hideous, just hideous.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 10, 2019 10:25 AM |
But I will say, the back side is 500% better than the front.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 10, 2019 10:26 AM |
Okay, I looked at the pictures again, because there's no reason I should find the place creepy. I really ought to find the light spacious rooms and the odd details set into the brickwork enchanting!
But no. The place is creepy, and I don't believe I've said that about any other mansion on our real estate porn threads.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 10, 2019 10:35 AM |
Ryan Murphy might want to set a season of American Horror Story in this house.
Parquet?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | April 10, 2019 3:23 PM |
I like it. I don't know why. I'd be super curious who lived there before and didn't you know repaint here and there? Also interesting that there's 37 photos and not a single bedroom. It looks like the kind of place that would be great to throw parties at but I can't imagine who would attend in Missouri.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | April 10, 2019 3:42 PM |
Is this another garbage house that's impossible to demolish b/c it's on the historic register?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 10, 2019 3:43 PM |
This house is D I V I N E. Get some great vintage pieces mixed with some tasteful modern and this place would be TOO MUCH , JUST TOO MUCH.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | April 10, 2019 5:08 PM |
It’s pretty ugly, actually.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | April 10, 2019 5:13 PM |
I like bricks, A LOT.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | April 10, 2019 5:20 PM |
I love it, absolutely love it. I’m with r22, it wouldn’t look out of place in any city in Britain not just London.
The interiors are fantastic, I wouldn’t change a thing other than a deep clean and paint refresh. The exterior is starkly beautiful. I’d be there in a heartbeat.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 10, 2019 5:22 PM |
I know, hold me back, I've always dreamed of living in a museum, so warm and cozy!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | April 10, 2019 5:27 PM |
Missouri. & Easily the ugliest thing they built. Though I do like the bricks with the music notes.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | April 10, 2019 5:28 PM |
Yuck...
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 10, 2019 5:39 PM |
Some of the interior is handsome but it also has the look of a sanatorium about it.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | April 10, 2019 5:58 PM |
The Overlook is the right association for this house. Or that Frank Lloyd Wright pyramid house in LA where the psycho doctor is believed to have dismembered the Black Dahlia.
Those corridors and empty shelves are truly creepy, and the place does look like an abandoned, once-expensive sanatorium with labs hidden away in the basement for sadistic experiments on the committed unfortunates.
Never would I ever move in there.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | April 10, 2019 6:13 PM |
Don’t like it. See why they stuck to furniture.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | April 10, 2019 6:22 PM |
Wow...a perfect copy of Italian Fascist architecture right down to the details. It looks like a villa you might find outside of Milan. It's ugly/beautiful. You'd want a formal Italian garden...big sculpted hedges... and the right furniture.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | April 10, 2019 6:29 PM |
White wash alltnat dark, creepy brick. Problem solved.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | April 10, 2019 6:31 PM |
[quote]Would you move to Missouri for this?
I wouldn't move to Missouri for ANYTHING.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | April 10, 2019 9:06 PM |
Trying to be positive. The oval library has potential. Lovely wood floors. Lovely leaded windows. It's big. The back terrace is nice. Sorry, I can't do any more, the front exterior is rough. McMansion Hell would go to town on the window situation.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | April 11, 2019 12:16 AM |
If you see this as a McMansion R60, you have no qualifications to discuss architecture. Stick to Pottery Barn.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | April 11, 2019 1:45 AM |
The outside is fab— sone of the details like the etchings in the brick especially made me fall in love. The inside not so much.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | April 11, 2019 1:57 AM |
12 years later Eames and his wife would build this for themselves. Interesting to see how they both evolved as artists.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | April 11, 2019 3:06 AM |
Paint it flat white inside and out.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | April 11, 2019 3:21 AM |
Leanne Ford has joined us.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | April 11, 2019 3:39 AM |
Now that house at r63 is my dream house!
by Anonymous | reply 66 | April 11, 2019 3:55 AM |
The barren trees and patches of dead grass, the dark-mullioned windows. Imagine the apparitions you'd see in the middle of the night, in blue-hours glimpses of the place's [italic]real[/italic] owners, the sudden taste of metallic bile in your mouth.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | April 11, 2019 6:01 AM |
[quote] If you see this as a McMansion [R60], you have no qualifications to discuss architecture. Stick to Pottery Barn.
I know it's not a McMansion you idiot. The point was if it WAS a McMansion, it'd be a bad one. No one in their right mind would want that arrangement of windows if you were building it new.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | April 11, 2019 11:26 AM |
If you can convince yourself it's quirky-good, have at. It's like the Eames ran screaming from this ill conceived eyesore towards their better known window positive exteriors like the one at R63.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | April 11, 2019 11:47 AM |
They learned what windows are about. The hard way. They'd tried to break cliches or something. An architect today wouldn't want to try an experiment like this.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | April 11, 2019 12:24 PM |
It looks like a home for the criminally tasteless...
by Anonymous | reply 71 | April 11, 2019 12:48 PM |
It's not that bad but I hate Parquet floors.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | April 11, 2019 12:56 PM |
Amazing house! I hope it finds an owner who doesn't wreck it, though....
by Anonymous | reply 73 | April 11, 2019 1:17 PM |
It looks like a college dormitory. Or a Job Corps barracks.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | April 11, 2019 3:52 PM |
I used to live less than a mile from there, east as the crow flies. It looks to me as if someone tried to make it more traditional with the foyer floor and some of the lighting. I think this could be a real showplace if it were modernized in an organic manner.
Could not move back to St. Louis, though. Biggest small town in the world and the people there think it's the center of the universe. First thing they ask is, "What high school did you go to?" Followed by "What parish are you in?" for Catholics and finally, "What country club do you belong to?" All of these things are tiered and people will judge you accordingly.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | April 11, 2019 4:58 PM |
With this home, Eames was practicing for Pruitt-Igoe.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | April 11, 2019 5:16 PM |
What the heck, I've been there. Had no idea it was anything other than a rich family's home, but until now didn't even think about WHO lived there or WHY we were there. Pretty sure it was a summer work picnic there that mom was invited to. Whole families went. We were mostly on the lawn near the trees, but I remember going inside and getting lost looking for the bathroom.
That orange rounded couch in the alcove was there, but it was green. This was 1979 or so, I think. Too long ago and I don't remember much because I was so young.
I remember dad getting mad at the directions to the house, though, and we ended up halfway to Creve Coeur.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | April 11, 2019 5:27 PM |
It looks like an elegant horse stable...a haunted one.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | April 11, 2019 5:30 PM |
R55, the Sowden House (Black Dahlia) in Los Angeles was designed by Lloyd Wright in 1926. Not Frank Lloyd Wright. Lloyd was Frank's son.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | April 11, 2019 5:54 PM |
Check your anger and your grammar, R60. The beginning of the Modernist movement shifted away from strict symmetry to put the emphasis on practical living. You put a window into a plan where it was needed. If you step back and look at the front, there is some symmetry and overall it's remarkably balanced. You may not like it, but there is a reason why things were done the way they were. The woman behind McMansion Hell was a student of architecture and would clearly see that the window placement is world's away from a typical McMansion.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | April 12, 2019 12:11 AM |
I think a typical McMansion living room does have better window placement than the living room in this house. I get that the exceedingly tall bank of windows and doors is centered across from the fireplace, but it just ends up looking so awkward. Maybe it just doesn't photograph well without furniture. In terms of the facade, the window placement is excellent.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | April 12, 2019 12:21 AM |
it does remind me of all those post-war brick apartment complexes in St Louis and all over the East. I do Like St Louis, but not this house. Parquet floors drive me crazy, also..
by Anonymous | reply 82 | April 12, 2019 12:22 AM |
I like it but the inside does look slightly institutional. I like the windows........but I hate AC unless it is just an inferno outside and like open windows and need screens, so not sure how that would work. Also, I would want to chg the inside a bit but not wreck it.......... so would probably need an interior designer adept at historical rennovations .......... and I would have to throw out all my furniture as it wouldnt fit the international style.......... st louis is ok but not my first, second or third choice.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | April 12, 2019 12:23 AM |
Gorgeous home - funny, someone posted above about 1930's German Industrialist. That's what I was thinking. It's a beautiful home - but that kitchen is probably a wreck! Not many bathroom pics either - which is a bad sign.
Also, probably has a lot of heating / plumbing issues.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | April 12, 2019 12:28 AM |
Sorry, I find it unattractive. Very commercial looking. Reminds me of a small late 30s apartment building or a nursing home.
Not interested in the least.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | April 12, 2019 12:32 AM |
It looks like the kind of place Ayn Rand would sit, smoke and angrily think about her perceived evils of socialism. Helen Mirren did a fantastic cunty portray of her a while back.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | April 12, 2019 12:44 AM |
I want to like it but it looks like a house in a movie like Sucker Punch or Miss Peregrines home for preculiar children.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | April 12, 2019 1:58 AM |
[quote] Check your anger and your grammar, [R60]. The beginning of the Modernist movement shifted away from strict symmetry to put the emphasis on practical living. You put a window into a plan where it was needed. If you step back and look at the front, there is some symmetry and overall it's remarkably balanced.
Ok, I shouldn't have snapped and I see the symmetry but the thing still literally needs more windows. For 1937, it looks like they were experimenting with right corner windows and scale. What I learned from photos of this house is that their design greatly improved in later examples.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | April 12, 2019 4:42 PM |
It looks like it should be an office building or a City Hall.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | April 12, 2019 4:51 PM |
Also, R80, show me my grammar mistake.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | April 12, 2019 4:54 PM |
There's a Case Study #8 knockoff in Houston. I wish I had a photo of it.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | April 12, 2019 5:06 PM |
Looks like a reform school for 1%er kids. They call it a “college prep” and it costs the same, but it’s a reform school.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | April 12, 2019 5:30 PM |
Looks like a community college building
by Anonymous | reply 93 | April 12, 2019 5:48 PM |
The new buying will remodel it TLC style.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | April 12, 2019 5:51 PM |
Looks like a run down school on the outside.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | April 12, 2019 6:00 PM |
No bonus room?
by Anonymous | reply 96 | April 12, 2019 7:47 PM |
I think Ladue should buy it and turn it into their town jail.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | April 12, 2019 9:59 PM |
I want to like it and feel like I should like it, but there is something disturbing about it. I wouldn’t even set foot over the threshold. Something terrible has happened there.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | April 12, 2019 10:25 PM |
Remember, it was built for a client.. the house at R63 was for them
by Anonymous | reply 99 | April 12, 2019 10:29 PM |
R88, Was should be were in your post at R68. The subjunctive mood is for hypothetical situations like the one you proposed.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | April 12, 2019 10:38 PM |
R100, why would you want landscaped terraces at the front of the house that would never be used?
by Anonymous | reply 102 | April 12, 2019 10:40 PM |
For looks, R102. They could throw a couple in back too.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | April 12, 2019 10:41 PM |
It's gorgeous but sinister. I would live in it but consider it a huge decorating and gardening challenge. I would have loved it between age 20-40 and especially 20-30 when I was very thin, glamorous, smoked, and wore beautiful suits to work everyday. As an eldergay, it reminds me of old bourgeois medical and legal cabinets in Munich or Antwerp.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | April 12, 2019 10:51 PM |