Tasteful Friends: An International Style Mansion on the market for the first time in 55 years, designed by Charles Eames.

A quick 2 minute video of the former owner describing some of the features.

I love it but would not move to Missouri for it.

I would.

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.

I wonder why they avoid showing the kitchen. I love some of the details. Way too big for me, even as a dream house.

Realtors get weird about showing kitchens and bathrooms that aren't up to date. I'd be thrilled if they were original.

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.

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.

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.

It looks like a government low income housing project.

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.

Missouri?!?!!

Was gonna say what R8 said. It's interesting, but looks like an old institutional building.

I already live in Missouri, but no. It'd make a nice set in an X-Men movie.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Haha, you're right. I actually have an Eames fireplace right beside me. No Mantel.

The exterior makes it look like it’s a building in the projects. It is really ugly on the outside.

It’s pretty cool. Looks like it belongs in a London suburb.

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.

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.

Thank you for posting. Great house. I don’t know that I could do Missouri though.

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" . "

It looks like an abandoned insane asylum.

Holy shit, I've been writing fireplace mantle all my life. But I do know it's chaise longue.

Expected to love it; don’t.

Only if you're in France, R21. Chaise lounge has been the accepted term for many decades.

Time to get my glasses checked,. I meant R28.

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.

Correct pronunciation of Missouri = Misery

Ugly, cold, and too big.

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.

Odd they left that painting behind in the dining room.

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.

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.

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.

Has a similar vibe to The Overlook Lodge

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.

But I will say, the back side is 500% better than the front.

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.

Ryan Murphy might want to set a season of American Horror Story in this house.

Parquet?

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.

Is this another garbage house that's impossible to demolish b/c it's on the historic register?

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.

It’s pretty ugly, actually.

I like bricks, A LOT.

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.

I know, hold me back, I've always dreamed of living in a museum, so warm and cozy!

Missouri. & Easily the ugliest thing they built. Though I do like the bricks with the music notes.

Yuck...

Some of the interior is handsome but it also has the look of a sanatorium about it.

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.

Don’t like it. See why they stuck to furniture.

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.

White wash alltnat dark, creepy brick. Problem solved.

[quote]Would you move to Missouri for this?

I wouldn't move to Missouri for ANYTHING.

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.

If you see this as a McMansion R60, you have no qualifications to discuss architecture. Stick to Pottery Barn.

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.

12 years later Eames and his wife would build this for themselves. Interesting to see how they both evolved as artists.

Paint it flat white inside and out.

Leanne Ford has joined us.

Now that house at r63 is my dream house!

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.

[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.

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.

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.

It looks like a home for the criminally tasteless...

It's not that bad but I hate Parquet floors.

Amazing house! I hope it finds an owner who doesn't wreck it, though....

It looks like a college dormitory. Or a Job Corps barracks.

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.

With this home, Eames was practicing for Pruitt-Igoe.

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.

It looks like an elegant horse stable...a haunted one.

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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

I want to like it but it looks like a house in a movie like Sucker Punch or Miss Peregrines home for preculiar children.

[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.

It looks like it should be an office building or a City Hall.

Also, R80, show me my grammar mistake.

There's a Case Study #8 knockoff in Houston. I wish I had a photo of it.

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.

Looks like a community college building

The new buying will remodel it TLC style.

Looks like a run down school on the outside.

No bonus room?

I think Ladue should buy it and turn it into their town jail.

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.

Remember, it was built for a client.. the house at R63 was for them

The back of the house should be the front.

R88, Was should be were in your post at R68. The subjunctive mood is for hypothetical situations like the one you proposed.

R100, why would you want landscaped terraces at the front of the house that would never be used?

For looks, R102. They could throw a couple in back too.

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.