Homes

The Charles Ennis House is a spectacular design of world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Built for Mabel and Charles Ennis in 1924, this Modernist house sits over the city of Los ...

Architects designing modern homes are usually forced to optimize space and to use the most of every available square meter. The V4 Home, however, goes in the opposite direction. The ...

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was one of the word’s most renowned of the 20th century in his profession, he designed over 1,000 structures, but the Price Company Tower in ...

This Mid-century house in Malibu was designed by Craig Ellwood, together with Jerrold E. Lomax, in 1956. No other Californian architect designed an amount of projects of such consistent quality ...

  The Joel E. Ferris II House is a superb example of how Mid-century Modern architecture can integrate people and nature. The house was designed for Mary Jean and Joel E. Ferris II by ...

This modern home in Sydney, by Australia-based architectural firm Tzannes Associates, poses itself to get the most out of northern light. The goal of the Woollahra, as the design is ...

This modern glass house inspired to the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe architectural style, is a retreat in New South Wales’s rolling hills, about one hour’s drive north of Sydney, Australia. Matthew Woodward’s ...

At Mid-Century Home we not only like Mid-century Modern houses designed and built in the nineteenth century, but also modern houses designed today with a Modernist inspiration. The GO is a ...

The Frank Lloyd Wright‘s Zimmerman House, completed in 1952, is what the architect described as a Usonian Homes. The term describes his vision for the American landscape, incorporating both architecture ...

Singapore’s light and airy Winged House, designed by K2LD Architects, makes the most of its unusual – and potentially challenging – triangular plot with its innovative and visually arresting shape. ...

Andrew Weaving is a successful author specialising in Mid-century Modern architecture and design. He has written several titles on the subject – ‘Modern Retro’, ‘Sarasota Modern’ and ‘Living Retro’ to ...

Born in Rhodes in 1904, Raphael Soriano subsequently moved to the United States in 1924, which was where he went on to help define the Mid-century Modern period of architecture, ...

  Mr. Roberts is the owner of one of the most beautiful Mid-century desert houses that we have ever seen: the Edris House designed by architect E. Stewart Williams. Buying it ...

Within all Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses, the Fawcett house is one of the best examples of the architect unconventional approach to design. For Wright, architecture was a great living spirit from which ...

Fallingwater First Floor Plan Fallingwater Second Floor Plan Fallingwater Third Floor Plan Fallingwater Guest First Floor Plan Fallingwater Guest Second Floor Plan Frank Lloyd Wright devoted his life to Organic Architecture, the space within. Following ...

Randy and his family bought this Eichler in Granada Hills, CA, in 1979 and immediately knew this was the one. “The moment we opened the front door and looked right ...

John Lautner was famous for designing vibrant and full of life houses. Many of his buildings (the Elrod House and Goldstein Residence above them all) were included in famous movies, music videos and ...

Built in Santiago, Chile, on a site where a 1950s house was, the Viejo House designed by architect Mathias Klotz, has a built area of 700 square meters. This family house ...

Frank Lloyd Wright designed over a thousand different structures during his lifespan, the majority of which were houses. He was a domestic architect and believed he could have greater impact if he designed structures where ...

Robin Boyd was an internationally acclaimed, visionary Australian architect, writer, educator and social critic. Born in Melbourne in 1919, he was part of a very creative and influential family including ...

Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House is one of the most iconic buildings in the history of Modernist architecture. Designed in 1945 and built in 1951 for the successful Chicago doctor ...

The Madero Franco house, also known as Casa Tláloc which almost always is associated with mountaintop shrines and life-giving rain in Aztec culture, is most appropriately named for it is ...

Karen and John are two Mid-century Modern architecture enthusiasts. They sold their house and went on a mission to find the perfect Eichler to renovate with their bare hands. It is ...

Architects Palmer and Krisel run one of the most prolific American architecture firms of the 50s and 60s. In the early 50’s, they worked mostly on commercial projects and designed custom homes ...

John Lautner, was one of the most influential architects from the Mid-century modern period. Some of his projects became architecture and pop icons as the Goldstein Residence, the Chemosphere and the Elrod House: which well represent his ...

Modernism is a term used to describe a movement in architecture that started in the mid 1930’s. Modernist architecture is sleek, sexy, it’s flat roofs, sloped roofs and glass towers, steel frames ...

Modernist architecture is all about breaking the rules and disrupting the traditional approach to design and building. Probably the most revolutionary element of the Modernist houses designed by architects like ...

The Joseph Bellomo Architects Inc, is an architectural design bureau that offers design solutions to projects such as mixed use, residential, modular housing, commercial and urban planning which received the ...

Maria owns an Eichler home in San Jose, California. The realtor (and MidCenturyHome’s friend) Monique Lombardelli has a special relationship with these extraordinary homes, and introduced us to this particular ...

It was during the first decade of a new century that a young architect named Frank Lloyd Wright harboured a vision of a new American building that would dispense with ...

Frank Lloyd Wright built the Millard House (La Miniatura) in Pasadena, California, after experiencing the use of concrete with the Unity temple in Illinois. But he was dissatisfied with it as a construction material. Frank ...

The beautiful Schwimmer House is created from the Modernism architectural mind of John Lautner and is located in Beverly Hills, California. Lautner was an influential and inspirational architect and was ...

Wood-panelled living rooms were a distinctive element of many Mid-century modern houses. Today they are coming back for contemporary interiors too. From Frank Lloyd Wright to John Lautner, today we selected six ...

Completed in Singapore 2002, the Nim Crescent house was designed by the K2LD Architects and displays an open garden to create a clear separation of functions without the conventional use ...

While studying at the University of Pennsylvania, both Bob Anshen and Steve Allen received a travelling fellowship to study in San Francisco after graduating. This is how their relationship began ...

Eichler Homes are special, as their owners. Karolina is one of them and today will show us the one she fell in love with and is carefully renovating with her ...

American architect John Lautner designed the Elrod House in 1968. The Elrod House is an example of Lautner’s so-called free architecture designs, where nature and architecture are fused into one element. When ...

Richard Neutra is considered by many the father of Californian Modernism. This is an architectural style generated by the evolution of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Modernist legacy, based on open floor plans ...

Richard Neutra‘s Pitcairn House is a very private, hidden masterpiece set on 10 conserved acres. Surrounding the property is the Pennypack Preserve, a nature conservancy with 812 acres of trails ...

Not a long time ago we told you about architect Cory Buckner, a real Mid-century Modern architecture expert, and her commitment to preserving a beautiful Mid-century neighbourhood in Los Angeles: Crestwood Hills. Today we bring you the story ...

At the age of 72, Frank Lloyd Wright decided to build his winter home in Arizona: he called it Taliesin West. Wright loved the Arizona desert. He found the rocky landscape inspiring ...

Even if these stunning Mid-century houses already look great on daylight, but they are even more spectacular at night/sunset. Enjoy! Frank Lloyd Wright’s Marden House Connection with the outside and small ...

Frank Lloyd Wright was unquestionably the father of American Modernism. His focus on connecting the outside nature with the inside is for example clear in the Fallingwater, or Kaufmann Residence, that ...

Model used by Saarinen during the design process. Eero Saarinen‘s Miller House is located in Columbus, Indiana. The residence was entrusted by the industrialist and architecture benefactor Irwin Miller and his ...

                    We’ve already hosted one stunning Eichler Home remodel by Klopf Architecture. The architects design style is rooted in the culture, aesthetic, and climate ...

Summer is approaching in this part of the hemisphere, and we can’t imagine anything better than relaxing in the shade of a pergola belonging to a Mid-century home. Even better ...

A household name in and around Victoria Australia, Robin Boyd became famous for his promotion of inexpensive prefabricated homes that incorporated Australian Modernist Architecture. He was the director of the ...

One of the reasons why Modernist architecture is still contemporary after over 60 years is its legacy. Today’s architects find inspiration in the Modernist principles of connecting with nature while respecting ...

In 2014, Klopf Architecture, Arterra Landscape Architects and Flegels Construction completed their remodeling of a classic open, indoor-outdoor Eichler home, which can be found in Palo Alto, CA, epitomizes Joseph ...

    One of the famous and celebrated architects of the 20th Century is Richard Neutra, known for his design contributions in mid-century modern Californian architecture. The Austrian-native architect had ...

As anyone with an appreciation for great architecture knows, photographs, no matter how stunning, only tell part of the story. To truly appreciate a great building you have to experience ...

Ever wanted to feel like you were floating through a blue gum tree forest whilst enjoying the comfort of your own home? This peculiar objective was the main aim of ...

Ray Kappe is one of our favourite architects. With his projects he perfectly represented the Modernists philosophy and built some of the most beautiful Californian houses, including his own: the Ray Kappe residence. Below ...

At first glance, the John Lautner Garcia house appears to be fairly simple with regards to its conceptual design. To the untrained eye, one can simply see an overarching roof ...

By the turn of the twentieth century elegant townhouses around Harrison Street and Washington Street in New York, were turned into businesses, ripping out beautiful parlor floors and replacing them ...

No stranger to modern design, Max De Pree was the chairman of the Herman Miller Furniture Company, a firm which, founded by De Pree’s father, began championing modern design in ...

The Rose house was designed by architect  James Speyer in 1953, is a stunning example of Californian Modernist architecture and part of the history of Hollywood as well. Read the transcript of ...

This side of the hemisphere, spring has sprung and soon it will be time for outdoor parties and al fresco drinks. Pool parties, of course, are the long-time favourite and Modernist architects ...

Even though architects Buff and Hensman were known for their single-level house designs made of poles and beams, for the Andrews house they choose a townhouse concept instead. The Andrews asked for privacy, so the architects ...

This house, designed by Hfs d, has definitely a Mid-century modern vibe. Details as the flat roof or the floor to ceiling glass windows remind of a 1950s aesthetic. The living ...

  Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Marden House in 1952 for Luis Marden, an acclaimed National Geographic photographer, and his wife Ethel. The house is made of cinder blocks and features a ...

A common feature to many Mid-century Modern houses, is the atrium. The atrium is a large space within a house, often covered  by a glass roof that provides light and adds an extra ...

With no formal training in architecture, design or landscape solutions, Keith York(the current owner of the Craig Ellwood Bobertz house) never foresaw becoming a devoted proponent of all three in ...

This Palm Springs mid-century desert house was built by architects Wexler & Harrison in 1954. Its main characteristic, aligned with the modernist Californian style, is the lack of boundaries between ...

If you have read the interview to our friend and Eichlers expert Monique Lombardelli, you will remember that she was working on building new Eichlers based on original plans. Well, she made ...

This house is located in the state of Illinois, U.S., and was designed in 1967 by the architect John Replinger. The iconic elements of a mid-century modern house are all there: ...

We found this stunning A. Quincy Jones designed house in Bel Air, Los Angeles and immediately fall for it. The house was built in 1965 and has 300 degree views from Los Angeles to the ...

Jennifer and Mattias are the owners of this house. They decided to settle their family in Portland after many years of traveling. Matias is a Swedish designer and photographer that ...

If you are following our series about the Eichler Homes, you will remember that in the last article(Eichler Homes: From Niche to Mainstream) we mentioned the cooperation between Joseph Eichler ...

In the early 1950s, Raymond Kappe worked with Carl Maston and learned to combine wood with a strong sense of structure. These principles are clearly reflected in his family house built on a steep canyon ...

Harry Seidler’s Rose House is the first and probably most known work of architect Harry Seidler. This great example of Mid-century Modern Australian architecture was built close to Sydney and had very special clients, Seidler’s parents. Two ...

When in 2007 the Fisher family decided that was time to renovate their Mid-century Modern cabin, they went for a respectful, low budget and highly space efficient approach. The architect carefully listened to their needs ...

A couple of weeks ago I published the first part of the article that Darren wrote for us about mid century modern courtyards and their houses. Today we’ll finish our ...

The Killingsworth Residence construction started seven years after the architect bought the land. Its plan is made of integrated pavilions that extend to the surrounding garden. The 3.200 square foot house is further ...

For this project, Raphael Soriano chose the steel frame layout of his Case Study House successfully bringing the relaxed and modern way of living of  mid century modern houses in a apartment ...

I always say that you guys are the best! In fact I found this house thanks to one of you that follows Mid Century Home on Facebook -Itsso Retro- and I ...

Today I want to introduce you another one of you that from now on will contribute to Mid Century Home with his view on Mid Century Modern: Darren. We already ...

The Architect Leo Peiffer built the house for himself in 1963 bringing his mid century modern principles to a Midwestern environment. The building structure is formed by interlinked cubic volumes on a ...

Henry Singleton Wanted an expansive house with terraces on both sides overlooking the valley, the mountains, and Lake Hollywood, the shape of which was echoed in the reflecting pool at the edge of the living ...

Few days ago I wrote about a modernist house in Australia designed by Harry Seidler. Once I posted about it on the Mid Century Home Facebook Page, one of you -Alison- ...

When the Burtons asked Marmol Radziner to design their vacation house in Mendocino County they wanted a very simple project made of replaceable materials.

Some people are so lucky to have a house that tells a story, the story of their family: it is the case of today’s house. Brian Seidler is the actual ...

(Above: Ground floor, the Jacobsen Swan Chair, the Florence Knoll sofa, the prototype 3-leg Eames CTM coffee table, the screen is a one of a kind by Sol Bloom) David is ...

Rachel is a photographer that moved in this house -designed by Cliff May in Long Beach- with her husband and their little baby Nova a couple of years ago.

Let’s go on with this past year’s rewind. Today is the turn of the Mid Century Modern Houses you most liked in 2012.

As the last house I showed you few days ago, also today’s apartment is spacious, bright and furnished with amazing European mid century modern design pieces. It is located where ...

As I wrote already a couple of weeks ago, this month I’m dedicating special posts to special houses owned by very special persons: collectors of mid century modern art/design.

This ancient Belgium manor house near Brussels was built in the early sixteenth century. It has all the characteristics that a mid century modern house would have: clean, simple lines, glass walls ...

Darren is the lucky owner of a beautiful Mid-century house in Melbourne. His house is an example of Australian Modernism and carefully furnished with many Mid-century pieces chosen by him with love ...

The main priority of the architect Richard Dorman for the Briggs Residence project, was to create a liveable indoor-outdoor space for a family of six. The outside family play area was ...

(above: ceramics by Axel Salto and candles holder designed by Hayno Focken. Sofa and side table by Kaare Klint.) With this post I will start writing about mid century modern from ...

The lait motif of this New York apartment restored by the architect Michael Haverland is its pre-war origin. The owners wanted to keep the original details as the brass and ...

Designed by Architect Raul F. Garduno and completed in 1962, this hillside house in Los Angeles has a breath-taking view of Silver Lake and the Hollywood Sign. Raul F. Garduno designed the ...

Chris Barrett decorated this modern beach with casual sophistication. She drew influence from mid century modern to the surf culture of manhattan beach. As the best mid century modern houses, ...

I always found houses where the owners live since decades particularly interesting, if the owner also designed the house and is a famous mid century modern architect than it becomes ...

The owner of this pad in Buenos Aires -the art director Juan Gatti- spent many years abroad for work, but when decided to come back he wanted a house that ...

It is true that living in a city like Los Angeles -where mid century modern design and modernist architecture basically were born- helps to make your house the perfect place ...

The owner of this apartment on the Upper West Side in New York is a mid century modern art and furniture collector. The interior designers are Jayne and Joan Michaels, ...

If we think to mid century modern architecture or interiors our mind probably first goes to western locations as California or North Europe, but I think it is interesting to see how ...

I have a new hobby, browsing for mid century modern houses on Airbnb, you know…the popular website to rent houses or rooms for your vacations.

Built in Beverly Hills around 1955 by the architects Smith and Williams, the Booth Residence got my attention for its architecture, in the middle between a cabin and a pure ...

If you follow us regularly, you already know Darren Bradley. Darren is a very talented photographer (he recently published a beautiful photographic book about Brutalist architecture) passionate of Modernist architecture and a ...

The Buff, Straub and Hensmann Studio designed many of the mid century modern homes photographed by Julius Shulman along his career; includingthe one for the Edwards family. The Edwards residence ...

The guys at W2 Studio did a great job with this house! The mid century modern inspiration is clear.

As many mid century modern homes, also in the Raymond Kappe Hayes Residence the boundaries between inside and outside spaces blurred.

There are too many elements that remember me of a mid century modern house in this Luke Zuber‘s work.

After updating the Richard Neutra Kaufmann house with some amazing pics from the Julius Shulman archive, I also spotted these amazing photos of a fantastic piece of mid century  modern ...

These two houses from the early 1900 have been renovated by the architect Patrice Lémeret and interior designers Michel Penneman and Catharina Eklof, the result is this amazing mid century modern decorated Bed&Breakfast hotel ...

I can say very little about this amazing example of mid century modern architecture inspiration. I already knew that several architects and designers are inspired by mid-century mmodern design but ...

After Daan, Guido and Cobus today I want to share with you another amazing house in Amsterdam that I visited recently. Its owner, Marco, is a friendly Italian guy living ...

I can’t help it, I love small spaces. Probably because they are more tricky to decorate and they force you to be creative. This house is based in Manhattan and ...

After the Collector’s Apartment and the Eclectic Mid-Century Modern Apartment in Amsterdam, today I want to share with you the amazing two floors apartment in Amsterdam of an interior decorator: Cobus Van Aswegen. ...

The owners of this house in Boston are two collectors of vintage retro and industrial pieces. What I like the most of this house is the feeling of cosiness it ...

Today I’ll show you a very special house, the famous Danish designer Borge Mogensen home. The house is, of course, filled of pieces that Mogensen designed -as the Spanish chairs, Hunt seat, J39-chair ...

Space and art are the keywords for this apartment in San Paolo designed by Felipe Hess. The owners are a mature couple that needed an open space where welcome friends ...

Until June 17th at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum in Santa Barbara you can see how Cliff May revolutionized the traditional Ranch making it one of the icons of the mid ...

Some time ago I published this house that -as the Eclectic Mid-Century Modern Apartment in Amsterdam I wrote about last week- also is owned by a friend of mine: Daan. Daan is a communication & ...

The couple owning this modern retro loft in Madrid did an amazing job. The mix of art, mid-century modern furniture and playful objects is remarkable. If I have to pick a spot, ...

Sometimes you enter an apartment and immediately feel a connection with it. That is what happened when I first entered this amazing house. From Mid-Century to Contemporary. The owner, my ...

I like how the owners of this mid-century inspired bungalow in the Hampshire furnished it. The colors and materials perfectly match. I like how the sloping ceiling creates geometries in ...

A part from reading about mid century modern design and architecture, I sometimes watch TV series and movies; yes I do. Within my top 10 favorite actresses, Rachel Griffith has definitely a good ...

When I first saw this apartment I realized that it did’t have a mid-century architecture but that it was more a tribute to it. Reading Tyler’s post, I was confirmed ...

This amazing house inspired to the mid-century modern architecture movement was designed by the Craig Steely studio from San Francisco. The house is located on a cliff above the ocean ...

The perfect environment for mid-century modern furniture? Los Angeles, a bright mid-century modern house owned by a young couple. The classical mid-century modern decor elements are all there: big ceiling ...

This Mid-century Modern house designed by Arthur Witthoefft in 1957 has been recently bought and completely renovated to bring it to its original beauty after seven years of complete abandon. The house ...

So far I resisted but now I can’t anymore…I have to share with you all the beautiful mid-century houses I stumble upon the internet! I wanted to keep a more ...

Our lives, that’s what our houses should be about and tell. When I visit/see a house I try to understand  a bit about the story of its owner and not only if ...

Few days ago, in The Best 4 Posts of the Week About Mid-Century and Design, I wrote about the FAVN sofa by Jaime Hayon for Fritz Hansen: an Arne Jacobsen inspired sofa ...

After the Villa Mairea -that I published few weeks ago- today I wanna share with you another house that Aalto designed in Finland: Villa Kokkonen. The Mid-Century Villa Kokkonen was designed ...

Some time ago I shared a Mid-Century/Art-Deco/Classic house in Malmö, Sweden. Today, it’s time to come back to Malmö for another stunning house. 😀 (pics via Bolaget) What I really like in ...

This house is in one of the nicest Malmö streets -Sweden- and is a magnificent example of early XX Century Scandinavian design. More than the furnishings, even if I spotted ...

Marcel Breuer The Hungarian architect and designer Marcel Breuer has been one of the most important and influential architects and designers of the 30s-50s. Breuer studied and, later, taught at the ...

This one is not only a nice, uncluttered, well organized, mid century modern apartment: this is THE real mid century modern home! 😀

What I really like in this mid century modern apartment is the great use of colors and the rooms in a row; typical of 50s apartments in my city in ...

This house tour is a little bit more inspiring than usual: double inspiring 😉 The actual owner Beth, with her boyfriend, is the daughter of the previous owners This house has been published ...

In the December issue of my favorite magazine, Case Da Abitare, I found this amazing house tour.