Article: MCM in West Vancouver, Canada
Readers hungering for more pictures of this interesting house may eventually come across a page that has many large photos of a number of modernist works by the likes of Scharoun, Schweikher, Dow, Breuer, Tafel, Hillmer and, yes, Mudry, among others.
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And when you're done with that, try the previous page (75) for much more, from Buff & Hensman, to Breuer to Wright -- Parr in Seattle, Lee in Connecticut -- high-res realtor photo sets,
a few of which have come our way already -- and other goodies, foreign and domestic. Check out the unique shot of the living room at Neils, through the big window from the terrace . . .
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a few of which have come our way already -- and other goodies, foreign and domestic. Check out the unique shot of the living room at Neils, through the big window from the terrace . . .
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find: Walter Thomas Brooks - Jorgensen house (or Petal house for the Barr Family?) 1962
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find: Walter Thomas Brooks - Jorgensen house (or Petal house for the Barr Family?) 1962
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Unique shot already gone?SDR wrote:Check out the unique shot of the living room at Neils, through the big window from the terrace . . .
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Thank you, SDR.
But I've seen it before, and a lot more, here: https://tours.spacecrafting.com/n-1vzm
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But I've seen it before, and a lot more, here: https://tours.spacecrafting.com/n-1vzm
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The angled descent into the living room at Neils is reminiscent of that at Manson.


60-degree plan "accidentals" and a 42-inch square grid are the other similarities -- not that the two houses share much else, including decade of conception.
The curious omission of a passage to the ground from the terrace resulted in the wooden "stile" steps we see in the Neils photo I posted -- along with a tidy subsidence of a portion of the terrace slab ?
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60-degree plan "accidentals" and a 42-inch square grid are the other similarities -- not that the two houses share much else, including decade of conception.
The curious omission of a passage to the ground from the terrace resulted in the wooden "stile" steps we see in the Neils photo I posted -- along with a tidy subsidence of a portion of the terrace slab ?
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Neils scale was originally 48" square, altered to 42" for cost considerations. The original plan of Neils was conceived by Howe, and was a tortured thing;
instead of the 120-degree bend, it was 60 degrees between the wings,
and, as I recall the unpublished plan that Geiger (who worked on it for Howe) had in his archive, was closer in feel to the Walter House.
At the time of reviewing the plan before sending it off to Neils, FLW completely redesigned the floor plan to its current layout.
It was on that occasion that he remarked, "Sometimes things get by without benefit of clergy."
Given that the final plan fell out of FLW's shirtsleeve, he may have had the Manson design in mind at the time. They are very similar.
instead of the 120-degree bend, it was 60 degrees between the wings,
and, as I recall the unpublished plan that Geiger (who worked on it for Howe) had in his archive, was closer in feel to the Walter House.
At the time of reviewing the plan before sending it off to Neils, FLW completely redesigned the floor plan to its current layout.
It was on that occasion that he remarked, "Sometimes things get by without benefit of clergy."
Given that the final plan fell out of FLW's shirtsleeve, he may have had the Manson design in mind at the time. They are very similar.
An interesting story about the masonry recounts that it was the only time after the Rookery (after Winslow in a house) that he authorized marble. Neils was in the stone business and specified it from the start.
(Ennis has a marble-floored hallway, but that was an edict from the clients, probably from Mabel. The drawings say shale.)
(Ennis has a marble-floored hallway, but that was an edict from the clients, probably from Mabel. The drawings say shale.)