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Edgar Kaufmann, a department store magnate who wanted a weekend place for family getaways, had deep pockets, sophisticated taste, experience working with an architect, and, most important ...
It is one of architect Richard Neutra’s best-known homes, a 1946 Modernist glass, steel and stone house on the edge of Palm Springs, Calif. The low-slung house was immortalized by several ...
The house—made of steel, glass, and Utah stone—was built in 1946 by architect Richard Neutra as a desert getaway for Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., a Pittsburgh department store owner and architecture ...
The house on Bear Run is one of Frank Lloyd Wright's crowning achievements. Department store owner Edgar Kaufmann commissioned the great architect to build a house like no other. Fallingwater ...
In researching for this book, Pitz and Schneiderman focused on Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, Sr., the son of Morris Kaufmann. Edgar served as Kaufmann’s president for 42 years. “The thing that Edgar ...
In 1935, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater for the Kaufmann family. Wright also designed Edgar Kaufmann’s office within the department store. Target’s new Pittsburgh store ...
Wright built the home for department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann Sr. in the 1930s. "Brad said he had wanted to experience Fallingwater ever since he took an architectural history course in ...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, built for Edgar Kaufmann in Mill Run, Pa., in 1939, is one of the most famous homes in the world. You can’t live in that museum, but you could live in Water ...