03-20-2008, 12:27 AM
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Tastykake Maker
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: old city
Posts: 465
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Louis Kahn house in Chestnut Hill on the auction block
From NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/ga...tml?ref=garden
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On May 18, the Wright auction house in Chicago, which specializes in 20th-century art and design, will be offering Esherick House in its Important Design sale. Richard Wright, the firm’s president, estimates that it will bring $2 million to $3 million. “Louis Kahn only did three major architectural homes in his career,” Mr. Wright said. “Joe Rosa, the curator of the architectural department at the Art Institute of Chicago, who wrote a book on Louis Kahn, feels that it is his best residential structure.
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