Newport Modern, Estate of the Day
Today's home is an interesting study, a modern home that seems to be currently owned by people not entirely in tune with the modern design scheme. The Newport, RI home was built in 1991 in the International Style of Le Corbusier and has views of the ocean and Narragansett Bay from the rooftop deck. The lower floors offer large entertaining area and private bedroom suites. The top floor includes a second kitchen and seating area. The space is very interesting but the current owners have decorated it with a pastiche of styles, part beach house, part traditional New England and, here and there, a nod to the house's structure with pieces like a Le Corbusier chair (albeit paired with a worn Oriental rug). . It is listed at $2.1 million. After the jump, a dining table that would look wonderful in a classic house but looks out of place here.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Anonymous Jun 18th 2007 9:12PM
Ugh, those kitchen cabinets are hideous.
MBE Jun 19th 2007 12:58AM
Overall it's just not appealing. Nothing comes together to make it look like anything but a shelter to keep the rain away. I wouldn't even want to stay there overnight.
Hope they get a buyer who has their tastes.
JW-C Jun 19th 2007 9:32AM
I think Estate of the Day needs to be taken over by someone else. Perhaps Sandy Maple if she's interested. Her design aesthetic seems to be quite eclectic and overall really interesting.
There's a big, wide world out there with property's from all four corners that would make fabulous Estates of the Day. It seems like there's an endless amount of mundane, uninspired property's that are bought to our attention.
arcsine Jun 19th 2007 10:20AM
This is totally the house from Beetlejuice.
Rob Jun 19th 2007 11:22AM
Uh, looks to me as though Newport is building bunkers to protect against the next Nazi invasion???
Maria Salsberg Jun 23rd 2007 7:28PM
The front of this house resembles nothing short of some sort of detention center, being virtually windowless. The back of the house is nice and open, and the view from the rooftop, as described, must be spectacular.
BUT, the kitchen decor is just so uninspired and BORING. It needs to be gutted and redone from top to bottom.
And the furnishings! Except for the Oriental armoire in the last picture, and maybe the white leather ottomans and the comfy looking white couch which could be used in the family room, I guess, all of the rest of the furnishings must go. The coffee table is horrendous, and the grey leather couch may be a "good" couch, but it looks uncomfortable (at least the matching chair looks terribly confining). If its such great furniture that it should be held on to, then at the very least, re-upholster it in red leather, or anything else that doesn't look so institutional.
I would also enlarge and add some architectural drama to the fireplace. Currently, it is small and so inconsequential in appearance that it all but disappears.
And I guess that the bathrooms weren't even worth photographing. What a shame.
MTS