For today's Daily Gem, we are celebrating architect Richard Neutra and the Kaufmann House built in 1946 in Palm Springs, CA. Neutra, the Rudolph Schindler colleague who designed a colony of homes in Silver Lake, including his own, saved his finest flat-roofed creation for Palm Springs, at least according to our panel. "Horizontal planes resting on horizontal planes hover over transparent walls," is the way historian Esther McCoy summed up the Kaufmann House. It was built as a winter home for the same family that hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design his signature Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. "What makes the house so interesting," panelist Linda Dishman said, "is the way it relates to the desert, the marriage of the pool to the house, which is appropriate for the desert. And it takes advantage of the desert light, especially the winter light." Comparing it to Fallingwater, Dishman said, "Both houses, considering they were built for a wealthy family, are intimate spaces, not grand, but places to live."
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