According to a listing on Zillow, Jose Oubrerie's visually complex, materially innovative Miller House is now on the market for $550,000. Each room is a study in unusual and exactingly executed detail; cabinets transition seamlessly into L-shaped shelving, while doors become hosts for asymmetrically placed conduits latched with what appears to be matte-finished silver nickel. Vivid bursts of color abruptly appear among otherwise natural-toned wood, from an electric blue wall to a wild red kitchen cabinet.
The effect is something akin to traveling through an architect's unbridled imagination; although the house does possess its own internal logic, the constant visual stimulus delivers perpetual surprise.
The Zillow listing possess a link to a 3D photographic tour of the house, which allows one to get a fuller sense of how the elements interlock, and just how dizzying it is to stride from one floor to another.
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That is pretty spectacular. I'll get my checkbook ;o]
The 3D view tour is helpful to get a sense of all that wonderful detail-- enough detail for about a dozen houses, in my opinion. You'd never be done cleaning and dusting all those reveals and ledges. (You'd need to budget $5,000/year just for swiffers.)
Still... fantastic.
Here is another modern "Miller" house in the Midwest. This one is in Columbus, Indiana, rather than Lexington, Kentucky:
^Eero Saarinen being the architect, of course.
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