| | Welcome Villa Trapenard by Rob Mallet Stevens! | This modernist villa is designed by Mallet-Stevens in 1932 for his friend, Jacques Trapenard. It is the only work by Mallet-Stevens to demonstrate Le Corbusier's five points of modern architecture: pilotis, free design of the ground plan, free design of the facade, horizontal windows and a roof garden. The current owners are committed to sharing this gem of 20th Century French heritage to the public.
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| | Last chance! City Icons: Amsterdam, 24-26 May 2024 | Calling all architecture aficionados: There are still a few places on our first City Icons weekend tour! Join us as we explore Amsterdam’s avant-garde homes from the 20th and 21st centuries, and enjoy a fascinating behind-the-scenes experience as we visit exciting privately owned homes not usually open to the public. Inspiration guaranteed, but hurry: first come, first served!
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| | Palm Springs Modernism Week Lecture: 10 Years IH | 'Connecting the Most Significant House Museums of the 20th Century' is the title of this lecture by Natascha Drabbe, Iconic Houses' founder. It’s 10 years now since Iconic Houses was launched and house museum membership has doubled to almost 200 museums worldwide, while the foundation has developed a much broader mission in preservation, knowledge sharing and awareness raising.
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| | IH Exhibition in Villa Tugendhat | Villa Tugendhat is the first destination for the travelling Iconic Houses exhibition, Icons of the Czech Avant-Garde: Authenticity and Stylistic Diversity, after its launch in Prague. The exhibition presents selected gems of Czech modernist architecture that are members of our international Iconic Houses Network, of which Villa Tugendhat in Brno is one of the founding members.
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| | Aluminaire House Grand Opening | Don’t miss the grand opening of the Aluminaire House™, an icon of modernist design by A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey. First seen in 1931 in an exhibition in New York City, and later rebuilt at the New York Institute of Technology, the Aluminaire House is now being reconstructed at the Palm Springs Art Museum where it will become part of the permanent collection, as the gift of the Aluminaire House Foundation.
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| | Volunteer for the Iconic Houses Research Group! | | In some countries, active researchers are using their networks to find potential new modern house museums that meet the criteria to become an affiliated museum of Iconic Houses. Would you enjoy looking for modern museum homes that are not yet part of Iconic Houses? Then join our research group! Contact Natascha Drabbe at ndrabbe@iconichouses.org if you would like to get involved. |
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| | Adopt an Icon at Risk - PLEASE DONATE! | Thanks to your donations, we can add new houses to our Icons at Risk Watch List. 42 icons are already listed, but we have more houses on our radar that need research in order to be published. And we need your support for that. Please donate to help us continue putting these houses in the spotlight to hopefully save them from demolition. Your support means so much to us:
Thank you!
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