An Interior Designer’s look @
New Canaan, Connecticut.
MW Interiors
Bedford Village is the Home of Margaret Wilson Interior Design
Margaret Wilson Interior Design is located at the heart of Bedford Village.
Here’s what we love about New Canaan!
About New Canaan
New Canaan is known for its wide range of architecture, as well as vast public parks such as Waveny Park, and a signature town center with classic boutiques. Residents carol on Church Hill every Christmas Eve, a town tradition since 1916.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Canaan,_Connecticut
The "Harvard Five" and modern homes New Canaan was an important center of the modern design movement from the late 1940s through roughly the 1960s, when about 80 modern homes were built in town. About 20 have been torn down since then.
"During the late 1940s and 50s, a group of students and teachers from the Harvard Graduate School of Design migrated to New Canaan ... and rocked the world of architectural design", according to an article in PureContemporary.com, an online architecture design magazine. "Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John M. Johansen and Eliot Noyes – known as the Harvard Five – began creating homes in a style that emerged as the complete antithesis of the traditional build. Using new materials and open floor plans, best captured by Johnson's Glass House, these treasures are being squandered as buyers are knocking down these architectural icons and replacing them with cookie-cutter new builds."
https://theglasshouse.org/ Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, with its perfect proportions and its simplicity, is considered one of the first most brilliant works of modern architecture. Johnson built the 47-acre estate for himself in New Canaan, Connecticut. The house was the first of fourteen structures that the architect built on the property over span of fifty years.
https://www.archdaily.com/60259/ad-classics-the-glass-house-philip-johnson
The New Canaan Checklist
Hampton Inn – 179 Oenoke Ridge; also known as The Maples Inn, it was built by the Elwood brothers in Queen Anne, Colonial Revival style.
Hanford Davenport House – 353 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, Ct.
John Rogers Studio – 33 Oenoke Ridge; built in 1878 by John Rogers, who was called "the people's sculptor" in the later 19th century. The studio houses a collection of the artist's famous groups of statuary, many sculpted on site. The studio was closed during needed restoration and scheduled to reopen in the summer of 2006. "He used this studio from 1876 to the end of his life. The John Rogers studio houses one of the finest collections of Rogers Groups in the nation."
Landis Gores House – 192 Cross Ridge Rd. "With its flat-roofed single-story form, full-height glass walls, and emphasis on horizontal planes, the house he designed for himself in New Canaan is an outstanding example" of modernist architecture.
Maxwell E. Perkins House – 63 Park St.
Philip Johnson Glass House – 798–856 Ponus Ridge Rd.
Richard and Geraldine Hodgson House – 881 Ponus Ridge Rd.
