A legendary late architect didn’t simply design this home — he additionally known as it dwelling.
In New Canaan, Connecticut, one in every of Frank Lloyd Wright’s largest residential creations has bought to what will probably be solely its fifth proprietor in nearly seven many years, in response to Mansion Global.
Wright lived there quickly after it was constructed in 1955, whereas he was engaged on Manhattan’s famed Guggenheim Museum.
Named Tirranna, an Australian Aboriginal phrase that means “working waters,” the 7,800-plus-square-foot, horseshoe-shaped home hit the market final Could with an asking worth of $8 million and closed on Monday, lower than eight months later, for $6 million.
Coldwell Banker Realty brokers Marsha Charles and Albert Safdie had the itemizing and consider the sale “is among the highest costs for a Frank Lloyd Wright property,” Safdie instructed Mansion World.
“We had an amazing quantity of curiosity and everybody was rigorously vetted,” he added. “We had many presents.”
Whereas Safdie declined to disclose the patrons’ id, he did describe them as a household from Brooklyn who’re “enormous Frank Lloyd followers” already very acquainted with the property with plans to spend “thousands and thousands of {dollars}” restoring and renovating the 15-room abode.
“They’re shifting in instantly to the visitor home in order that they will supervise the restoration,” Safdie instructed the publication.
Beforehand, it was owned for a few years by the late founding father of collectible-making firm Danbury Mint and his spouse, the late Ted and Vada Stanley.
Positioned on 14 acres of grounds landscaped by the esteemed Japanese-born horticulturist Frank Okamura, the property is ready behind a pink iron gate and boasts seven bedrooms, 8.5 baths, a tennis courtroom, a heated pool, a five-car storage and a telescope-equipped rooftop observatory.
“What actually struck me concerning the property, other than the magnificent personal panorama, is the otherworldly really feel within the home,” Safdie instructed The Submit. “There’s a symphony of sunshine and shadows making a magical really feel all through and a brand new dimension. The home follows the solar very like a sundial.”
