{"id":101554,"date":"2018-11-20T16:43:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T09:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/surfs-up-floridas-dazzling-modernist-holiday-homes\/"},"modified":"2018-11-22T19:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:03:39","slug":"surfs-up-floridas-dazzling-modernist-holiday-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/surfs-up-floridas-dazzling-modernist-holiday-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf's up: Florida's dazzling modernist holiday homes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBack in the 50s, architects Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph realised their dreams of airy beach houses for carefree living in Sarasota \u2013 a place now overwhelmed by mega-mansionsA cushioned bench hangs over the water at the end of a wooden deck, projecting from a low timber-framed house that hovers on the edge of a pristine sand-spit. A freshly peeled orange rests on a table and, through an open door, you can make out slender steel-legged furniture silhouetted against the gleaming sand. Casually strewn sandals and a book await the well-leisured occupant, while a rowing boat bobs in the background.This sun-drenched image of a modernist Robinson Crusoe dream was splashed across a full page of the January 1951 issue of Architectural Forum, oozing the postwar promise of free-and-easy indoor-outdoor living that beckoned in the Florida city of Sarasota. Named best house design of the year by the American Institute of Architects in 1948, the tiny Cocoon House was the most distilled vision to date of the architectural practice of Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph, a partnership that had created a buzz around this sleepy beach town with a series of dazzling modernist holiday homes. Continue reading…
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