Max Hoffman House is a
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...
designed waterfront home in
Rye,
New York built in 1955 for European automobile importer
Max Hoffman
Maximilian Edwin Hoffman (12 November 1904 in Vienna, Austria – 9 August 1981), was an Austrian-born, New York-based importer of luxury European automobiles into the United States during the 1950s.
Known equally for his acumen and influe ...
.
History
Hoffman had commissioned Wright to design the
Hoffman Auto Showroom
The Hoffman Auto Showroom was an automobile dealership at 430 Park Avenue, New York City. Designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for notable European importer Max Hoffman in 1954, the glass and steel space was located on the ground floor of an ...
for his
Jaguar dealership at 430
Park Avenue
Park Avenue is a wide New York City boulevard which carries north and southbound traffic in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. For most of the road's length in Manhattan, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Av ...
in
New York City
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in 1954. The following year, Wright designed a large single-story L-shaped home and garden for the Hoffmans on the shore of North Manursing Island overlooking
Long Island Sound.
The Max Hoffman House was later owned by
Emily Fisher Landeau and Alice and Thomas Tisch. In 2019,
Marc Jacobs acquired the home for $9.18 million.
Design
Constructed of stone, plaster, and slate roof, with a copper-trimmed
fascia, the single-story home sits on a 1.97-acre lot and features a
Japanese-style garden designed by Stephen Morrell, curator of the
John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden in
Locust Valley
Locust Valley is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 3,406 at the 2010 census.
History
The rollin ...
,
New York. In 1972
Taliesin Associated Architects Taliesin Associated Architects was an architectural firm founded by apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright to carry on his architectural vision after his death in 1959. The firm disbanded in 2003.
It was headquartered at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, A ...
built an additional wing to the north. An interior renovation in 1995 was designed by architect Emanuela Frattini Magnusson.
Ownership history
* 1955-1972 Built and expanded for Hoffman
* 1972-1993 Purchased by
Emily Fisher Landau
* 1993–2019 Purchased by Tom & Alice Tisch (son and daughter-in-law of former
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
president and CEO
Laurence Tisch
Laurence Alan Tisch (March 5, 1923 – November 15, 2003) was an American businessman, investor and billionaire. He was the CEO of CBS television network from 1986 to 1995. With his brother Bob Tisch, he was part owner of Loews Corporation. ...
)
* 2019–pres. Purchased by
Marc Jacobs
References
* Storrer, William Allin. ''The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion''. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, (S.390)
External links
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Photo on Arcaid
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Modernist architecture in New York (state)
Houses in Westchester County, New York
Buildings and structures in Rye, New York
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