Richard Meier’s White Castle!

Richard Meier’s White Castle!

Richard Meier's White Castle!

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Taking the color white into the design hot list of style is what architect Richard Meier has been about all of his designing life. Unlike most of us, Meier saw an entire color palette in white walls the same as an artist sees in white clouds. Depending on the ever changing exterior light, white walls are also ever changing in cast shadows and reflections. Meier knew that stark white walls make the perfect backdrop for art, whether it be a painting, an ancient piece of pottery or an exquisitely executed piece of furniture. Not to say that it will equally make one focus more closely on the beauty of an old tool or piece of barn wood. Winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, the most prestigious honor for an architect, Meier has focused on the color white in his abstract art, his architecture and all of his geometric designs. Part of the famous New York Five, made up of important modernist architects, Peter Eisenman (his uncle), Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey and John Hejduk, two of his most famous buildings include the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Now for sale on Long Island is Meier’s White Castle - a residence he designed in 1972 and inspired by Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye. Set on 4.8 acres with pool, tennis court and pond, the 11,000-square-foot home has five bedrooms, eight baths and filled with ever changing light washing over the white walls from skylights and high reaching, multi-story windows. Completely updated, interior rooms include a great room, formal dining, gourmet kitchen, den, studio, workshop, basement utilities and storage and pool cabana. Perfect for the art collector and entertainer.

Pritzker Prize winning architect Richard Meier’s White Castle is now for sale on Long Island. Priced at $11.8 million.

Source: www.danielgale.com