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Tremaine Houses: One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America

Tremaine Houses: One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America

$55.00 at The Getty Museum.

Volker M. Welter From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned approximately thirty architecture and design projects. Richard Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer designed the best-known Tremaine houses; Philip Johnson and Frank Lloyd Wright also created designs and buildings for the family that achieved iconic status in the modern movement. Focusing on the Tremaines’ houses…