More New England With This Fascinating Video Short on Industrial Designer Eliot Noyes, His Home In New Canaan, and His Relationship With Alexander Calder.
Photos from a 1963 Life magazine featuring their New Canaan home. Homeowner and architect Eliot Noyes with son Eli and daughter Derry in the living room. The sculpture over the 11-foot-wide fireplace is by family friend Ray Eames. The flower vase is a Picasso. All Photos by George Silk/Getty Images
A 1963 photo of Noyes burning leaves in the backyard; the mobile in the foreground is by Alexander Calder.
Pioneering architect, designer, and visionary champion for American Modernism, Eliot Noyes is celebrated at Christie’s through his patronage of Alexander Calder. Listen to commentary from Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s, as well as interviews with Fred Noyes, FAIA, son of Eliot Noyes and Gordon Bruce, Industrial Designer and Author of: Eliot Noyes, A Pioneer of Design and Architecture in the Age of American modernism.
This past May the two Noyes’s Calder mobiles went up for auction at Christies. (Both mobiles are featured and discussed in the above video.) Snow Flurry, 1950, fetched $10.4 million and set a new world auction record price for a Calder mobile. The second mobile, Untitled, 1957, fetched $6.4 million. Read the complete story of the Calder Auction at Forbes Magazine.
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As usual, amazing content! Your blog has become my breath of fresh air and an inspiration to stay the course with my own work. Right now, I’m falling in love (again) with Aalto — especially his Tea Trolley #900 and Savoy glass. Do you have something in your archives that will give me an Alvar fix?
Very interesting video. I grew up in that part of Connecticut, and was only really aware of the “Glass House” of Philip Johnson, but I do remember driving on those country roads and having a sense that there was something very special, hidden among those woods.
One note worth mentioning: I’ve never seen nor heard of a house with a flat roof that didn’t have problems with it leaking! Not in that part of the country!