
"The late High Modernist architect and educator Charles Gwathmey created a body of work defined by playfully bold geometric forms and a spare use of adornment employed with formal elegance. The Yale-trained minimalist began his career in the 1960s creating fantastically unique beach bungalows in the Hamptons and other coastal communities around the Northeast, which are still highly prized today."
"Gwathmey quickly became a favorite with the aesthetically adventurous. He did Faye Dunaway's apartment at the Eldorado in 1969, transformed David Geffen's Fifth Avenue co-op in 1979, and worked with Steven Spielberg several times, including on a six-acre waterside compound in East Hampton. The North Carolina native is, however, probably best known for his meticulous renovation and expansion of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue during the early 1990s."
"About a decade after he completed the Guggenheim overhaul, he set out to design a sprawling loft in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood for his stepson, filmmaker and producer Eric Steel, whose award-winning 2006 documentary, The Bridge, controversially captured several suicides from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Once leased by Ariana Huffington-an arrangement that resulted in a $275,000 lawsuit-Steel last had the loft up for rent in 2023 for a whopping $32,000 per month, according to StreetEasy."
Charles Gwathmey employed playfully bold geometric forms and a spare use of adornment with formal elegance. The Yale-trained minimalist began designing unique beach bungalows in the 1960s that remain highly prized. Major commissions included Faye Dunaway's Eldorado apartment (1969), David Geffen's Fifth Avenue co-op (1979), multiple projects for Steven Spielberg, and a meticulous renovation and expansion of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim on Fifth Avenue in the early 1990s. Around a decade later Gwathmey designed a sprawling Chelsea loft for stepson Eric Steel. The roughly 4,800-square-foot condo retains original design elements, features six huge windows, an oversized pantry, and is listed for $10.5 million.
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