Dennis Blair's Schell House - A Mid-Century Modern Masterpiece For Sale
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2018
- To those discerning few who refuse to settle: That perfect home you’ve been searching for is real. One that combines style, elegance, sophistication, space, modern convenience, proximity to everyday needs - in a top-rated school district, of course - and serenity to melt away life's pesky requirements in a setting of natural beauty. Wrapped up in an uncompromising, exquisite architectural form that simultaneously takes your breath away and yet feels familiar and comfortable, Dennis Blair’s “Schell House” ticks all the boxes on your Dream Home wish list. It’s a masterpiece symphony of form, materials and siting that offers endless opportunity for relaxation and entertainment. Cantilevered out over the terrain, set among towering oaks, hickory trees and prairie landscape, and adjacent to a 50-acre nature preserve, it’s a personal retreat from the surrounding world, hidden in plain sight and close to everything. This stunning residence must be seen in person to be truly appreciated.
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This is my kind of aesthetic.
The furniture is absolutely classic as well.
What a building! I admire anyone who has worked hard to become wealthy enough to live in such a place. Wow!
Oh. My.
This one hell of a home. And coming from someone who isn't much of a mid-century fan, says a lot.
Outstanding. The greenery even more so.
The kitchen/dining room is amazing. Mid-century vibes yet still contemporary-looking.
A man’s design. Beautiful! The cantelivered features were lovely!
This is an exquisite house Everything is perfect. Nothing is ostentatious, everything is purposeful, fluid and integrated, and cohesive.
La maison est très belle, l'intérieur est vraiment bien agencé, c'est magnifique et sublime☺
This entire house has such a warm and home like feel to it. This is exaclty what a house should be. With no amount of wealth should I want anything more.
Wow, stunning! I had no idea of Chicago could be this beautiful! The landscape is breathtaking.
Chicago "area" not Chicago. Since when has there been so much forest in Chicago?
Beutiful landscapes, that is, what give more value to houses
Beautiful house and combination of colors and tones. Great architecture.
Now this is my kind of home. It puts the tacky glitzy gold drenched homes of the rich & famous to shame. Can you imagine what it would be like to sit in one of these rooms looking out of the window as a mist rolls in among the forest or watching the rain fall, each drop glistening on the leaves of the trees that surround the house or the sun as it casts rays through the foliage in the late afternoons? Or the peace & tranquillity of being surrounded by nature? Or seeing it lit up at night with the soft glow of candles? My idea of heaven without the ego trip. Thanks for the upload.
google map it - do you have to hike in to it and park at the nature center nearby or something? doesn't look like you can actually get to it by vehicle.
@@deb1000001 You fly in on your private helicptor, of course.
You can really see the frank lloyd wright influences here. the renovations were also tastefully done. really beautiful home.
What a magnificent home, it must be a true joy living there. 💕
It looks sad
One of the best features of that home is the natural flora existing at the edge of the structure. As though it fell from the sky and landed in the forest. I hate lawns.
Yeah, the owners put a lot of effort into removing the invasive species and planting native prairie plants so that the property blends seamlessly with the adjacent nature preserve.
Love this home.
Excelente proyecto, perfecto no cambiaría nada.
Blown away by this.
Beautiful home!
This is inspiring as a dream home.
The home of my dream's dream!
Excellent comment. I just may have to plagiarise it some day.
super house! 100% like
I can't believe that is Long Grove, Illinois....that looks like some where in TN, smh, amazing
This is gorgeous.
Wow, beautiful, looks as good as 1959, in fact better. Tasteful period classic furniture frame the rooms too.
Yes, the original owners essentially rebuilt the house in 1999 / 2000 using high-end windows, new doug fir beams and state of the art insulation at the time, plus the addition of 16 large skylights.
Beautiful but well designed functional home must be a joy to live there
It's a joy to even spend any amount of time in the home.
My goodness this is Outstanding 🙆🏼♂️
Beautiful
beautiful home
Magnífico! 🇧🇷👏👍
Undeniably exclusive and beautiful real estate for sale. Congratulations!
Thanks!
Beautiful 🥰
Amazing!!!
I like this house. There's some simplicity and functionality to it.
Fantastic.
OMG， I love this house so much
This is a cool house
Perfection!
1958! Massive was the Mies' influence. I see similarities (influences?) with the Stahl house, which Koenig did later in steel.
By the way Bravo Very nice home in the forest
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I GOTTA HAVE MORE CANTILEVER!
Don't we all...
And cowbell.
This would be my house!👍
Designed in 1958 and yet looks as "modern" as any copycat modern house today. What a visionary.
Modern houses look terrible compared to this for the most part. You can have your turret, give me cantilever!
Wonderful, beautiful, quietly spectacular. Very Japanese in its simplicity. If told it had been built yesterday I would have believed it. Envious of the owners? Sure, how could one not be, just a bit. Whomever you are, good on you. A true refuge from a weary world. Did the student excel the master? Quite possibly so.
If it makes you feel any better, the new owners are both very nice and I believe they'll be excellent stewards of the home :)
In terms of the design period's zeitgeist, FLW and this architect came from vastly different situations.
There were no antecedents of the magnitude that this architect enjoyed for FLW when he was developing the Praire Style that "shook" the world back then.
This architect was privileged to have studied under FLW and was able to follow the concepts started there and expand and refine them.
This house maybe "better" as a result of it's progenitors than Wright's, but without the example of Wright's work, I doubt if it would be likely he would have been able to create this beautiful residence.
Also, tastes have developed to embrace and appreciate this language of design. When this was built, it wasn't considered anywhere as radical as FLW's when his were being built.
You liked it "better" than FLW's "modern architecture" partly due to the factor of your being more comfortable and familiar with this evolution of style.
And don't forget, this home was recently updated and "tweaked".
I also like this home very much!
Thanks for the posting.
good stuff!
Hi. Super home 🏠
I'm going to purchase this home.
It did sell (I got it sold before it officially hit the market) but there's always next time!
Home like this, off the grid with Green sustainable features and more atriums lol.
Looks like Cameron’s house from Ferris Bueller’s day off, minus one Ferrari which is in the woods somewhere
minus the EMU emulator II keyboard which was hi-tech and very expensive back then....
Let my Cameron go.
This is one of the most beautiful hoes I've ever seen. I love the natural look of the landscaping. It's exactly the aesthetic I'd go for if I was designing my dream house.
There were a few very disappointed potential buyers who didn't get the house who felt exactly the same way!
I love hoes too....
Pure Minimalist Class!!!!! BEAUTIFUL
Thanks Henri! Are you related to William? :)
@@TheModernHomeShow Hi, no, not related to any William, that I know of :)
@@henripereira7253 Had to ask of course...brilliant architect!
@@TheModernHomeShow Wow, just been reading up on him, thank you for educating me.
I wish I could afford to buy it...Lol
Reminds me of Cameron's house in Ferris Buller.
That house (from Ferris Bueller) is about 30 minutes away from this one
I love the mid century style of this house. And I see many such examples here in L.A. and Palm Springs. But I'm puzzled as to how you can possibly heat a house with all that glass during a Chicago winter?
Same way you cool a house in Palm Springs during 110+ degree weather :) Insulation and good HVAC go a long way. Plus all of our windows here are insulated, and this house was essentially rebuilt in 1999-2000, using high-end windows and insulation for that time.
Cách hàng xóm tới 1km ntn mới thích này 😍😍😍
Not quite that far, but still lots of privacy :)
I've seen so many forest fires in the news this year, I cant stop thinking of a situation like that when living here 👩🏾🚒
Ha, forest fires aren't an issue around here. They have to start them on purpose from time to time to clear out dead trees (controlled burns).
Luxury
In the Chicago area? Wow I never would've expected such a beautiful landscape.
Real estate lingo.
@@Underhills The landscape is truly beautiful, regardless of how we phrase it :)
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Every time he says "cantilever" take a sip of Hennessy, you'll be drunk pretty quick!
Sorry, I wasn't trying to get people drunk...it's just sort of "the thing" of the house :)
So knowing that this is a Frank Lloyd style house you could not film entering the house? One of his signature use of entrance ways has to have it constrained then as you walked through the foyer it opened up to a beautiful expanse with the fire place as the main feature.
While Dennis Blair did study with Frank Lloyd Wright briefly, this house wasn't designed by Wright, but by Blair. Blair very much enjoyed having his homes photographed. We simply didn't take a shot of us entering the house (although we could have without an issue). This house didn't have that same setup (entering in a low area to have a more grand space revealed afterward), likely because the Schells didn't want that (I would guess).
When can I move in?
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It is advanced version of falling waters by Frank Lloyd.
There are thousands of nice houses I'll never afford
Maybe you should hire an architect... a really good one is not cheap, but certainly can make affordable homes with nice modern shapes, not just traditional ones.
@@krizannikolas2512 And/or aquire high paying skills to increase earnings and decrease wait time.
Cyph18 that is a way too :)
donnan huggler it seems like the only way to afford what we want is to learn new skills and improve theme.
Depends on where you live. I know for a fact the location i chose is cheap compared to the United States. And the materials are inexpensive. I can easily make a modern house with less than 150,000 dollars.
Imagine you are alone there watching horror movies 😳😳
Looks amazing but I imagine it is always cold.
It really isn't. The house was essentially rebuilt about 20 years ago, so all of the glass and insulation are to high-end modern era standards. Plus, the dual-zone HVAC system uses heat pumps rather than traditional A/C units, so they are efficient and keep the house very comfortable all year long (which is also helped, especially in the summer, by the generous overhangs provided by Mr. Blair's architecture.
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Love it. I lack the discipline to live clutter free, my junk would be all over that house. I bet it comes with an industrial strength leaf blower, for the outside that is.
That's funny--that's the same thing I thought. That would be a LOT of leaves come fall.
Probably has a built in record player for listening to jazz.
That would be even more swanky!
I would utilise the artistic use of shadowing to my advantage. When the sun hits the hallway with high windows, casting a percentage of darkness across the room; I would slip into the shade like Batman. After hours of putting on an attempt at his iconic husky voice while in the darkness and upon stepping out quickly changing to a high pitched voice with an English accent, I would finally draw the curtains. By this point I would have been alone for hours, my family and friends having given up after the third hour of my interchanging pitch and accent. I would clench my fists, build up a criminal level of rage and destroy the room from the inside out.
But then you wouldn't be able to do all of that again!
I’d love to have the blueprints of this house!
As far as I know, the new owners have them. They have, fortunately, stayed with the house across the few times it's sold.
I love mid century homes, and am planning to built. Do you think they can be copied?
@@dantewalston2755 I'm not sure to be honest. Contact me through the Modern Illinois website and we'll talk more offline.
Let’s hope wild fires don’t consume this beauty
We don't have wildfires here...it's too wet :)
The Midwest doesn't have WildFires, there is too much Rain and Snow to produce a climate for WildFires . . .
*cantilevered*
Oh, did I not mention that in the video? ;)
@@the-property-channel haha just once or twice ;) it truly is an amazing property though, I love mid century modern.
@@Restoule Ha, yeah, my wife gave me a hard time about that, too, but it's the theme of the house. And it IS really amazing! Glad you enjoyed seeing it :)
@@the-property-channel Yes, cantilevers were one of Wrights things, and his acolytes picked up on it too. If a building has cantilevered elements, you have to say the word, you can't substitute "hung over," people will get an entirely different idea.
@@deezynar True, I was out with some old college friends last night and missed work today, when the boss asked if everything was okay, I said "yeah, I'm just really cantilevered this morning".
I'll live in this house, but in the Hollywood Hills
Unfortunately at 5x the price ;)
only $1.2M and just outside Chicago
parishm being from Cali, that price blows my mind. This house would be $5M to $15M in the Bay Area, with the range being due to exact location.
@@mineralt So true...even here in the Chicago area, if this house had been on Lake Michigan it'd probably have sold for $5M - $6M.
That would get you cookie cutter cutter suburban house on a 40 foot lot just outside Toronto where a 20 mile commute will take you an an hour and a half on a good day. Even where I live out in cottage country the prices are through the roof.
I've heard that about Toronto, ouch!
@@TheModernHomeShow too bad there aren't any houses along the lakefront in Chicago.
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Where can we check the blueprint of this amazing home?
Unfortunately, I don't have plans for it...sorry!
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如果你说你认为房子很棒，我同意！ (via Google Translate, I said "If you said that you think the house is awesome, I agree!")
Beautiful house. The only problem is it's in Shitcago.
In my country you have to be really rich to buy a house like this
How mach is gonna cost ?
It sold for $1.1 million.
Is this rendered with lumion?
Ha, no, this isn't a rendering. It's a real house and this is real video shot there. Nothing in it is rendered.
built 1959 wow
And then largely rebuilt in 1999-2000!
Many beautiful elements, but he did not add that "sense of shelter" in each of the rooms that humans naturally crave - that feeling of personal protection, like sitting under a tree, or a child building a fort under table ... and that feeling of being hugged by your environment whether your sitting outside or in - something that Wright was a master of.
Having been in the house many times, I respectfully disagree. It's not that it's not there, it's just that it's different than how Wright would have done it.
@@TheModernHomeShow ---Thank you for your reply. When you say "It's not that it's not there," - the "it" that I was referring to was walls, half-walls of shelving perhaps, pillars, varied ceiling heights, etc. Those structural elements that give one that SENSE of protection within a space. The most blatant examples of that being absent in this home are the main living room and the outdoor seating area.
There have been discussions of these design elements in a home as a basic human preference from a psychological perspective, in that it puts people at ease more than the wide open spaces. In the end, of course, one would have to actually live in a space to really know what they would prefer and feel most comfortable in on a daily basis.
@@ifthen4039 - Yes, the "it" I was referring to was the sense of shelter based on where you are in the home. In the living room / media room, the ceiling is higher and there's more glass to make you feel as though you're a part of the nature outside. In the kitchen & dining areas, which are separated from the living room by the granite fireplace stack, the ceiling is a "medium" height and there's less glass, except to see toward the front in case visitors are coming. Otherwise, the only glass is to the south, looking out over the deck to a pond and the trees. In the bedrooms and lower level recreation areas, the ceilings are lower, giving you more of that feeling you're referring to. So again, while I understand what you're referring to, this house does it with zoning rather than by using elements within each space. You're correct that that sense of shelter is absent in the outdoor spaces in this house, however, that was by design as that's what the original owners wanted: To be connected to the home, but "out in the open". The west deck offers privacy as it's 'behind" the house, closest to the nature preserve, and the south deck offers entertaining space that's more welcoming as it's visible from and accessible from the front.
Thank God my architect didnt add that "sense of insecurity space" either.
Drink every time he says "cantilevered"
That the home from ferris bueller??
It's not the same house, but the two homes are about 20 minutes from each other. The house in Ferris Bueller is known as the Ben Rose house (the "house" in the movie was actually the studio, not the home itself) and was designed by A. James Speyer. This house is the Schell House and was designed by Dennis Blair.
Speyer was fond of using exposed steel I-beams in his construction, whereas Blair typically used stone and wood (although this house does have two steel I-beams to support the cantilevered Master Suite).
What if it rains, how about are the furnitures outside?
It's outdoor furniture, so it's fine :)
Stunning. Prefer it to Lloyd Wright.
The only problem is that a house like this only looks good when it's clean and not lived in. For that reason, it must have at least one servant, which makes it not a home but a statement of power.
I was friends with the owners for years before I helped them sell the house. The house always looked spectacular, regardless of whether it was at its most tidy or its most lived-in. But keep in mind that there are plenty of people who simply live an uncluttered lifestyle every day. This is often (but not always) the case with modern homes and the people who live in them. Part of the reason they like the clean lines and visual simplicity of design is because it fits with the way they like to live. The "worst" that I ever saw this house was with a few bins full of work papers on the built-in cabinets in the lower levels, and some normal work stuff on the desks in one of the bedrooms. It never made the house look any less amazing.
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You would go broke trying to keep warm in the winter.
Not true at all...high-end insulated glass and a very efficient heat pump system make the house reasonable to heat and cool.
Cantilever ? Can - to - leave her
Questions for all specialist in the domain of arhcitecture.... Do you know if there is a way to say modern home like this is around 1000usd/sqf base on larg window lot of steel. Base on sqf concret home 50 % concrete 50% window 750$/sqf. It is not easy before drawing to have an idea of budget. I like this stile mixe of big window + steel i like big window + concreate
A lot of it depends on where you're building, so there's no universal answer, unfortunately. My guess is that to build this house today in the same area, you'd be looking at probably $650 - $800 / sf. But if you're talking like something along the lines of homes by John Lautner such as the Elrod house in Palm Springs or the Sheats Goldstein home, you'd probably be talking about quite a bit more, due mostly to the concrete work which would require specialized labor that's very expensive.
@@TheModernHomeShow Do you think if we compare traditionnal home (wood, gips etc) compare to concrate 65 to 75% of the home or metal beam with slab what can be the order price
@@brunocauchon2852 Sorry, but I'm not really qualified to answer that.
@@TheModernHomeShow thank
What will happen to the nice sofas outside when it rains?
They get wet
It's outdoor furniture, with waterproof fabric. Still, I think they typically stored it in the garage during rainy days.
but is it cantilivered?
Hmm, I can't remember...let me go back and check...
what program do you use to design?
The home was designed on paper by hand by Dennis Blair in 1959.
@@TheModernHomeShow But what is the pc program to preview all the work
@@ChrisTianDJM23 To preview what work?
@@TheModernHomeShow sorry, I thought it was rendered in pc program
@@ChrisTianDJM23 Oh, no, it's a video shot at a real house :)
Poor cut floor tile to base of island unit nearest corner - tut tut
Is this for sale?
It was about a year and a half ago but sold immediately.