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The Walker Guest House was a compact modern beach structure originally built on Sanibel Island, Florida, for Dr. Walter Walker. It was designed in 1952 by Paul Rudolph as an architectural response to Mies van der Rohe ’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson ’s Glass House. [1]
Nov 15, 2019 · A one-of-a-kind offering in Sotheby’s Important Design auction (12 December, New York), the Walker Guest House is as much a kid’s dream toy as it is an architectural feat. Sotheby's spoke to Marina Dayton about her personal connection to the home. DR. WALTER W. WALKER AND HIS WIFE, ELAINE WALKER.
- Stephanie Sporn
Titled “Paul Rudolph and the Dynamic Genius of The Walker Guest House,” it includes views of the house and its setting. On December 12, 2019 the guest house is auctioned in New York City by Sotheby’s at its Important Design auction.
Nov 24, 2019 · designed by paul rudolph, one of america’s most influential architects of the modernist era, the walker guest house will be offered in sotheby’s december auction. the historic project is...
Dec 2, 2019 · Sotheby’s is set to auction the Walker Guest House—alongside other design masterpieces—and it’s expected to sell for anywhere from $700,000 to $1 million. The home, commissioned by the Walker family in 1952, comes complete with original furnishings designed and selected by Rudolph.
- Duncan Nielsen
- News Editor
The Walker Guest House was modern in that it demonstrated Rudolph’s interest in light forms and flowing space, as well as his fondness for technology and for intricate, neatly wrought structural systems, and yet it was traditional in its symmetry and in its purity.
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The house was commissioned by the Minneapolis physician Walter Walker, whose family started what is now the Walker Art Center in that city. Set close to the road, well away from the dunes and water’s edge, the small winter retreat consists of three concentric grids.
