Forest Hills, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 13th 2008 at 1:02PM

The architect Travis Price has created some truly extraordinary structures (check out Wade Davis's writing studio on the website, it's stunning) but I'm not sure if today's home is one of his greater creations. This 11,000-square-foot, six-bedroom home in the Forest Hills area of Washington D.C.has four stories and an open and angular floor plan. The home is dramatic but still appears to be comfortable and livable with large shared rooms but also plenty of private spaces. The listing blurb invokes Frank Lloyd Wright but I'm not really seeing that here. It is listed at $5.495 million.

Gallery: Forest Hills

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John Feb 13th 2008 4:26PM

This "thing" plagiarizes LLoyd's Prairie Style, or tries to, but with way too many sharp modern angles,ultra bright color scheme and none of the warmth that the Master put in his originals.

melissa galt Feb 14th 2008 9:31AM

As Frank Lloyd Wright's great granddaughter and an interior designer, I can clearly see the Wright Prairie style evoked in this exterior architecture. It is a bit of a caricature, but still has elements obvious to great grandfather's inspiration. Once inside however it goes more uultra modern with the screaming white walls and swiss cheesed ceiling. It feels a lot like a public gallery rather than a private home. The interior furnishings are nothing short of disastrous. This home will sell faster if either emptied or staged with appropriate furnishings, this is world's colliding!

eric bonwit Feb 14th 2008 9:48AM

I don't think there is a "Forest Hills" section of D.C. The realtor.com listing indicates that this is the name of the subdivision that the house is located in. Also, that listing has it at 10,000 sq. ft., rather than 11,000.