Khan unsold

Whilst the Neutra Kaufmann house sold for it's lowest estimate of 15 million (no where close to it's high of 25 million) the 1959-1961 Louis Kahn designed ESHERICK HOUSE located in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania failed to reach it's $2-3 million estimate. A relief surely to Mr. and Mrs. Burnap Post who bought the house from from Margaret Esherick in 1964 - after only four years in it ! and sold it in 1981 to a doctor for a sum far far lower than it's estimate.

David Adjaye said of the house "As a student I was always mesmerized by its playful graphic geometry of the windows and the deceptive simplicity of its plan. It was a real surprise to see the care and joy of the materials still very much intact and it being lived in as I’m sure Kahn would have approved. There were two particularly ecstatic moments for me. Firstly was ascending the beautifully crafted, Japanese- or Shaker-esque, staircase with its simple timber balustrade, which overlooks the living room. The second was opening the shutter of the window in the library where knowledge and nature seemed to freeze into one image. The Esherick House is definitely one of Kahn’s most important works which defined lessons he’d go on to use in later projects."