Incollect Magazine - Issue 8

84 www.incollect.com A. CONGER GOODYEAR HOUSE, OLD WESTBURY, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK Rees Roberts + Partners collaborated with Steven Harris Architects to bring this modernist masterpiece back to life. Designed in the International Style in 1938 by architect Edward Durell Stone (designer of the original Museum of Modern Art and Radio City Music Hall) for A. Conger Goodyear, a founding member and first president of The Museum of Modern Art, it had fallen into a state of near-ruin and was slated for demolition in the 1990s. After being placed on the World Monuments Fund Watch list, artist Frank Stella, a trustee of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, arranged to have the Foundation purchase the house to protect it from being razed until a permanent owner was found. After passing through several short-term owners, it was sold to RRP’s client, a real estate tycoon with a spectacular collection of blue-chip modern and contemporary art and collectible design. The dining room, with its curved glass walls, retained the original stainless steel pedestal dining table, fitted with a new custom rosewood top. Back in the