Frank Gehry’s 1987 Winton Guest House is up for sale to anyone willing to move it from its current location
TEXT BY
TIM MCKEOUGH
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
WRIGHT
Posted February 28, 2015
aerial view of Frank Gehry’s 1987 Winton Guest House
An aerial view of Frank Gehry’s 1987 Winton Guest House, on sale May 19.
On May 19, Chicago-based Wright auction house will offer an opportunity to buy Frank Gehry’s 1987 Winton Guest House, a landmark structure the architect designed for a site on the shores of Minnesota’s Lake Minnetonka. The only catch? The winner will have to move the building to a new location.
The guest house “marks a seminal moment in Gehry’s development,” says Richard Wright, president of Wright. “It’s the first structure that articulates his little village concept—the idea that each room has a unique architectural expression, but that they live together in a balanced composition. It prefigures exactly what he goes on to do in his masterwork in Bilbao.”