This house was designed by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, for himself and his family in 1937. It's in Lincoln, MA, convenient to Gropius' new position at Harvard. The design was very influential, one of the first American houses in the "International Style". (Gropius hated this term. Indeed he claimed to have incorporated many aspects of traditional New England architecture, that he could not have built this house elsewhere.)
The overall design is very elegant, achieving wonderful effects and a lot of useful space in what is basically a small and inexpensively-built house. Gropius was driven to industrial catalogs to find the clean and modern furnishings he wanted, which later became much more standard.
The house has been restored to the period of Gropius' death in 1969. The interior is very complete, including quite a bit of furniture and artwork from his Bauhaus days, including works by Peter Breuer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
