BUCKHEAD LUXURY HOME FOR SALE
This Historic Buckhead Atlanta Luxury Home has a
Unique Architecture and Interior Design Heritage
Rooms with few separating walls give this home an open center
and a dramatic flow of space inside and outdoors
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine, January 15, 1967
By Susan Jones Medlock
Photography by I. C. Lee
When you’re young, you want a home where you can keep one room always “well dressed” for company, said Mrs. Sol Singer.
“But Sol and I wanted another type of house once our children married and moved away. We wanted something wide open, with a free, casual look.”
The Singers’ unusually beautiful tree-studded lot at 3558 Ranier Dr. NW in Atlanta inspired such a house. Mr. and Mrs. Singer got their Architect to bring the picturesque setting inside their home. They wanted a feeling of light and space and serenity, with every possible view of the beauty outside. Mrs. Singer asked for large glass areas, an absolute minimum of separating walls, and a harmonious indoor-outdoor treatment.
Architect Henry Norris designed a striking, contemporary structure that gives the Singers everything they dreamed of–and more. He featured a fantastic area nearly 1000 square feet, where the outside is never lost and pleasant light flows in through the day.
The atrium or garden room, with its cathedral ceiling constructed of a series of skylights in honeycomb plastic, adjoins the living room, where the ceiling also follows the roof line. These rooms, separated only by a T-shaped support created from a laminated beam with a post in the center, actually form one enormous space, unified in structure, textures and decor.
The T-shaped support pattern was repeated at the sliding glass doors which form the back wall of the house and lead from the garden room to a spacious deck. The extra-wide eaves almost shade the entire deck area.
Sol Blumenthal, the Singers’ decorator, helped them choose mellow, comfortable and colorful furnishings that compliment the architecture. These are not consistently modern or traditional, but represent good pieces from all periods, some new to the Singers and others renovated to suit the new Singer home.
Surrounded by magnificent pine trees, the desert sand-colored brick house blends perfectly with its setting. Those same sand-colored bricks used inside, within the combination living room-garden room, heighten the indoor-outdoor illusion. The brick blends beautifully with the rust-colored carpeting in those rooms and harmonizes with the bright floral pattern used on both sofas and shades of cinnamon and rust used in the living room.
This large central area forms the heart of the house. It extends the length of the structure, with all other major rooms opening into it. No walls separate the entrance hall from the living area.
The wall between entry and dining room is sliced red oak stained a walnut tone and inset with vertical panels of old, deeply beveled tinted glass. The entry walls are papered in a flocked, geometric pattern in tones of cinnamon and sand.
The dining room, illuminated by soft cove lighting, features floral draperies in these same shades, Empire chairs covered in striped rust and beige linen, and a crystal chandelier.
The magnificent living room-garden room extends the earthy color scheme, and light floods in from the skylights at both ends of the house to liven the mood.
The living room is not formal, but has dignity and charm. The carved walnut library table behind a cinnamon-toned sofa, a pair of chairs done in patterned cut velvet, and a tall wing chair covered in copper and gray quilted shantung add richness. This handsome furniture is attractively arranged with the raised fireplace on the inside wall as a focal point.
“The gold chairs in the living room were our old host and hostess chairs,” Mrs. Singer said. “We shortened the legs and they fit in fine. We tried to use all out old pieces somewhere. The chairs and desk in our new bedroom were in the living room of our old house.”
The garden room end of the major part of the house features fixed glass panes above the draperies to admit additional light and provide a beautiful view of the treetops. Corresponding windows in the living room are covered by a very sheer Austrian shade which admits light and can be raised for additional views of the trees.
The garden room game table stands beside the sliding doors. Its four chairs, from the dining room of the Singers’ former home, look very effective in their new charcoal leather coverings. The handsome breakfront along a side wall also was renovated, with brass mesh replacing contoured glass and molding.
One side of the garden room opens into the master bedroom and the opposite side opens into the kitchen. These rooms have walls of glass sliding doors with glass fixed panes above the drapery line. The Singers open those draperies to expand the central area still further.
The master bedroom, serene in shades of blues and greens, features floral draperies hung on the atrium side from a wooden pole covered in the same fabric, and a matching bedspread. The dressing room has sliding frosted-glass doors which sparkle with “rainbows” when the sun shines through them. Fixed glass used above the sliding doors brings the outside in, as in other parts of the house. These sliding doors lead to the swimming pool.
The kitchens high step-down counter separates the work area from the breakfast area. This central counter has many advantages. It is high enough to hide “K.P.” activities, and it creates a good traffic pattern for the kitchen. People can circulate on each side.
The counter also contains surface units on one side and an indoor gas grill on the other. The other side of the counter provides hidden storage for china, glass, linen and appliances Mrs. Singer uses in the breakfast area.
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