A modernist house in Winnetka that an eminent Chicago architect designed for himself and his family in the early 1970s sold quickly, and for more than his heirs were asking for it.
Designed by Joseph Fujikawa, the four-bedroom, 3,400-square-foot house on Fairview Avenue sold this afternoon for $765,000, or about five percent above the asking price, $725,000.
The house presents an austere brick and glass face to the street, but in the back, it’s a two-story wall of glass facing the yard.The interior is minimalist. The living room’s primary decorative finish is a row of wood cabinet doors above a fireplace and a concrete sill that doubles as a bench and shelf.
The house “is in the Mies van der Rohe vein,” said James Faircloth, the @properties agent who represented the buyers, “and that’s what they wanted. They had been shopping for mid-century modern houses for some time and were ready to pounce when the right one came on the market, he said.
On the first day that listing agent Janet Karabas of Coldwell Banker had it open for showings, “we showed up half an hour before her, with an offer in my back pocket,” Faircloth said.
The house was under contract to Faircloth’s buyers two days after it went on the market. Karabas said there were multiple offers, but she declined to say how many.
Faircloth declined to name the buyers and said they declined to comment. Their names do not yet appear in public records.
“They like it just as it is,” Faircloth said, “but it needs some freshening up,” such as buffing the terrazzo floors and installing new appliances, before they move in. That will be sometime in the spring, Faircloth said.
Fujikawa was a Californian who studied architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology in the 1940s and 1950s under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and then spent worked in Mies’ Chicago firm, becoming a partner.
After Mies’ death in 1969, Fujikawa was a partner in the successor firm, Fujikawa Conterato Lohan Associates. In the 1980s, Fujikawa founded a new firm, Fujikawa Johnson. Fujikawa contributed to Mies’ Crown Hall at Illinois Tech and other buildings, and his later firm designed the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Wacker Drive, the Metcalfe Federal Building in the Loop and One Illinois Center, among others.
Along with his wife, Grace, and two children, Fujikawa lived in Hyde Park until building this house in about 1971, his son, Steve Fujikawa, told Crain’s before putting the house on the market in October. The architect died in 2004, and Grace Fujikawa died in 2016.
Steve Fujikawa told Crain’s that when the family moved in, he was in high school and didn’t quite apprehend that the house was anything special compared to the Colonials and other traditional-looking homes in the neighborhood. He grew convinced when his friends at New Trier Township High School, about six blocks south, “always told me I lived in the coolest house.”
The house is the latest in a series of mid-century suburban homes to sell quickly this year. Among the others are houses in Riverwoods, in Indian Head Park, and in Chicago Heights.
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