Sculptured House, Expressionist house in Genesee, United States
The Sculptured House is an expressionist residence in Genesee, Colorado, featuring an elliptical curved structure with floor-to-ceiling windows across five levels that span roughly 7,700 square feet (720 square meters) of living space. The exterior shell combines glass, metal and concrete into a continuous flowing form that appears to emerge from the mountainside like a clamshell.
Architect Charles Deaton built the house in 1963 on an experimental permit, but ran out of money and never lived in it; the interior stayed unfinished for nearly three decades. John Huggins bought it in 1999, added a wing designed with Nick Antonopoulos, and had Deaton's daughter Charlee design the interior, completed in 2003. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 2004.
The house gained fame as the futuristic home in Woody Allen's 1973 comedy Sleeper, and it later appeared on CBS's The 21st Century with Walter Cronkite in 1967, on MTV's Livin' Large in 2003 and Extreme Cribs in 2011, and on HGTV's Home Strange Home in 2012. Its curved profile is also nicknamed the Taco House, Eyelid House and Spaceship House.
The property sits atop Genesee Mountain and offers views of the surrounding area and the city of Denver in the distance. The residence includes five bedrooms and five bathrooms but is privately owned and not normally open to visitors.
Deaton designed the building without drawings or blueprints, shaping the design directly with his hands in clay instead. He reportedly said that the curve is closer to nature than any straight line, which is why he chose the round shape and used no corners at all.
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