A five-year-old, one-level contemporary home set on a secluded 10.5-acre lot bordered on two sides by a state park.
Along with its garden, designed by Michael van Gessel, a Dutch landscape architect, the house is a tour de force of high-level contemporary Dutch design.
INSIDE: This boxy four-level contemporary was designed by a local architectural firm and built in 2004 on the foundation of what was originally a 1950s ranch.
At the foothills of the Mohonk Mountain House, a custom-built, three-bedroom split-level contemporary home with a great room, fireplace and cedar siding was priced at $375,000.
Modern Haven $1,095,000 NEW JERSEY: 7 Old Quarry Road, Cedar Grove A three-bedroom, two-bath single-level contemporary, designed and built in 1967 by an architect for himself, then meticulously restored by a second owner.
As for a style designation, though, the New Jersey Multiple Listing Service asks agents to choose from a menu of categories: colonial, Cape Cod, bilevel, split-level, contemporary and ranch.
Mr. Robertson said top-level contemporary ink paintings on paper now sold for $20,000 to $100,000, with only a few breakthrough artists achieving surprising sales records in the millions every now and again.
WHAT: Three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath house HOW MUCH: $3,000,000 PER SQUARE FOOT: $1,000 SETTING: Situated above the Pacific Coast Highway with views of the ocean, this 3,000-square-foot 3,000-square-foot 3,000-square-footr beaches.
Writer fell asleep reading them one day and dreamed a dreadful dream - that Split-Level, Raised-Level, Contemporary Early American Ranch-House Igloos in the French Provincial tradition of Early Victorian spacious elegance were sprouting under and all around him, like formica-topped parasol mushrooms with Muzak, hot-and-cold Status, and thirty-year mortgages with sunken suicide clauses..
Even in a top-level contemporary art gallery I might rock up a week or two before the opening and start leaning things against walls and shuffling them around before standing pots on MDF plinths stuck down with museum wax ( My favourite brand is called "Be still my art").
