For the Ages

Designed way back when, these six modernist interiors look just as stunning today

Sheila Kim-Jamet -- Interior Design, 3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Spiegel, Hamburg, Germany

DESIGN Verner Panton.

STANDOUT For the canteen of this publishing company, Panton rendered circles and pyramids in a candy-colored palette.

PHOTOGRAPHY Bernadette Grimmenstein/Artur.

Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, Copenhagen

DESIGN Arne Jacobsen.

STANDOUT The great Dane designed this entire building, from the concrete exterior to the restaurant's cutlery and the guest rooms' Egg and Drop chairs.

PHOTOGRAPHY Paul Warchol.

Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote, Spain

DESIGN César Manrique.

STANDOUT Produced by an 18th-century volcanic eruption, five giant lava "bubbles" enclose the living spaces of this artist's house, now a museum.

PHOTOGRAPHY Roland Halbe.

Eglise Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France

DESIGN Le Corbusier and José Oubrerie.

STANDOUT Only partially built when Le Corbusier died, this concrete church completed by his protégé features apertures in the form of the constellation Orion.

PHOTOGRAPHY Jacques Dirand/GigiaMarchiori.

Banco de Londres y América del Sud, Buenos Aires

DESIGN Clorindo Testa and SEPRA.

STANDOUT A brutalist facade is punched out to reveal the glass box behind; inside it, four of the six levels are suspended from the ceiling.

PHOTOGRAPHY Roland Halbe.

A town house, New York

DESIGN Site.

STANDOUT Partially buried in the walls of this 1820's Greek revival house, clothing and furnishings suggest the ghosts of the past.

PHOTOGRAPHY Paul Warchol.