Living the VilLA NM: A Hard-Core Capitalist's Utopian Retreat

Another weekend, another ad-choked issue of T, a.k.a., The New York Times Style Magazine. The Fall Design issue offers a Nicolai Ouroussoff-guided peek into Dutch architectural firm UNStudio‘s first U.S. project, a weekend house in upstate New York known as VilLA NM. Designed for Russian entrepreneur Leo Tsimmer (“I’m a hard core capitalist,” he tells Ouroussoff, “But I still believe in socialism as a utopia.”) by Ben van Berkel, the house “rest[s] amid a dewy lawn with the coiled energy of a cobra getting ready to strike.”

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