A Student of Le Corbusier’s Built this Nutley, New Jersey, House

Design editor Wendy Goodman takes you inside the city’s most exciting homes and design studios. [Design Hunting]( A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman [A Student of Corbu’s in Nutley]( Glenn Mariconda and Asaka Midorikawa’s house was designed by Edward T. Bowser Jr., who had worked with Le Corbusier. Photo: Gross & Daley In 2020, fashion executive Glenn Mariconda and Asaka Midorikawa were looking to move from Brooklyn to a mid-century house outside the city, preferably one that hadn’t been messed up in renovation. Then they drove by this one in a Nutley, New Jersey, neighborhood of mostly starter colonials. It was designed by Edward T. Bowser Jr. “I had never heard of him,” Mariconda says, “and it said that he had worked for Le Corbusier.” They bought the house and set out to find out about the undersung architect. Later in his career, and after the 1967 riots in Newark, he designed Kuzuri Kijiji (Swahili for “a beautiful village”), a low- and middle-income complex in East Orange, before moving to Ghana in the late 1970s, where he helped develop the Akuapem Polytechnic Institute. — Wendy Goodman [TAKE A TOUR]( Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now]( to save over 60% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [An Abstract Painter’s Sprawling Soho Loft Is on the Market Mary Obering, who paid $10,000 in 1971, is selling her Wooster Street home for $5.6 million.]( 2. [Buying at the Lombardy Might Be the Best Deal in New York A 250-square-foot apartment in a 1927 Park Avenue hotel.]( 3. [A Moody $399,000 Cottage in Phoenicia and an Updated Colonial Near Hudson Plus a mid-century charmer with a footbridge.]( 4. [Leave the World Behind’s Apocalyptic Airbnb A modern farmhouse in Old Westbury, Long Island, was just what the design team wanted for the collapse of civilization.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday.]( [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved