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The house first hit the market in 2016 for $3.6M The circular Norman Lykes home, Frank Lloyd Wright?s final residential design, has sold at auction for nearly $1.7 million. The Arizona home has been on and off the market since 2016 with an original list price of $3,600,000. The home was most recently listed at $2,985,000.
According to the Associated Press, the winning bid came from an out-of-state resident who competed against 20 other bids at the public auction. The winner wishes to remain anonymous but said that he plans to keep the home intact and use it as a vacation home.
Designed just before Wright?s death in 1959 for Norman and Aimee Lykes, the 3,095-square-foot home was ultimately built in 1967 by apprentice John Rattenbury. The home is an excellent example of the architect?s late-career style?exemplified by the Guggenheim and David and Gladys Wright home?and is most notable for its curving set of concentric circles. Located on a desert plateau in Phoenix?s Palm Canyon, the building looks like a set of intricate clock gears from above.
Wright was inspired by the curves and forms of the surrounding mountains, and the home boasts 180-degree views of the landscape. The interior features curved walls clad in golden hued Philippine mahogany, circular and semicircular windows and other geometric cutouts, custom built-ins, and original Wright-designed furniture.
In 1994, Rattenbury updated the interiors, which origin...