This one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath home in Palm Springs hit the market this past spring for $2.5 million. | Photo by Lance Gerber

Splendid homes worth ogling There were a slew of interior design trends that defined the 2010s, but midcentury modernism is without a doubt one of the most popular. The trend has trickled down to mass-market brands like West Elm, CB2, Target, and Amazon, and its classic appeal shows no signs of fading.
Still, a good Eames chair aside, nothing quite compares to a jaw-dropping midcentury modern building. A wealth of homes from the 1950s and 1960s hit the market in 2019, and we covered them all in our House of the Day column. From untouched time capsules to Frank Lloyd Wright originals, here are our favorites of the year. Marcel Breuer-designed modernist masterpiece

Photo by Jeff Tryon

Marcel Breuer was a Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer that worked under Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and became famous as a champion of the modern movement. In 1949, Breuer designed a model home for an exhibition at New York City?s Museum of Modern Art that focused on modern architecture and the rise of suburban living.
A year later, an advertising executive asked Breuer to recreate the house at scale, on a secluded lot in Princeton, New Jersey. Last May, that four-bedroom, four-bath house?called the Lauck House?went up for sale. With long horizontal lines, the timber-clad home boasts a butterfly roof that dips downwar...