Reese House

Being in the mortgage space, at Blend we decided to name each of our conference rooms after famous homes, then made a series of illustrated prints to hang in each of the corresponding rooms.

Here is a depiction of the Reese House, designed by Andrew Geller in 1957 for Elizabeth Reese. This Long Island beach house was created as Geller began to explore "summer-use playhouses" that were structurally daring and pushed the status quo. Despite a limited budget of $5,000, the home was built with the distinctive A-frame with the idea to be less resistant against hurricane winds. The house was also perched near the highest part of a dune on 10 foot Locust posts to avoid flooding, common in that region of the beach.