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At The Rockwell House in Olympia Fields, Walter Gropius’s TAC collection meets the Brutalist architecture of H. P. Davis Rockwell in a refined dialogue of form, material, and memory.
Located in the Chicago metropolitan area, the Rockwell House stands as one of the rare residential examples of Modernist Brutalism in the United States. Designed in 1964 by architect H. P. Davis Rockwell, a pupil of Mies van der Rohe, the house is built in a delicate balance of concrete and glass, light and materials coexisting in perfect harmony.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the residence remains a landmark for those exploring the evolution of American Modernism.
During the recent Modern Picnic, guests were welcomed into an atmosphere suspended between past and present. The home, a manifesto of Modernist Brutalism, became the backdrop for a table setting that amplified its architectural language.
At the center stood an original LC6 table — designed in 1928 by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand — elegantly set for two with Rosenthal’s TAC collection (The Architects Collaborative), created by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius.
Minimal yet harmonious, the table embodied the “less, but better” philosophy. Pure lines, honest materials, and a palette of soft greys recalled the concrete roof of Rosenthal’s factory in Selb, designed by Gropius in 1963 and completed in 1967.
Every element — from the natural light filtered through the glass walls to the smooth curves of the porcelain — paid tribute to the enduring principle that form follows function.
The setting revealed how design and architecture can share a single language: one of proportion, materiality, and visual coherence.
Created in 1969, the TAC collection remains one of Gropius’s most iconic designs.
Awarded the iF Design Award in 1970 and part of the permanent collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris since 1992, it represents the perfect synthesis of functional rigor and artistic sensitivity.At the end of the day, guests of the Modern Picnic were gifted a TAC “Struktur” plate, specially boxed in collaboration with Mohd as a symbolic gesture of sharing.
An object rich in meaning — uniting the strength of concrete with the delicacy of porcelain — it embodies Modernism as a timeless dialogue between past and present.
