The Korman House

1973: A few months before his death, the architect Louis I. Kahn completed Steven and Toby Korman’s commission to design a six-bedroom house in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

Kahn is renowned for creating some of the world’s great institutional and monumental structures, but throughout his career he thought and spoke about, designed and re-designed many different kinds of dwellings. In the end only nine of his private homes were built, all in the Philadelphia area.

The Korman House represents Kahn’s unconventional and enduring vision of the American country home. Today the house is a year-round home for a second generation of the Korman family.

Jennifer Post Design was selected by Larry Korman in 2013 to re-envision the interior design of his family’s cherished Louis Kahn designed home. The Korman Family has meticulously maintained the architectural vision of Louis Kahn, consulting tightly with the Kahn Archives at University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Post’s design seamlessly integrates with Kahn’s architectural vision.  “I wanted to respect the orange oak” noted Jennifer, “But Larry is very Tom Ford”, which culminated to the total interior vision being grounded in the use of a limited palette of soft neutral tones and natural materials – leather, silk, stone, and bronze – to be timeless, classic, and harmonious with such a notable masterpiece.