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Eichler Post & Beam

Joseph Eichler defined post-and-beam construction, open floor plans, and glass that dissolved the edge between a room and its garden. This home, built in the 1960s with architect Claude Oakland, belongs to his rare work beyond the Bay Area, set into the oak-covered hills of Thousand Oaks.

An Eichler Post & Beam living room with Modernica furniture opening onto a garden.

Modernica works from the same instinct, structure expressed rather than concealed. Where Eichler let a post-and-beam frame define a room, Modernica lets a mortise-and-tenon frame define a table, and where his glass walls kept construction legible, pieces like Split Rail set glass above wood so the joinery reads first.

A Modernica glass coffee table and sofa in the Eichler Post & Beam living room.
A Modernica lounge chair in the Eichler Post & Beam living room.
A Modernica sofa beneath a framed screen in the Eichler Post & Beam living room.
A Modernica sofa and coffee table in the Eichler Post & Beam living room.
The back of a Modernica sofa beside the Eichler Post & Beam fireplace.
A Modernica sofa opening toward the garden through the Eichler Post & Beam windows.
A Modernica planter lit beside the brick fireplace in the Eichler Post & Beam house.
Close detail of a Modernica sofa in the Eichler Post & Beam living room.

Throughout the house, pieces from several Modernica collections carry that same premise into different rooms. Spread across the open plan, they don’t furnish the space so much as extend its logic.