“Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?” wrote J. M. Barrie. Now you don’t have to choose.
The Iconic Houses network, home to nearly 200 20th-century-design houses open to the public, proposes overnight or weekly stays in private residences that storied architects made for their own families or notable clients. Dutchwoman Natascha Drabbe, who founded the thriving network and whose own Iconic House—the Van Schijndel House in Utrecht, Netherlands, designed by Mart van Schijndel—was the inspiration for setting it up, deftly manages “the tricky part if you work with homeowners who are not museums.”
