![]() ![]() Along with Nicholas Satterlee and Francis Donald Lethbridge, Keyes had come to the capital as a naval officer during the war. The firm's initial name was Keyes, Smith, Satterlee & Lethbridge. But the genealogy dates to wartime Washington and back, even, into the New Deal. Keyes's name is linked to the founding of the firm, in 1950, and Condon's to its first major reorganization in 1956. It's a passage worthy of note, encompassing half a century of Washington's architectural history and a good part of the story of modern architecture here. Next fall the firm's lengthy name - Keyes Condon Florance Eichbaum Esocoff King - will be officially shortened by two. Condon, 76, already is listed as emeritus. ![]() "A lot of the people had been here only five years," Keyes said later. The presentation extended through the lunch hour, much longer than planned. This telling image was one of the first in a slide show of early works Keyes and David Condon gave for colleagues a few weeks ago. Visualize the living area of architect Arthur Keyes's Washington house, circa 1950: slightly angled ceiling with inset chrome-plated light fixtures, broad picture windows on two sides, white-painted end wall with floating shelves on metal rods, side chairs by Charles Eames, a lounge chair bent to the body's shape in laminated plywood, gray wall-to-wall carpet, dining table in Scandinavian wood and style, simple brass chandelier hanging like a mobile. ![]()
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