The home’s front façade introduces I. M. Pei’s signature geometry, with bold lines and interlocking forms setting the tone on arrival. (Courtesy)
Growing up in Lewisville, our family took many trips to the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. Few buildings captured my imagination like the one I.M. Pei designed for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The exterior’s interweaving geometric shapes, the expansive interior, and the acoustically pristine concert hall — crowned by what my childlike imagination saw was a spaceship — made every visit as visually pleasurable as what I heard under the baton of then-music director Andrew Litton.
Pei rarely took commissions to design residences, but one of the few he did recently hit the market for $22 million, far surpassing anything else in the local luxury home market. None other than The Wall Street Journal first reported about the 19,000-square-foot home, known locally as the “Tandy house,” that is now officially for sale.
A Historic Tie Between a Lauded Architect and a Leading Fort Worth Family
The home’s ownership by one of Fort Worth’s most notable families is enough to warrant attention. The Tandy family played a quiet but lasting role in shaping modern Fort Worth. Best known for building Tandy Corporation into a national force, the family helped transform the city’s business landscape in the mid-20th century. Under the leadership of Charles D. Tandy, the company expanded from a leather goods operation into a retail powerhouse, eventually acquiring RadioShack and turning Fort Worth into its headquarters…