Villa Beer, Josef Frank’s modernist masterpiece reborn

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In 1929, Julius Beer, co-owner of the Berson rubber company, bought a sizeable plot of land in the Viennese neighbourhood of Hietzing and began making plans for an ambitious new home. The Beers, a family of wealthy industrialists, weren’t out of place among the other residents in this affluent corner of the capital. But rather than plumping for one of its many art…