The House That Made Steve Jobs
Most stories about Steve Jobs begin in a garage. This one begins in the room next to it.
In 1959, the Jobs family moved into a single storey home in California. Built by a property developer, Joseph Eichler. Floor-to-ceiling glazing. A flat roof. Pale ceiling beams you could see from any where in the building.
Eichler had a simple, unfashionable idea for the 1950s, centered around refined design. The boy who slept in one of those bedrooms grew up surrounded by it without knowing the word for it.
Years later, he told Walter Isaacson about the house: "I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much. It was the original vision for Apple." If you walk into the house, you will notice how the door frame softens at thecorner. The house that shaped Apple products.
The most influential designer of our time, by his own account, was taught by the house he grew up in. Our founder, Harinder Dhaliwal, read his book in 2019 and was pleased to see an icon of the world so heavily influenced by his parents' home.
It resonates with what Harinder has always believed: a home is more than bricks and mortar. It is the feel of a room when you walk in. It is what you sense. It is the attention to detail, the uplifting feeling of being somewhere you enjoy living.
We believe everybody deserves that. We are here to inspire the lives that will be lived inside the houses we build. (Living room of our development Ardwick Green on the right and at the bottom our soon to be launched Modo House in Springfield Gardens)
“Amazing how a home can influence one person’s vision”
Harinder Dhaliwal
Managing Director, Step Places
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