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Beverley Thorne (1924-2017)

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Marc Myers
Dec 08, 2017
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Beverley "David" Thorne, one of the last Case Study architects and the designer of Dave and Iola Brubeck's modernist homes in California and Connecticut, died December 6 in Sonoma, Calif. He was 93. (Photo above of Beverley Thorne, left, with Dave Brubeck and son, Darius, at the newly completed Brubeck house in Oakland in 1954).

Bev's death was confirmed…

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