The Fawcett Farm: Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect Call Agent: Crosby Doe 310.428.6755 SaveWright.org: Location: Los Banos, CA Year Designed: 1955 In imagining the ideal setting for living a full, free, and rich life, Frank Lloyd Wright strove for an architecture where: “We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside, and the...
The Tatum Beach House Call Agent: Ilana Gafni 310.779.7497 Crosby Doe 310.428.6755 The Wall Street Journal / Mansion Global: This California Home Will Make You Forget Everything You Know About Traditional Beach Design By E.B. Solomont In the late 1960s, when San Francisco lawyer Frank “Sandy” Tatum and his wife, Barbara, set out to build a family beach home, their vision, for a house that...
Case Study architect Craig Ellwood designed this pavilion-like Pasadena property for the president of the Art Center College of Design in 1965. Don and Sally Kubly tapped Ellwood to design their family home after becoming enraptured with his Case Study designs. The Pasadena home is now offered for sale for the first time via Jacob Matthes of Crosby Doe Associates for...
A Wood-and-Glass Midcentury by Craig Ellwood Lists for the First Time Since 1965 Text by Sarah Buder Read and see more at...
By Lindsay Blake Alabama’s 1992 song “I’m in a Hurry (And Don’t Know Why)” figures prominently in the first episode of the new Hulu original series “The Dropout,” illustrating the insatiable drive of its lead character, disgraced former Silicon Valley CEO Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried). The tune could just as easily apply to the show’s quick journey to the screen, though, from its...
By Dolores Quintana The renovated Craftsman home at 2623 3rd St in Santa Monica, CA sold for slightly over its listed price. John Baldessari originally purchased the single-family, 3 bedroom, two bathroom home, built-in 1903, in 1990 for $660,000. After ten years, the artist sought the design skills of two prominent architects to modernize the house, bringing more light, space, and creative energy...
By Wendy Bowman Though this glassy ’70s structure once doubled as the TV-land residence of Vince Vaughn’s “True Detective” character Frank Semyon — a career criminal looking to go legit — the stunning Topanga retreat, known as the “Von Hagen Residence,” is in reality the longtime home of Vesta Foodservice founder and owner Michael Glick, who picked up the place for nearly $3 million...
By Wendy Bowman Though John Baldessari passed away in early 2020 at age 88, the conceptual artist’s pioneering legacy lives on at the Los Angeles home he occupied for three decades. Significantly updated during Baldessari’s tenure—with more space, light and “creatively exciting” living space—the Craftsman bungalow is now on the market in the coastal Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica,...
By V.L. Hendrickson One of pioneering California architect Richard Neutra’s most notable residences sold last week for $8.75 million. Completed in 1929, the 4,800-square-foot Lovell Health House hit the market for the first time in 60 years in February 2020 for $11.5 million, Mansion Global previously reported. The three-level concrete-and-steel home was built into the hillside in the Los Feliz...
After more than one and a half years on the market with an asking price that was initially closely guarded and later revealed to be $11.5 million, Viennese architect Richard Neutra’s iconic Lovell Health House, in L.A.’s Los Feliz neighborhood, has been sold for $8.75 million. It was revealed in a recent article in The New Yorker that Swiss “art-world potentates” Iwan and Manuela Wirth are...