John lautner s silver lake residence on the market for 1 6m new 32 comments completed in 1940 it was the first of three houses the architect designed on the same street.
John lautner house los angeles. This isn t a first time on the market it sold for much less than being asked now back in 1984. The john lautner residence in los angeles. Lautner s reputation was considerably restored by his groundbreaking design for the leonard j. John lautner s sexy wolff residence back on the market asking 6 5m.
The metaphor hints at the building s unique combination of both openness to the outside and its unrestrained modernist sensibility architectural elements that would later come to define. The stone glass and copper cliff climber is a hollywood hills homage to frank lloyd wright s fallingwater. The nonprofit john lautner foundation was created in 1996 to celebrate maintain and protect lautner s work. It s amazing to think that this house was designed and built back in 1940 and it is equally amazing to see the condition it is in.
About the lautner house 1939 john lautner s first solo design in los angeles architectural historian esther mccoy had this to say. The john lautner residence in los angeles california usa. The building which the encyclopædia britannica once called the most modern home built in the world is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design. Wright s 1939 sturges house in brentwood on which lautner worked as construction supervisor will be offered for sale by los angeles modern auctions on sunday.
The chemosphere is a modernist house in los angeles california designed by john lautner in 1960. Amanda hearst a great granddaughter of william randolph hearst and filmmaker joachim rønning have bought the john lautner designed wolff house in hollywood hills west for 5 9 million. It was a marriage between walden pond and douglas aircraft.