Tickets are 50 each a portion of which will be donated to the john lautner foundation.
Lautner house tour. Lautner s reputation was considerably restored by his groundbreaking design for the leonard j. On sunday february 19 hotel lautner will offer tours of the remodelled desert hot springs motel at 10 am 11 15 am and 12 30 pm. The angular theme of the house is echoed in the. A slideshow of architect john lautner s elrod house in palm springs california.
Ours is a small organization run by volunteer board members. On each tour after the viewing of the buildings we all met up in the club james nightclub for a chill out q and a and discussion about the home and john lautner with james perry alan hess chris carr and harry ernst special guest and master builder of all the concrete work at the goldstein as well as myself rp. John lautner buildings links tour companies. I got to go visit a hollywood hills john lautner house.
It is the first piece of architecture bestowed on the los angeles county museum of art. Visitors will be able to tour two of the units. But his first solo design the house he built for himself and his wife in silver lake in 1940 is much less well known. Malin residence also known as the chemosphere 1960 which has become one of his best known and most influential creations located at 776 torreyson drive los angeles the house was designed for young aerospace engineer leonard malin in 1960 and built by john de la vaux.
What can i say. See more on. Tours of lautner buildings. Help the foundation with the preservation of lautner buildings and with educating the public about the value of these buildings.
Plan a diy architecture tour of l a stopping by these eleven modernist materpiece homes around the region all of which are open to the public. As one of john lautner s most awe inspiring works of architecture the sheats goldstein residence sits hidden in the curvy hills of los angeles and has become an icon on its own. Architect john lautner became known as one of the finest practitioners of what is often called the organic modern style responsible for some of the most famous southern california designs of the twentieth century. 7316 caverna dr well now i can die happy.
Tour john lautner s historic sheats goldstein house.