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Best Properties on the Market: Desert Hot Springs, California This seven-acre estate includes a three-bedroom house, a guest house, and a separate studio. The residence features recycled steel framing, energy-efficient glass, solar-assisted power, and a pool. Crosby Doe - Crosby Doe Associates...

Zen Dens Written by Erika Heet Whether your plans this season include excursions to the snow, the beach, or even the city, your options are more far-reaching than ever. In this month's feature on great escapes (page 36), we offer a selection of new developments, ranging from beach resorts to ski destinations to desert hideaways, and provide you with the tools to choose the locations and amenities...

Verdugo Magazine, Cover Article by Michael Cervin John Lautner once said of Los Angeles that it was a place that made him "physically sick." Not high praise from anyone, much less an architect who eventually set up shop here. Los Angeles became Lautner's home despite himself; it was the base for his practice for 50 years and the place where his modernist designs received both accolades and criticism....

Estates for Sale -Architectural Digests Select Properties  California: Frank Lloyd Wright's Low-Cost High Design   Of La Miniatura, which he built for rare-book dealer Alice Millard in Pasadena, Frank Lloyd Wright once said, "I would rather have built this little house than St. Peter's in Rome." It was an extravagant statement, even for the self-assertive architect, who made the masterpiece (AD,...

Now Viewing | John Lautner - Sarah Verdone - John Lautner apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright, designed Bob Hope's Palm Springs mansion and unwittingly spawned Googie, the futuristic style of Left Coast architecture based on a coffee shop of the same name. For more than 55 years, the architect created dwellings so site-specific they seemed to spring from the Los Angeles hills (the Sheats/Goldstein house)...

If homes were music, John Lautner's designs would be Duke Ellington compositions. The architect, a onetime Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, compared the importance of the jazz composer's use of rests to the significance of the voids in his architecture. Lautner's 1949 Schaffer Residence, set in a wooded area at the foot of the Verdugo Mountains in Glendale, represents the simple, uncluttered look the...

My House is your House Written by JORG HANTZSCHEL California discovers its architectonic heritage - modernistic domiciles are sold to the highest bidder. "If a Picasso is worth 145 million, then this should cost around 30 or 40 million, but it is, in fact, on the market for seven and a half... Crosby Doe, wearing rather daring sunglasses, parks his green Jaguar in front of an imposing gate in a...

It is the house that won new respect for factory-built prefab housing: Leo Marmol's sleek, solar-powered, steel-and-glass Desert House in Desert Hot Springs, Calif. It has been Marmol's weekend house since he built it in 2005, but it is now listed for sale for $1.85 million. The buyer will have a unique home that has been widely praised for its blending of mid-century modern design with...

Starchitecture for a Song Written by Peter Viles A Frank Lloyd Wright for under a million dollars? Yes as long as you're flexible about location.Emotionally battered by the Los Angeles real estate market, where first-time buyers still fight over small tract homes priced at $750,000, Kali Nikitas and her husband all but gave up on homeownership this summer. "The prices of L.A. real estate were...

By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Never mind the Jean Prouve tables and Damien Hirst butterfly paintings. To really be of the moment, why not collect a John Lautner motel in Desert Hot Springs? That is the thinking behind architectureForSale.com, a website offering quality works of architecture on a national and international basis. Real estate websites are a dime a dozen, but AFS, as it is called, comes with...