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Listings: The Hong Residence, Los Feliz If there is a real estate bubble, and it is popping, well, that's going to be a somewhat depressing story to read about every day. And LA Land does not want to be completely depressing, so we mix in items like this one -- our attempt to celebrate the vibrancy of Los Angeles residential architecture and style. The Hong Residence, built in 1968 at 5146 Los...

Houses Today Iconic Homes Clients such as film producer Joel Silver are a firm favourite with realtor Crosby Doe. In 1985, Silver, one of the makers of "Matrix", purchased the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Storer House. He then had the property restored at great expense, and generated a great deal of publicity too: "Joel had so many house parties with so many well-known actors that the house became as...

Written by Hiroyuki Kushida Crosby Doe — A realtor who knows everything about and deals only in modern vintage homes. Over the past few years, we've introduced you to several modern vintage homes for sale in this magazine. All of them are masterpieces that make people that are into this kind of thing drool. So when it comes to this kind of property, I went to visit the only real estate agency you...

Home of the Week: A piece of L.A. history Lloyd Wright design was preserved by the tuneful Newman family. By Ruth Ryon, Times Staff Writer The Alfred Newman musical clan gathered the other day to say their goodbyes to a Pacific Palisades home that has played host to many musicians since it was built in 1948. The house, designed by architect Lloyd Wright (son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright), was the...

Architectural Diamonds Unique homes command premium - if you can make the case. Written by Robert Freeman It's not every market that boasts for-sale homes by architecture luminaries such as Frank Lloyd Wright or Frank Gehry. But in Beverly Hills and parts of Los Angeles, homes by Wright and other architects of national reputation aren't uncommon. And when these homes go on the market, it's often...

Case Study, in duplicate Rodney Walker's landmark House 16 helped to define modern living but then was demolished. Now his sons have brought it back -- twice. Written by Bettijane Levine, Times Staff Writer CRAIG and Bruce Walker live 20 miles apart but awake each morning in nearly identical new hilltop homes, post-and-beam structures with open floor plans and walls of glass. To them, the twin...

Realtor Check International Design Interiors Lifestyle A response to the rising demand of young modernist, architecturally minded real estate agencies are taking off around the world. Nowhere has the cult of mid-century taking hold as strongly as it has in LA and, according to the experts, interest in signature modernist properties has reached intense new heights, with many selling for between 5 and 20...

Meet the Starchitects With luxury homes valued at $75 million, there's a new type of namedropping in Hollywood. Written by Aaron Peasley Hollywood folk have always had their obsessions. From fast cars to expensive art collections, couture fashion, and rock & roll; it's a town with a never-ending hunger for finding the latest thing. Over the past few years an unlikely passion has beset...

How To Buy A Masterpiece From Prairie School to International Style, important 20th-century homes are being snapped up by collectors. By Mark Van de Walle "I really didn't need another one," says David Zander, recalling his recent decision to buy the Schaffer Residence, a redwood-and-glass house in Glendale, California. Designed in 1949 by Frank Lloyd Wright protégé John Lautner. "I mean, it's not...

Vanity photography hits home By Alexandria Abramian-Mott Special to The Times. Photo Credits: Ken Hively(LAT), Art Gray, Gary Friedman(LAT). In the two years since Diane and David Glean purchased their 1960s post-and-beam in Brentwood, practically the only visitors have been a steady stream of restoration specialists. But now that every tile and midcentury sofa is in place, the last specialist has...