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. Mossler & Doe, Inc., LA Nowhere has the cult of mid-century taking hold as … Continue reading
Meet the Starchitects. With luxury homes valued at $75 million, there?s a new type of namedropping in Hollywood. By Aaron Peasley Hollywood folk have always had their obsessions. From fast cars to expensive art collections, couture fashion, and rock?n?roll; it?s … Continue reading
How To Buy A Masterpiece By Mark Van de Walle From Prairie School to International Style, important 20th?century homes are being snapped up by collectors. “I really didn?t need another one,” says David Zander, recalling his recent decision to buy … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Los Angeles, CA Thom Mayne, who founded his firm Morphosis to surpass the bounds of traditional forms and materials, while also working to carve out a territory beyond the limits of modernism and postmodernism, has been chosen as the 2005 … Continue reading
Prefab, Proven by Allison Arieff – Dwell devoted an issue to prefab homes. Featured projects included a black and white post and beam house in Fox Island, Washington, a high-end penthouse manufactured in Sweden, shipped by boat, and then craned onto … Continue reading
LA Residential by John Arlidge of The Sunday Times.Whoopi Goldberg has one. So do Courteney Cox and Tom Ford, former creative director of Gucci. Leonardo DiCaprio was going to buy one but the Hollywood screenwriter Mitch Glazer outbid him. Orlando … Continue reading
Looking for Modern? Wait in Line. by Kimberly Stevens IF you’re interested in buying a Neutra, Lautner or Schindler in Southern California – or any house designed by a high-profile architect, for that matter – be prepared to stand in … Continue reading
By Sarah Max, CNN/Money senior writer BEND Ore, (CNN/Money) – When money is no object and image is everything, house hunting is no small undertaking. Among circles of the rich and famous, the names of the best real estate agents … Continue reading
HOME OF THE WEEK An indoor-outdoor Neutra, Windows of Opportunity: This Bel-Air home designed by Richard Neutra uses expanses of seamless glass to blend into the outdoors.By Ruth Ryon, Times Staff Writer The indoor-outdoor look so popular in Southern … Continue reading
By Shashank Bengali The real-estate listing was more rapt than usual: “Exceptional classic Paul Williams traditional poised on an amazing 3/4-acre lot in prime Brentwood Park…. Absolutely gorgeous grounds, romantic patios…. True perfection.” Classics don’t age, and Paul Williams-designed homes … Continue reading
This is where I drove my go-cart, Crosby Doe says, turning his champagne-colored Jag down Pasadena’s Hillcrest Avenue on a rolling tour of the posh Oak Knoll district where he grew up. A civilized gent in a stylish blend of … Continue reading