The southern edge of Los Banos (Merced County), where only dusty roads and distant silos interrupt the endless landscape of tilled Central Valley soil, seems an unlikely place to happen upon the work of America's architectural icon. But past the cattle feedlot and leaning hay barn, deep in a field where winter wheat and cantaloupe mark the seasons, sits a ranch house designed by an aging Frank Lloyd...

Frank Lloyd Wright's La Miniatura, Pasadena Built for Alice Millard in 1923. by Hayley Lerch Frank Lloyd Wright's La Miniatura listed on the National Register of Historic Places sprawls across nearly an acre of gardens in the Prospect historic district of Pasadena, California. The recently restored four-bedroom residence, which straddles a ravine, is the precursor to other homes built in the...

Best Properties on the Market: Palm Springs, California Frank Sinatra commissioned this four bedroom home in 1947 and owned it for 10 years. The residence features en suite bathroom for each bedroom, a fireplace and a heated piano shaped pool. Stephen Skuris, Crosby Doe Associates,...

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...