Listed for $6.3 million by Jen Caskey of the Jen Caskey Group, 133 31st Street in Hermosa Beach, is made even more valuable when one considers it is Kim Komick’s vision.
The architect’s 1938 “Dream House” design for Life Magazine, this now-rentable construction is a striking example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s democratic Usonian vision—if not its ideal.
Restored to a handsome sheen at the hand of top designer Martin Kemp, the St. James’s Townhouse marks another noteworthy turn for the touted tastemaker, whose eponymous London-based design studio Martin Kemp Design crafts sophisticated and highly private town-and-country interiors.
With the clean lines of a modern aesthetic balanced with the warmth of traditional style, Palisades Ranch is a characteristically sunny Southern California house designed by a quintessential California architect, William Hefner.
Tainaron Blue Retreat is quite literally a hotel for the ages. Lovely and romantic, it is infused with ancient myth and has patinaed with time.
There is a lot of glitter over Hollywood Hills West. A residential berth in this high-profile enclave is coveted for, among other incentives, the convenience of its central location and astonishing views. That, plus uncommon privacy and expanse of flat land makes 2727 Cardwell Place a prize in an unquestionable trophy neighborhood.
Finished in 1989, an often aesthetically garish era, the Neuendorf House was destined to stand out, a work of committed minimalism by the now lionized architects John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin.
A showpiece on stilts in Sherman Oaks, 3707 Oakfield Drive is a house of considerable architectural stock, a Platform House originally designed by Austrian-American modernist Richard Neutra, who was especially prolific in Los Angeles.
That these clean-angled constructions are strenuously minimalist makes them more interesting and dynamic than one expects to find in a gated community. Robustly walled, but not walled off from the world, Abraham Cota Paredes’ Natura House is a bold rethink of privacy.
Isla del Rey in Menorca, Spain, a decommissioned naval hospital established by the English in 1711 is now a contemporary art center for Hauser & Wirth with gleaming-white galleries, artfully drawn gardens, a nautically touched restaurant and a craft-filled gallery shop.
Located on the historic, 5-acre La Mesa farming fields, flanked by cacti forests and backdropped by the Sierra Laguna Mountains, Paradero Todos Santos is an 80 percent landscape project, with a vast, 100,000-square-foot botanical garden by Mexico-based practice POLEN at its heart.
Federal House makes good on Edition Office’s commitment to sustainability. Relying on cross-flow ventilation as a cooling mechanism rather than air conditioning, the highly insulated home thrives in sub-tropical temps.
