Anthony Pearson in the new Dwell Magazine.
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It's a blood shitter!
*These pics are from the architects' site. The actual magazine has a pic of the wall of Waxidermy raer.
*These pics are from the architects' site. The actual magazine has a pic of the wall of Waxidermy raer.
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Most of Lautners work is super ill!
they left out the basement photos of six assistants grinding out auction lists.
Seriously though? His living room/backyard combo is face-melting. One of the most kick ass views I've ever seen in Los Angeles, a 180+ degree vista looking out on the entire LA basin towards the east. Mar Vista is kind of a sleeper neighborhood in that regard - it doesn't have massive hills but the few they do have are completely unobstructed by competing ridges to either the east or west.
True that. My wife wrote a story for the LA Times involving Lautner's Sheats-Goldstein House and got to visit the property during the photo shoot. She said it was pretty fucking crazy (as well James Goldstein who owns the house these days): http://www.flickr.com/photos/daryen/sets/72157620092021778/
More on Goldstein. If you're an NBA fanatic, you've seen him at some point: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/james-goldstein/
Bringing the outdoors into the interior without actually doing it. Opening the whole house to natural ventilation is key.
What a house.
The window-doors are very slick engineering in terms of how they slide into the wall (or maybe they folded? I actually can't remember). But what's so genius about the design (and you can sort of see this in the photos) is that the living room widens as you walk towards the back, thus creating this "frame" effect when you're standing by the front door. After visiting AP's spot, I started thinking about how to create the same effect and to me, the main architectural challenge: no support beams along that whole side of the house. If I recall, AP's house was rebuilt from practically the studs up so they probably found ways to get around not having any vertical beams there but I imagine you can't just walk into any house and knock out an entire 30 foot wall.
The only real downside to the design is just being open to nature; if you don't like bugs in your house, this probably isn't the design for you though maybe AP will make a raer reapparance to share whether ass-burning bugs are infiltrating.
http://www.dwell.com/articles/windows-vista.html
Question AP if you're reading this. Is that a Nanawall or panda doors or something else? Bonelli? Curious what you used.
Also, Is that one of those woven Wegner chairs on the patio? Drool.
GAME OVER KIDS.
Better not show this to my daughter: "hey Daddy, how come there's no carpet and teepee in your record room?"
Must also mention the classy Beemer.
So...I am wondering why the architect or AP had the floors sloped? Or the carpenter is just playing tricks with me on the bottom piece of that glorious record shelf. Thes One mishap? Measure twice, cut once.
mr. burns in deep concentration
Nice house and it warms my heart to know that I amongst other members of the record buying community helped finance it.
your right, garage floors are required by building code to slope away from the house.
A grip of blood shitters
Real sweet crib though. West Hollywood? Sweet.