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Lautner Rowlings Home Restored By LaFetra Featured on the Japanese Architecture Show One x Time: The World Architecture Starring Toru Nakamura.

Koenig Beach Home Designed for LaFetra Featured on the Japanese Architecture Show One x Time: The World Architecture Starring Toru Nakamura.

Lautner Rowlings Home Restored By LaFetra Featured on the Japanese Architecture Show One x Time: The World Architecture Starring Toru Nakamura.

  LaFetra has a special relationship to this house.  While he was growing up his parents would rent a house on the other side of Balboa Island for a few weeks every Summer.

The Sherwood house was a delicate project.  There were originally five different schemes that were developed by the architect so elements from each were re-introduced to the final executed design. 

  The Schnabel House has been on MWL’s “house radar” since 2006 or so. LaFetra is greatly enamored with the work of Frank Gehry and vowed to live and work on the house… Fact Sheet: Photos:

Richard Neutra’s 1949 Millard Kaufman house is located on the South East side of the Santa Monica Mountains, and is adjacent to the Cahuenga Pass.

Lautner’s 1968 Stevens Residence in Malibu California is situated on the sand with views of the ocean and Santa Monica Mountains.

John Lautner’s 1961 Wolff House in Los Angeles California is situated in the Hollywood hills above the Sunset Strip with a view that overlooks West Hollywood, Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles.

  Rex Lotery’s 1960 House in Beverly Hills, is situated below the Santa Monica Mountains, with a private driveway, intimate terraces, a meditation garden, a large swimming pool, and a greenhouse.

Robert Skinner’s house in Idyllwild California is located on 7.04 acres of land with a manmade lake and views of the Idyllwild Mountains and surrounding valleys.

The Wolff House by R.M. Schindler built in Sherman Oaks was commissioned before WWII by Harry J. Wolff. It’s an example of Schindler’s experimentation with “plaster skin houses” during the middle stage of his career and is a rectangular shape one story above the ground with a wooden frame and a plaster coating. 

Paul Williams’s 1929, Copa De Oro House, in Bel Air, is an example of William’s early architectural style for Mediterranean houses that was developed in the 1920’s. Copa De Oro is on a .5-acre lot surrounded by exotic palms with various outdoor courtyards surrounding the property, a pool, and a motor court. The six-bedroom seven- bathroom house is composed of stucco walls, a tiled roof and arched entryways.

  Pierre Koenig’s 1958 Case Study House No. 21 (CSH #21) & CSH # 22 were part of under the Case Study Project, a program initiated by John Entenza, editor and publisher of the Arts and Architecture Magazine, who invited architects and their clients to design and help popularize modern home design.

Ray Kappe’s 1970 Gertler House is situated on a densely populated lot of trees with canyon and treetop views from every angle.

Tucked away from the street, Thornton Abell’s 1967 Rich House emphasizes outdoor living spaces including an amphitheater, outdoor living room, pool and courtyard. Steel magnate Gustav Rich, and his wife Miriam, commissioned Abell to create a house using materials from Mr. Rich’s steel company.

After WWII a group of musicians collaborated with the Cooperative Housing Community in an attempt to create affordable homes for returning soldiers. The community fundraised money to purchase 800 acres of land in the area now known as Crestwood Hills.

  Pierre Koenig designed a house on the sea for Michael, after the two formed a friendship when they renovated Koenig’s Case Study House # 21. The LaFetra Beach House is located on the northern tip of Malibu with according to Pierre Koenig “A view that rivals CSH #22”, and also according to Koenig, is a “rare jewel.”

  R.M. Schindler’s 1925 How House, in Silver Lake, California, is tucked away on a steep lot surrounded by eucalyptus trees.

Ray Kappe’s 1967 Gould LaFetra House was originally pitched by Ray to Entenza for the CSH program but was turned down. With commanding views of Long Beach, Catalina Island and the Pacific Ocean, this three-story, five-bedroom, four-bathroom house was the first house Ray Kappe experimented with laminated beams.