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@guest #6: Don’t forget the Getty Villa, Schindler house, Barnsdale house, Gamble House, and now also the Annenberg Beach House (although not a museum and only the guest quarters of a former estate)

Her skill with spatial composition as evidenced by the Roxbury Drive residence is rather sophisticated indeed. I would even venture to say world class. I wonder if she is familiar with the work of the late architect Rudolph Schindler. She may be the first following him to have surpassed him in the mastery of spatial composition……

Schindler could build for cheap and he had a well known habit of over promising on his construction materials, and often had to cut costs on the fly. He was the guy you went to if you wanted modern and couldn’t afford Neutra or Wright.

I’ve seen this house in person. It may not be a Schindler or Neutra, but it’s still a special piece of architecture with great views, details, and feeling. Whoever buys this place is going to feel lucky they did.

That is the one. Thank you! Knowing that now I looked up a photo of the Schindler Buck house online that shows how similar the Neutra room in the second photo is to it. They are so similar it is almost as if the Neutra (which was built later) is a stage set reproduction.

Wow. Seriously. Wow.

You have to place this house in context – what you think is kind of SoCal mid-century ‘normal’ is based on the design of this house (and a couple of others from the same time period). And it wasn’t even mid-century when Schindler built it.

Very far ahead of its time, and it wears its age really well. Having said that, I’m not sure I’d want to live in it, and certainly couldn’t afford the crazy high rent. That’s nearly double my mortgage. But I drool over those floor to ceiling windows.

I hope a Schindler lover with loads of $$ snaps it up.

This house has a bit of an architectural heritage—or at least mythology— which might account for the slightly higher price for this neighborhood. Rumor has it that the original architect on this job was none other than Schindler, but that, as he was known to do, he had an affair with the client’s wife and was fired. When you step back and look at the house from the back yard you can easily see the Schindler modernist lines of the structure. It’s really quite nice. As for the metal awning. There used to be a full awning above that patio, but it was removed after the most recent wind storm. The owners left the frame in place in case a future owner wants to add a new one (it would be cheaper than having to rebuild the entire structure). I know all of this because I am a nosy Franklin Hills neighbor!

Firstly, anyone who was seriously considering buying this house is likely influenced by the Schindler pedigree, and I doubt that the state of the pool would stop them. They would do what any prospective buyer would do – get the house appraised and also get a pool guy to given an estimate of what’s needed to get an functional and attractive pool. Then they would make an offer.
As to the furniture, do a search on "Schindler furniture" and you will see these designs. So the prospective buyer would then decide if their offer includes them or not.
IMHO if would be nice if some of the "peanut gallery" occasionally took the trouble to do quick search on topics, just as Shulius Julman did today.

@hslvr: Thanks for posting an interior photo. Who knows the market any more, but is that a good price if the house has potential short of complete renovation? Phyllis loved those vertical blinds so she lived in the house with them closed, to the gloomy detriment of potential sales, or the "city lights view." Reminds me of a friend pulling a built-in dining room light fixture up and down, thrilled with her 60s house. What is the pattern on the blinds? Does it match the chair? Comes with some furnishings…

If they loved Schindler, is this an example of a buyer not knowing what to do with what they bought or it was their house so they did what they wanted to with it…It will still be a Schindler?

@JoeZekas: "almost all of the torn-down properties in these areas had zero historic value" – I’m gonna call bullshit on that Joe.

Quote: "The report found that 17 houses were deemed "significant" by the Building Review Commission since 2002. Of those, 13 have already come down, two were sold during the wait period, and two are awaiting demolition." – and thats just the ones deemed "significant". who knows how many perfectly decent, fully functional, beautiful homes have been lost to these crap peddlers?

And what about the latest? The Schindler designed "garage" that Heritage Homes is going to plow under for another block of crap?? Its such a shame that the North Shore is rapidly losing its charm to the moneyed egos of tacky newcomers.

link here: http://triblocal.com/wilmette-kenilworth/2012/02/21/cityscapes-prairie-style-house-in-wilmette-has-a-cottage-linked-to-wright-and-schindler-researchers-say/