Hollywood Hills Buff & Hensman Approaching Bargain Basement
The house is disappointing and it gets plenty of freeway noise. Not the best Buff & Hensman I have seen. Pool House and Pool are about 40 yards from the house but they are interesting.
Buff & Hensman have done some of my favorite homes in Los Angeles. Add this to the list. Stunning and understated. I love the use of the muted earth tones and aggregate.
Buff & Hensman in Pasadena Designed For Conrad Buff III
Whoever (Kristan Cunningham???) was responsible for the "improvements" (including from what I’ve heard destruction and removal of a built-in sofa designed by Buff) should be sent to design hell
Original Barbie Dreamhouse in Beverlywood Getting Demo'ed
So is my 2000 sq ft Buff and Hensman post and beam on a 20000 sq ft lot with views in Pasadena a tear down? It does need exterior wood work and a roof. What do you think?
Ridiculously Pedigreed Home of the Chandlers Sells for $9.5MM
Pretty great house. As for the kitchen, it’s funny to think about what it might have looked like originally. Strictly functional I’m sure. And Buff probably never stepped a foot in it.
Smooth Mid-Century Pad With Orange Kitchen Asking $949k in Sierra Madre
An exquisite post-and-beam (by Smith, of Buff, Hensman & Smith) went for $845k in Sierra Madre 3 years ago. In contrast, this bland mid-century is a cracker box. The market is in Cuckoo-land.
1958 Post & Beam By Don Hensman Flipping Out In The Hills
There are a lot of backseat drivers on this blog. I pass by this corner house almost every week going up to Ridgemont. They actually did a nice job given what the original house used to look like in the past. For those of you who are Buff and Hensman purists, I think that the pair of architects would actually give you a run for the money. Buff and Hensman actually adapted to modern times, having changed their design scope over the years of their career. So…hike up your faded jeans from 1992 and get with the times. Get a book on Buff and Hensman and see that they didn’t stick with the same concepts for four decades, they actually advanced with modern times.
Touring Space's Buff, Straub & Hensman Reno in San Marino
My parents Walter and Judy Thompson commissioned Buff, Straub & Hensman in 1958 to design our family home at 1030 Canon Drive. What I remember most about living in this home was how dark it was. We had purchased the land from the Kester family who lived behind our lot. The lot included what we called the "block house" which was originally a greenhouse structure and which my mom used as her painting studio.
The exterior front is what I remember most about our home. Originally, the front deck was designed around a couple of pine trees which were mature in the 1950’s. The interior has changed dramatically, but for the better. With all the wood and despite all the glass, the house was dark.
Mom and Dad worked with Sam Maloof to design the furniture for this home. I still have the eight-foot round black walnut dining room table with the eight black leather and black walnut chairs which was the centerpiece for entertaining.
In 1962, Fiesta Pools built the pool which was "L-shaped" with the shallow end near the patio area. From the pictures, I see that this part of the pool has been removed. In 1963, at the urging of the architects, our home was entered in a Southern California architectural competition with some other recently built homes in the area. I remember that our home was selected as the winner of this competition. In 1966, the family room was expanded so that we could have a pool table installed.
Growing up in this home, I remember all the parties my folks used to have. Guests enjoyed the indoor-outdoor flow which was a key factor in the design of 1030 Canon Drive. My folks sold our home in the spring of 1978 to the Dearden family who, as I understand, only lived in the home a short while because it was so dark.
Both of my folks have passed away and, somewhere, in one of several boxes of photographs, I have a few of the original black-and-white photographs taken by a professional photographer, possibly from the Los Angeles Times Sunday "Home" section where our home was featured.