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The tile floors gave me vertigo! This house is potentially very grand and gracious, as Wallace Neff intended, but a lot of truly ghastly things have been inflicted upon it. I am personally confused by the Louis Quelquechoses chairs in the bathroom… I rarely if ever entertain while I shit or shower, so what’s with the guest seating? Over all, I think this house is in dire need of a Timothy Corrigan intervention. Good taste and a sense of history to te rescue!

Jeff Lewis? This one thinks he is the grand designer or decorator? Well, perhaps if one likes schizophrenic houses. I suspect Wallace Neff would disavow this particular property or send it to the emergency room stat. I can never figure out why folks don’t want to respect or even learn things from the classical houses they purchase. The burning need to imprint it with unsophisticated bad ideas must be a treatable disease. Someone please help this house to find its real identity and gracefully bring it into the 21st century with class.

Not so sure about your history there, #34. All of these "revival" styles are basically Anglo Californiaizations of centuries-old European farmhouse architecture. They were somewhat faddish and "kitschy" at the time of the revival, but the best of these archtiects — Wallace Neff, George Washington Smith — established enduring protoypes.

Monterey is one of the easiest to distinguish because it has much more woodwork than the other Spanish revivial styles, and the home usually has a balcony like the one here in Silver Lake.

@MGRRRR: I totally agree with you. This property at 616 Nimes Road only has a 1.6 acre lot with a nearly 24,000 square foot house, compared to the (384) Delfern (Dr.) property, which sits on 7 acres with a 15,520 square foot house. Those 7 acres in north Holmby are quite a valuable commodity and that’s why it went pending at $75M; not to discount the value of the classic Wallace Neff designed home. The Delfern property sits on 3 parcels, and hopefully as you’ve inferred, will not be sacrificed to subdivision in the name of greed.

Todays "architects" could should stop for a minute, and look what Wallace Neff and others mentioned above achieved. Their understanding of the scale of rooms to their function, attention to architectural details, and beautiful landscaping still hold up 90-yrs. later! Yes, in time everything such as kitchens and bathrooms need updating, but use restraint and respect the original.

As for the ‘Mc-Messes’ being built today, they are the residential equivalent of the strip malls of the 1970’s & 1980’s. One can hope most of them will fall prey to a bulldozer in about 10 years.

This is a gorgeous historic home and property, designed by one of California’s most noted architects, Wallace Neff. It’s in a wonderful area of Pasadena, and one of it’s most famous neighbor’s architecturely, is the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Millard house, "La Minutura". The Millard house also is listed for sale, and these two properties are similarly sized and priced. I guess for the multi-millionaire architectural connoisseur who is looking to buy, it will come down to which syle and school of architecture they prefer.

@Corey J Kessler: Corey, as an architectural historian, I’ll take issue with that assertion. I highly doubt the name "Wallace Neff" is all that well-known to many ‘international ’ buyers, unless it’s been fed to them as a "trophy premium"(i.e., price-enhancer) by their, ahem, local agents. We’ve seem what many ‘inetrnational’ buyers have done — and continue to do — to perfectly fine properties from Beverly Hills to Glendale and back. Pasadena might have a slight edge on having escaped rampant desecration; luckily there are many wonderful Neffs still extant there.

Wallace Neff, anyone? Anyone? Also, it really should be "inspired by Paolo Soleri" considering George Lucas drew inspiration for Tatooine from Arcosanti. News to most of you, I’m sure.

There’s no way these would function as actual low-income housing with all of that wood framing. It simply wouldn’t compete with economies of scale for other prefabrication methods. Facts.

Just stick to your stupid Fascistic minimalist clothing line and working on securing non-profit status for your church so you can build your goddamn Kanyemanjaro or whatever monument you plan to immortalize yourself in, Ye.

Well, the records will tell if this is indeed a Fickett, and it does look like his style. But anything the widda Fickett says that isn’t backed up by actual drawings or other records needs to be double- and triple-checked for accuracy. Her frequent contention that her husband designed the house for Groucho Marx that is WELL-KNOWN to have been the work of Wallace Neff is only one of her most obvious — but oft-repeated, and never challenged — ‘discrepancies’.

@guest #39: I’m sure you were trolling but no. You would be right if this were a nondescript house in the same neighborhood. It isn’t. And you aren’t. If it were a nondescript house, it would be worth 8-10 million. Architecturally significant houses (this one by Wallace Neff) command a premium. It has plans and approved permits for an expansion (2nd guest house). That adds to the price. And right or wrong, some people will pay extra to be able to take a crap in the same bathroom as Madonna, Diane Keaton, et all. It will sell for over 15 million.