Architecture as Art
Frank Gehry’s Schnabel House in Brentwood, CA, chosen by Living Architecture as one of the 20 Greatest American Houses of the 20th Century, is on sale through our Christie’s International Real Estate Affiliate in Los Angeles, for $13 million. The photos tell the story, and you can enjoy more through this link.
The Schnabel House was built in 1989, and purchased in 2006 by Tony-award winning producer Jon Platt (who currently has three productions on Broadway—Wicked, Driving Miss Daisy, and The Book of Mormon). While Gehry is one of the most acclaimed architects of the 20th century, and lives in quite the home himself (see photos of Gehry’s own home here), he’s said of the Schnable House that it was a design that he had “fantasized about for my own house.” Platt, for his part, has modernized Gehry’s original design to include an iPad controlled home system and mechanized skylight system to cool the interior spaces with minimal energy consumption.
