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$1,599,000
Est. payment /mo
2 Beds
3 Baths
1,719 SqFt
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Key Details
Property Type Single Family Home
Sub Type Single Family Residence
Listing Status Active
Purchase Type For Sale
Square Footage 1,719 sqft
Price per Sqft $930
MLS Listing ID CL26875015
Bedrooms 2
Full Baths 3
HOA Y/N No
Year Built 1981
Lot Size 0.347 Acres
Acres 0.347
Property Sub-Type Single Family Residence
Property Description
Frank Gehry :: The Benson House. Before Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall and the landmark works that would define his global career, Frank Gehry was already challenging the conventions of domestic architecture on a hillside in the Calabasas Highlands. Completed in 1981, The Benson House belongs to a pivotal chapter in Gehry's early Los Angeles period, when his residential work became a laboratory for the ideas, materials and spatial experiments that would later transform contemporary architecture. Designed for law professor Robert "Bob" Benson, who famously told Gehry, "Whatever you want to do, we will go for," the house emerged from an extraordinary level of creative trust and became one of Gehry's favorite projects and most personal residential works. Set into a slope, the architecture separates from the hillside to create a moat-like negative space, allowing two distinct vertical volumes to emerge. A vertebrae-like wooden walkway connects the bedroom wing with the living and gathering spaces, creating a daily experience of movement, sequence and spatial discovery. Gehry described the composition as "almost touching," like two stones in a Japanese sculpture. Clad in humble asphalt shingles and grounded by concrete floors, exposed rafters and raw material contrasts, the home reflects Gehry's early language of recontextualized vernacular, California modernism and architecture as sculpture. The residence offers two bedrooms, three bathrooms, a loft workspace and panoramic San Fernando Valley views. Located within the Las Virgenes Unified School District (public school system). Sited on four contiguous lots, each with its own APN, The Benson House is Calabasas Historical Landmark No. 2 and an important early Gehry residence archived at the Getty Research Institute. Early Gehry homes rarely come to market, making this a singular opportunity to own a formative work by one of the most influential architects of our time.
Location
State CA
County Los Angeles
Zoning LCA11*
Interior
Heating Central
Cooling Central Air
Flooring Wood
Fireplaces Type Living Room
Fireplace Yes
Appliance Dishwasher
Laundry Dryer, Washer, Inside
Exterior
Exterior Feature Other
Pool None
View Y/N true
View Canyon, Valley
Total Parking Spaces 4
Private Pool false
Building
Level or Stories Multi/Split
New Construction No
Others
Tax ID 2072016008
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