Inside the forgotten Neutra home in Los Angeles | Home Tour
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Discovering a forgotten Richard Neutra home is a rare occurrence, but that's precisely what happened when Erik and Dora ventured into a residence quietly circulating off-market in the picturesque Hills off of Mulholland. Stepping inside, they immediately sensed its unique charm, even though it was a blank canvas - rough concrete floors, bare walls, and taken down to the studs. However, the expansive glass walls framing breathtaking valley views ignited a vision that excited Erik and Dora.
Originally designed in 1960 for the renowned screenwriter Stephen Lord, the home took a unique turn in 1961 when Neutra and Stephen parted ways. In a generous gesture, the plans were handed over to Stephen, who proceeded with the construction without Neutra's direct involvement in 1962. The home remained within the Lord family until 2021, when Erik and Dora acquired it and embarked on a thoughtful year-long renovation, preserving any original features that had endured since its purchase.
This transition was significant for the family of four, having lived in a compact 700-square-foot home in Hong Kong for 15 years. Adjusting to their new expansive 3,000+ square-foot abode was a change they are still adapting to. It's a thought-provoking tale of what might have been had the architect duo, Erik and Dora, not stumbled upon this 'Lost' Neutra.
Film - Mick Aure
Producer - Elias Tebache
Photography - Gian Torres
Music - Nature Modena
Special Thanks - Erik Amir & Dora Chi
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Put up a thumbnail of a mid century house, I’ll watch it. Add a 911 to the thumbnail, I’ll definitely watch. Make the 911 a RS, I’ll be watching the timer run down to the release time!
Haha glad you enjoyed it!
Exactly The same thought as I clicked on the video haha
Me three!
Not that awesome
ME
The love for Neutra's mind. It is extraordinary. Extraordinary.
❤️
Ends at 9:11, nice touch.
yet creepy at the same time 😅
@@fajrisalim3414 how so?
@@kgb4187 my imagination only, if actually they had'nt have child 😅, who's shilouette playing the piano
If I was independently wealthy, I would do what these architects did. I would purchase important architectural structures and lovingly restore them.
Architecture has been a life-long passion, and I studied it at USC for a couple of years so this story is near and dear to my heart. Mies van de Rohe, Schindler, Neutra, and even the work done by FLW in Los Angeles are some of my favorites of the 20th century.
beautiful home and restoration/ update. nice Porsche ! Thank you again Open Space team for another great episode.
Our pleasure!
Literally magical.
Yes!
Beautiful entrance and kitchen. 😍
Just beautiful and perfect renovated
Amazing
Amazing, love it 😊
This series just keeps getting better and better. I so look forward to how each home and homeowner's story is portrayed. The cinematography, music, lighting is so wonderfully done. You really give the viewer a sense of what the space feels like. Thank you Elias, Mick, and team for sharing your passion project with all us architecture aficionados and documenting these important residences. Bravo Dora and Erik! What an amazing restoration! So happy you found this very special home and it found you!
Appreciate the kind words! ❤️
"It's very quiet". Hey, we can see the Freeway right there!
I get it, moving from Singapore to mid-west US, we bought a starter home becoz we couldn’t think about living in large sprawling homes. It’s alien. 😂 and the cleaning !!!
Brilliant house and location, (gotta ask, who's grandmother decided to add the ridiculous mermaid statue next to the pool... no doubt there is a collection of painted gnomes in the front garden too.)
Aside feom the horrible fountain in the garden, this house is a paradise!
If they took out the top part and left the bowl structure of the bottom part it would flow better.
Ha! It drives me crazy!!!! Everything else is such perfection. I thought i would scroll down the comments to see if anyone else mentioned it before i dove in....didn't need to scroll far :)
Been in a couple of Neutra houses, incl VDL 2. I had lunch with Raymond Neutra decades ago, who worked at the time for the L.A. County Dept of Health. He refused to be an architect, unlike his brother. I've been in a number of Lautner houses, too; Lautner was a student under FL Wright. Neutra designs are very mid century middle class. His design approach was very different from his contemporaries in L.A.
You did a marvelous restoration here. I am curious the condition you found it in.
Very sad that the Maslon House, in Rancho Mirage, California,( a city with limited preservation understading), designed and built circa 1963, was torn-down in 2002 by people who claimed they were going to protect it. The Maslon House, perfectly preserved by its original, sophisticated art-collecting owners, had so much of the Lord House vibe, and elegance. Sadly many Neutra homes, sitting on uber-prime lots, don't meet the mega-McNansion needs of some people and continue to be an endangered species of architecture.
Agreed!
Unfortunately, that's the reality of selling a house. Sellers well to the first person who makes them an acceptable offer, whether that person gets MCM or not. All it takes is one buyer in a chain of ownership to destroy a work of art. A way to protect a home is to get it on a city register, where changes have to be approved. Such restrictions will limit the buyer pool, however and therefore usually harm it's value. Contrary to popular belief, getting a home listed on the National Register does not protect it from an owner destroying it in any way.
So true. Ayn Rand's Neutra home in the valley was demolished to make room for cardboard condos.
I think Rand's Northridge-area home was originally built for film director Josef Von Sternberg, he discovered Marlene Dietrich. It featured an extra large garage space for his Rolls-Royce!
@@PeterMcDonald-sl9rt Thanks. I did not know.
Stunning. What I wouldn't do to live there... Thanks for including the nighttime views. As a lighting fanatic, I love seeing this!
Big Neutra fan here. Live the structure, but regarding the decor, I need much more textile/fabric around me. I need warm colors too.
Oh.. I LOVE this house! Beautifully thought-out minimalism.
Stunning house and short film, excellent production.
Many thanks!
Dora makes architecture sound like poetry, and Eric’s endearing comments about his family and his dedication to capturing the essence of the original architect made me watch this twice with captions on.
I love your channel, keep up the good work! ❤
Thank you! Will do!
thank you
My dream home!
This one is impeccable, as one would expect from a Neutra. The taste level of the owners is off the charts. I love hiw they aren't pretentious about it, either.
... and yet another Porsche! That long hood 911 is perfect with this house!
This one is top tier subject matter. It doesn't get much more perfect than a Neutra.
And the video is 9:11 long...
@@ScuffleYT That's a perverse detail that I didn't notice 😁😁😁
Love, love, ❤
video duration 9:11 , love it
Great video, super beautiful house but im about to come over and hang all those art works you guys have on the floor lol. What with all the artwork on the floors?
Would have loved to see the camera follow the car into the property from the street to get a better feel of the property and entrance.
I’m betting the Hong Kong location was epic also ;-)
beautiful home! glad they kept so many original features and respected the designer, but the landscaping looks sad! gravel and a couple small plants? this house deserved a richer, lusher, tropical landscape!
Not a good idea in drought country. Plus, it would cover up too much of the house.
all ok and nice, aside big highway running beside the house
WOW
First off, thank you both for sharing one of your passions. The open feeling was truly something. I was really impressed by the contrast that the evening lighting about the house. such a clean design. Second, you're saving this home and keeping it in the essence of its true design. What a thrill to have the prints along with the house. CHEERS
Wonderful house, stunning 911. What else? Great video, thanks for sharing!
it's like an Eichlar on steroids. awesome house.
Amazing home, wish we had a complete tour of the property. Very simple, and beautiful. Love the car, looks like a restomod and very nice. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Pool, views, amazing. Kids must love it!
Love Neutra´s work!...is unique sense of simplicity, elegant and open to outside spaces. great!
"It's very quiet". It's next to fourteen lane freeway - doubt it!
It’s up on a hill not next to the freeway…
@@W.ealth.y Sounds travels uphill - it couldn't be any closer. Have a look on a map. All the drone footage has been very carefully curated.
Did you find it on the map?@@hifiandmtb
Tacky white statue by the pool. Why?
i cant get enough of this house! beautiful
Incredible house. Amazing landscape design. Terrible interior design. So much more could be done with that space in that regard.
Such a wonderful architectural design, the simple elegant lines of the house are timeless.
It really is!
Oddly, I like the front exterior and outdoor area leading up to the front door over the entire interior of the actual home itself.
Quite a bit like the street facade of Mies' Villa Tugendhat
@@kennethbarber438 I agree with you. Speaking of Mies van der Rohe his Farnsworth house is my favorite along with his Barcelona chair.
Lovely home, Los Angeles has so much smog though!
Wonderful house and a very tasteful refurbishing - with one exception: the white statue at the pool 🙈
Agree
My first thought, literally. The water fountain comes second.
all nice aside the big highway running just beside the house
Yet another channel from which @dwell could learn a thing or two. Excellent work, Elias and Mick.
Thank you!!
Que bonito carro me gusta
I manifest a home like this in the name of Jesus Christ Amen ❤
Wow ❤ This One So Beautiful House and Great Views .
I Can Sure Daydream about Living here
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This house is so beautiful. This is how I imagined my future home to be.
Good
The house and vista would be improved hugely if they rolled that kitch statue in garden into the pool. Does not suit the house and distracts massively from the clean lines.
Gorgeous home! I’m curious how quiet it is. She mentioned it but I found it hard to believe it with the 101(I think?) freeway right behind it.
Very cool home. Not sure about the motorway location.
That's a gem of a house. It's a terrible shame that MCM never caught on with the masses. Most people still want to live in the 1700's.
Mid Century Modern is the most sought after style in Palm Springs and a good part of the Coachella Valley.
@@marjoriecohn3868 Palm springs is MCM Heaven. That's an exception, not the rule. There are neighborhoods FULL of MCM homes there and people there GET it. Not so much in other places outside of CA.
I had a gorgeous MCM home in WA and it was next to impossible to sell because the people there are so backward.
That RS!
just had to flex the rs 2.7... or maybe a replica?
Geeeeeshuz. Another amazing story. Great work
Thanks again!
the pool area is like a Hockney`s painting.
You can see at first glance what Neutra is and what is new. The Eams chairs are tasteful, the rest are not. Too much kitsch like the Asian statues. Neutra wouldn't be so happy to see that. But there is nothing better than living in a Neutra house in Los Angeles.
My comment sounds a bit too negative. Of course it's a great home. thank you for showing us. It's always a balancing act to integrate new elements into a classic one. I also understand why you want a new modern kitchen...
The discussion is great regarding architecture for rich and upwardly mobile folks, not to discount the love of rigorous mid-century, just inaccessible to a majority of people. So, in some ways seems more 'show-off' than discussion of what is plausible for the average American.
It’s ironic, bc there were architects like Eichler who created these mid-century modern homes for middle class individuals to live in. As a matter of fact, he did thousands these houses which were essentially like tract homes. It’s sad to see how greed today affects affordable homeownership in beautiful homes like these.
This is so beautiful 🥺 the exterior and outdoor area of the house are so attractive
Was that the house that was in the first ever episode TV movie of columbo
Good question. It would be nice to know.
Beautiful restoration, and still very livable for this family.
Absolutely!
The video started with a Porsche 911 and finished at exactly nine minutes and eleven seconds (9:11)
Good catch! Wonder if that was intentional.
This house looks sparse, and feels very cold. Need more elements to give it maximum effect.
Chill furnishings going on in this one
Looks amazing, well done. Cheers from the fishtank..😂
Beautiful place. Peoof of less is more.
Yes!
Hmmm, obviously beautiful house, but some questionable choices with their refurbishment. The flat line of the roof appears ruined with all the aircon/solar (?), then the mix of Japanese, Euro sculptures. Wish they gave us a schematic of the place. Overall, incredible but wish there was someone there to question some design choices.
With enough Money anyone can create a Paradise for themself.
I would like to see some palm trees of varying specie.
Special respect that the house owner host loves the oldtimer Porsche cars
We're focusing on the, 'spatial experience'.. Have a word with yourself...
We haven’t forgotten.
Sustainability is a crock of shit. I'm tired of hearing about it too. If people are so concerned with sustainability, why is there no push for limiting unrestrained population growth or limiting immigration?
very cool. is it quiet outside? that hwy looks pretty close
With so much sun in Southern California, too bad you didn’t have solar and power walls.
This house is magical!
At 0:26, is the dropped ceiling with recessed pot lights original to the house? I doubt it. It cuts off the wide expansive wood ceiling and looks cheap too. An architect that doesn't know how to control light isn't a great architect, no fault of Neutra's, of course.
Beautiful house.
is that an ikea chair by the pool
"were doing alot of art installatioooooooons" that Californian whine at the end of every word is possibly the most annoying thing on the planet
Isn't this house overlooking the San Diego Freeway??
Beautiful. Reminds me of Twin Palms
Not a Kreisal house.
We need a proper tour
to many things around.
Love it ❤
the AC and ducts kinda ruined it
Amazing Dora And Erik, Fantastic
Wow beautiful house
Just beautiful! This house is beautiful, amazing job!
Glad you like it!
couldn't understand a word the man said, bit of a thick accent but i like where he's coming from, where they're both coming from....that's one cool jetson's era crib. nice
Beautiful structure which they've lovingly restored and made their home. Well done.
Though it's a little ironic to talk about the importance of connecting and interacting with people and not close yourself off when you live on the top of an actual mountain. However, I can relate to the importance of the sentiment.
The cypress are an interesting embellishment too