Comparing architecture to music is quite a clichée, but with this house, considering it was built for jazz musician Russ Garcia, such an allegory isn't too far off.
This above video, featuring Devendra Banhart and his girlfriend, beautifully directed by Lisa Eisner, was made for spectacle-firm Oliver Peoples (you know, American Psycho?). It is set in the Garcia residence, also known as the Rainbow House (which was pulled down by an aussie hillbilly with a mullet and a truck in Lethal Weapon 2) on Mulholland Drive, designed in 1964 by none other the man himself - the master of googie architecture - John Lautner. It is a truly amazing house, and it only gets bettter once you see it's insides and the stunning spaces it posesses.
This above video, featuring Devendra Banhart and his girlfriend, beautifully directed by Lisa Eisner, was made for spectacle-firm Oliver Peoples (you know, American Psycho?). It is set in the Garcia residence, also known as the Rainbow House (which was pulled down by an aussie hillbilly with a mullet and a truck in Lethal Weapon 2) on Mulholland Drive, designed in 1964 by none other the man himself - the master of googie architecture - John Lautner. It is a truly amazing house, and it only gets bettter once you see it's insides and the stunning spaces it posesses.
The house had seen it's best days, and at the turn of the millenia, countless "improvements" had wrecked the soul of the house, but its current owners has however had it renovated by architects Marmol & Radziner, who also worked on the restoration of Richard Neutra's Kaufmann house, and the decorator, Darren Brown, put that old-school playboy-feel to the interiors.
The binuclear floorplan of the building is as genius as it is original, and I cannot help to wonder why it hasn't been more widely copied. On the one side of the house exists the private sphere: bedrooms, bathrooms, an office and a movie room - spaces that do not demand the grand volume of the great room, situated in the other wing, along with an elevated dining area and a open kitchen. When it in 2002 came on the market, it did so at the bargain price of $1,395,000.
Lautner var en djärv typ....och man får alltid känslan att han hatade att upprepa sig!? För det var inga lätta hus han skapade. Tredje bilden säger en del om hans djärvhet, och att han troligen kunde en del om ingenjörskonsten? Det här sopar mattan med 99% av dagen "moderna hus".
ReplyDeleteGenialt! Jättefin plan och fantastiskt tak i alla rum. Att det ligger där det ligger gör det inte på något sätt sämre.
ReplyDeleteJulio du har rätt, man blir alltid överraskad, samtidigt som det aldrig är innovation för innovationens skull, det är alltid mycket funktionellt, vilket detta är ett bra exempel på.
ReplyDeleteHar för mig att jag läst att hans djärva strukturer ofta fick problem med byggnadsdepartementet, särskilt eftersom han själv inte var utbildad arkitekt. Chemosphere-en möttes t.ex. med sådan skepsis, men det visade sig att det är kanske det mest stabila och säkra huset i LA.
Rävjägarn: Den genialiska planeringen är något av en uppenbarelse när man väl studerar den, man förväntar sig verkligen inte ett sådant funktionellt hus. Och platsen, ja, hur säger man? Location, location, location...