John Lautner’s modernist Garcia House gets landmark makeover

gem, the Garcia House in Los AngelesJohn Lautner’s

Aided by the expertise of architecture firm Marmol Radziner, which oversaw the renovation of Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House in Palm Springs among many other gems of the era, the couple were fully committed to restoring the house to as close to its original state as they could get it. ‘In 2006, they had what I call client design fatigue. They asked me to help bring it to the finish line,’ he adds. ‘The general vibe was leaning towards an earthy luxury sparseness, so we pushed it a bit further towards hyper-disco in the master bedroom with the Lucite bed frame and large-scale pattern rug and fur.’

The tasteful hedonism overflows into the outside, where Lautner’s original design for a pool stands true to form. Almond-shaped, just like the pool at another Lautner great, Silvertop, and built from his sketches that the couple handed over to Marmol Radziner, the pool took four years to complete, due to changing building codes, and ‘just about killed me’, quips McIlwee. ‘It took two years to get a permit.

The dining table, custom-designed by Darren Brown, is surrounded by 1974 Saporiti dining chairs with curved profiles that recall the house’s roofscape. The chandelier is original to the house Aside from the vegetation, which almost cascades in waves down the topography of the site, Sharp also added custom art installations, including selenite gemstone totems that are installed into the bedrock of the site, ‘so the whole property is being charged with protection and positivity’, and a series of oversized planters that line the walkway leading towards the pool. ‘We call them ancient future planters,’ says Sharp.

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