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LA BUZZ - House of the month, June/04

SWISS FRENCH ARCHITECT Charles-Edouard' Jeanneret changed his name to Le Corbusier and then changed the way the world looked at buildings."A house is a machine for living in:' he proclaimed in his influential, 1923 tome Towards a New Architecture, eschewing history in favor of a startling new cubic geometry. "He wanted to reduce decoration and celebrate technology:' observes Jan Eric Horn, executive director of Coldwell Banker's Architectural Properties division. And while some criticized Le Corbusier's structures as severe, clinical and ascetic, his designs influenced generations of architects, with disciples still emerging.

Take LA. newcomer and New York Institute of Technology graduate Joseph Vincent Bahan, who recently built his own modernist calling card: a 4,200-square-foot multilevel residence perched on the edge of a ridge at 13365 Mulholland Drive.The contemporary aerie has a two-story living room with floor-to-ceiling glass walls, a master suite and three bedrooms, a workout room, a glass-enclosed elevator and several slate-surfaced terraces.The infinity pool, like the house and its decks, overlooks city lights and distant mountains. Horn and fellow Coldwell Banker agent Beth Styne share the $1.25 million listing.The irony: Le Corbusier turned his back on historicism, but now, says Horn,"modernism is history."

and muted blue. The light-filled space, says listing agent Jan Eric Horn, director of Coldwell Banker's architectural properties division, is not just perfect for art but is "a house that itself is art." DiCaprio checked it out.

Last, there's the elliptical, postmodem residence at 2210 Astral Place in Nichols Canyon. The artsy 10-room, 5,582square-foot bachelor's pad-home of former LACMA senior curator of 20thcentury art Maurice Tuchman-includes built-in tilework "paintings" by L.A. artist Terry Schoonhoven. Tuchman has listed it for lease at $16,000 a month or sale at $3.2 million with Julie Chandler of Coldwell Banker. DiCaprio toured it. (Okay, so we didn't write about this one ... but it's been on our to-do list since December.)

House of the Month

Architect Frank Gehry and many of his disciples enjoy expounding on the concept of an architectural village, with each visual component being part of an assemblage. But it actually took a village, well, almost, to build the unusual multicolored, irregularly shaped house that rises out of a Studio City hillside at 3596 Woodhill Canyon Place. In 1996, just as architect Michael Pearce completed the shell of the 5,873-square-foot late modern house, the property went to the bank. Current owner Robert Seltzer bought the structure for $600,000 and hired architect David Kellen, a fellow Gehry-ite best known for his designs of the restaurants Rockenwagner and Fama, to complete the project. The wall surfaces were finished, fresco-like, with steel-troweled plaster imbued with shades of pink, gray and a muted blue. "We actually took a photograph of the house without color and put it into a computer to choose the exact combinations of color and tones,” Kellen recalls. A fireplace is built into the solid glass wall of the 20-foot high living room. The residence is listed at $3.4 million with Jan Eric Horn, executive director of Coldwell Banker's Architectural Properties Division.

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