About the Lautner House (1939), John Lautner’s first solo design in Los Angeles, architectural historian Esther McCoy had this to say: “it was a marriage between Walden Pond and Douglas Aircraft”. The metaphor hints at the building’s unique combination of both openness to the outside and its unrestrained modernist sensibility— architectural elements that would later come to define Lautner’s unique practice through numerous residences designed over a fifty-year career.

The house, which also served as the architect’s residence, is now for sale for the first time in four decades for an asking price of $1,590,000. It last appeared on the market in 1984, selling then for $175,000. Embracing the steep Silver Lake hill on which it sits, the 1,244 ft2 (115.57 smq) house was built over three levels and overlooks surrounding hills and the city below, offering incredible views through large, wraparound windows.

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