Carling House

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The Carling House is a residential building built in 1947 by John Lautner in Los Angeles, USA .

location

The Carling House is located in the Cahuenga Pass, a mountain pass in the Santa Monica Mountains . The house is located in the eastern part of the pass belonging to Los Angeles, only 100 meters as the crow flies from Mulholland Drive , and offers views over downtown Los Angeles. The Polin House, also built by Lautner, is in the neighborhood.

history

The Carling House was designed and built by Lautner between 1947 and 1950 for the composer Foster Carling. At the time of construction it was the most ambitious and most expensive project by Lautner, who was 36 at the time. In 1991 the house was bought by Bruce Eicher, owner of a lighting technology company. Eicher had extensive renovation work carried out on the house, for which the already very old Lautner was personally consulted. In addition to work on the site such as the design of a new driveway and the construction of a carport, the window front facing the terrace was also moved to create more space inside. In 1997 Eicher sold the house to the advertising director Steven Ramser. Since then the house has changed hands several times. In 2016, it was acquired by Moschino designer Jeremy Scott for $ 3.25 million .

style

The roughly boomerang-shaped house curves around an oval pool. The west-facing main part of the house contains the living and dining room. Three-legged steel poles outside the house support a hexagonal roof so no girders are needed inside this part of the house. The window front of the living room, a recurring element at Lautner, can be completely retracted into the side walls at the push of a button, gives access to the terrace and, when closed, divides the swimming pool of the house into an indoor and an outdoor area. When the window front is open, part of the living room with a permanently installed sofa can be moved along a rail so that it is positioned above the terrace directly by the pool and at the same time offers a panoramic view to the south over Los Angeles. The piece of wall moved in this way serves as a windbreak for the terrace. The basic idea of ​​Lautner, which led to this unusual construction, was that the owner Carling, who worked from home and would therefore spend a lot of time in the apartment, the feeling of security in familiar surroundings and at the same time the freedom to redesign the apartment, to give. The walls and ceiling of the living area are clad with panels made of sequoia wood, the floor is made of polished concrete. For the wood paneling and other wooden work, Lautner worked with the yacht builder John de la Vaux, who was also the owner of the house. The house has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, which are located in the eastern, more conventionally constructed wing of the house.

Lautner also applied the principle of the strapless living area to two other residential buildings he had recently built, the Polin House and the Jacobsen House.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Houzz.com : Illustrated article on Houzz.com. Retrieved February 22, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Owner history on NCModernist.org. Retrieved February 22, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Variety.com: Rumor Has It: Fashion Designer Jeremy Scott in Escrow for Elrod House in Palm Springs. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  4. ^ Nicolas Olsberg: Between Earth and Heaven. The Architecture of John Lautner, p. 73. Rizzoli Int. Publications, 2011.
  5. ↑ Description of the house on RodeoReviewer.com. Retrieved January 6, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange: John Lautner, p. 27. Taschen, 2005.

Coordinates: 34 ° 7 '16.7 "  N , 118 ° 20' 50.4"  W.