Perched above the Pacific Ocean within the Los Angeles County group of Rancho Palos Verdes, this Paul Revere Williams-designed house is match for a midcentury-modern superfan.
And simply such an fanatic appears to have materialized shortly, as the house is already pending sale after only a few weeks in the marketplace. This itemizing is priced at $2.2 million.
The four-bedroom, three-bath, 2,059-square-foot dwelling was in-built 1960 and is ready on a 19,000-square-foot lot.
It’s a part of the Williams-designed, 190-home SeaView subdivision, which was featured in Atomic Ranch journal in 2011.
Providing semiopen ground plans, excessive ceilings, and disappearing partitions through shoji screens, the event was geared towards World Conflict II veterans.
With 186 toes of sea-facing property strains, the house provides panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island, vistas that can be loved from the proprietor’s suite and adjoining patio—considered one of two on the house.
“It was designed for the home-owner to take pleasure in a year-round, vacation-type of life-style,” says Gloria Commiso, of Compass. “Williams was forward of his time and created one of many first ‘staycation’ communities on this space.”
Williams, who died in 1980, is likely to be finest often called an architect to stars equivalent to Lucille Ball and Frank Sinatra.
Just lately restored
The house has been preserved to keep up its unique retro character, the itemizing notes. A “beauty rework” of the inside and exterior was completed simply previous to the house’s itemizing.
Design options embrace an ornamental block wall, open beams, a stone-surround fire, and a custom-built duplicate of the unique divider display screen, which provides privateness within the eating space.
Within the kitchen, a classic O’Keefe and Merritt range features a cooktop, double oven, rotisserie, and “grillevator.”
A two-car storage rounds out the property.
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‘Dream home’
The home—an instance of the “Monte Carlo” mannequin, the subdivision’s largest ground plan—was offered off market to the present proprietor in 2005, by a household that had owned it since 1971.
The vendor has since relocated for work and “informed me he felt that he had hit the home lottery when he bought it for $800,000,” Commiso says. “After they purchased the property, it had some deferred upkeep, and the yard was a little bit of an eyesore. They restored it in and out to convey it again to its glory days … to replicate its unique vibes and midcentury trendy character. That is an entertainer’s dream home.”