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It seems nostalgia is de rigeur these days — recently a Madame K. Bush made a small fortune for a song she sang decades ago! — so, step down into the living room of a storied building and travel back to the future.
The Alexander House – chef d’ouevre of Frank Lloyd Wright’s protégé John Lautner – was years before its time, both upon its completion in 1951 and still today. The home’s cubically minimal Mid-Century exterior, cleverly shielded by a brick wall that offers shade to a private garden, opens to an expansive estate with a surprising profundity: vaulted ceilings with beams that stretch upward like trees from the home’s tropical garden are a natural addition to the sunken living spaces.
Whether you remain indoors and enjoy the floor-to-ceiling view of lush green or step outside to lounge in the shade cast by the patio’s cantilevered overhang, the Alexander House will immerse you in its Californian Garden of Eden, as though you’ve made a deal with God (without running up a hill).
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