In 2007, Donald Wexler, the late Mid-Century architect (a protegee of Richard Neutra and William Cody) who helped form Palm Springs’ Modernism motion, designed a Hollywood Hills compound for his son, worldwide photographer and director Glen Wexler. “Donald Wexler labored along with Glen, who needed a really particular live-work house. That’s what the design is concentrated on,” explains David Kramer, a top-producing agent with Hilton & Hyland in Beverly Hills who not too long ago offered the house for Glen Wexler.
(Disclosure right here: I interviewed and profiled Donald Wexler for Palm Springs Life years in the past. The afternoon I spent touring Mr. Wexler’s designs with him stays a profession spotlight.)
Dramatically totally different describes the house. Lofty ceilings body the outsized sized lounge the place you first glimpse the house’s focus –further artistic areas circulate from the two-story gallery house. Pure gentle via clerestory home windows and partitions of glass might be discovered all through.
A connoisseur chef’s kitchen, eating room, and media room all open to exterior patios. The design captures the indoor-outdoor life-style the architect was famous for. The outsized master bedroom results in an infinity-edge spa and waterfall. Far-reaching metropolis and hillside views praise the property from its prime Hollywood Hills location.
The five-bedroom, six-bathroom concrete compound not too long ago offered for $3,461,050. “We knew the client for the house was very particular. We used the ground plan, which included two kitchens, a two-story gallery, artist studio and media room, to market and appeal to a focused purchaser,” Kramer says. The customer, a global artist, made a proposal instantly upon seeing the residence.
Donald Wexler’s use of prefabricated metal in residential design in Palm Springs gained worldwide publicity within the architectural group. Based on the Palm Springs Fashionable Committee, “the Alexander Building Firm contracted Wexler and Harrison to design an revolutionary neighborhood of all-steel houses on the then northern fringe of Palm Springs. As a result of rising prices of metal, the venture was halted after simply seven houses have been constructed. These revolutionary factory-fabricated, site-assembled metal homes mixed prefabricated parts with normal development methodology and are actually internationally acclaimed.” These seven houses Wexler and Harris designed are a lot wanted by Mid-Century lovers.
The timeless and award-winning Palm Springs Worldwide Airport (typically grabbing the highest spots in one of the best airport in the US rankings) was designed by Wexler. An ideal instance of Mid-Century simplicity and magnificence is the 1964 Wexler-designed Dinah Shore residence on Hermosa within the Las Palmas property space of Palm Springs. Actor Leonardo Di Caprio reportedly bought the property a number of years in the past.
An award-winning photographer and director, Glen Wexler is thought internationally for the a whole lot of report album covers he created and executed elaborately staged digital photograph compositions of unbelievable conditions for Van Halen, Michael Jackson, Black Sabbath, ZZ High, and Rush. Wexler displayed these in his residence’s gallery showroom, the place they have been seen by celebrities, artists and musicians who have been frequent company of the architect. He has additionally labored on high promoting campaigns for Acura, Sony and Microsoft, to call just some purchasers. His pictures additionally appeared on the quilt of TIME.
The Wexler compound illustrates how timeless artistic design by an iconic architect is at all times in demand.
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