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Crosby Doe has built a reputation representing historic and architect-designed properties in Southern California. DRE#01844144
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Mrs. Dorothy and Mr. George Serulnic House by NEUTRA

Built in 1953-55. True to his signature style, the residence seamlessly blurs the line between nature and structure. Think walls of glass, stone fireplace, and original built ins that connect the indoor living space directly to a flat, open lawn. 2bd house listed by @ojetto from @crosbydoe 
This property is a part of a bigger compound located at: 3947 Markridge Rd, La Crescenta, Ca. 🌲🌳🏡

…. And who was Dorothy ? Dorothy Serulnic, Richard Neutra’s secretary and a close associate of the Neutra family.
The design had to overcome the budget constraints of Dorothy Serulnic, whose true passion was poetry, and George Serulnic, who was violist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. As a result, Neutra’s plans offered extensive estimates for the cost and proposed a staged design that could be realized over an extended period of time. In addition, Neutra took measures to reduce energy costs, including placing an awning over the patio that reduced the glass doors’ exposure to the sun maintained a cool interior temperature.
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🎸 flea bought this 5.7-acre la crescenta property in 2018 and turned it into a small architecture collection. the compound includes a restored 1953 richard neutra, a seven-sided michael maltzan house, a one-room wooden cabin, and a later subterranean addition carved directly into the hillside. there is also a 50-foot saltwater pool with its own entertainment pavilion, plus views stretching across the angeles national forest. very few celebrity compounds come with this much architectural range.⁠
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listed at $5,750,000 by jett gelber with @crosbydoe⁠
flea’s photo by stefan brending⁠
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#iginteriors #celebrityhomes #richardneutra #uniquehomes
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For rent in Crestwood Hills: a 1951 post-and-beam house from the Mutual Housing Association tract, the cooperative that four studio musicians started in Kenter Canyon in 1946 and handed to Whitney R. Smith, A. Quincy Jones and the engineer Edgardo Contini to plan.

It is still largely the house those drawings describe. Painted Douglas fir plywood paneling with the built-in cabinetry that came with it, tongue-and-groove redwood plank walls, the frame left exposed overhead. The west side is plate glass and original steel-frame sliding doors, opening to a lawn, a concrete patio and an uninterrupted run of Pacific. A permitted addition went on the street side in 1958 and reads now as a fourth bedroom or an office with its own entry. The former carport is a studio with a kitchenette, included in the lease.

Worth knowing about the block. Two of its neighbors on Deerbrook, the Volk House and the Hamma House, are individually designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. On November 6, 1961 the Bel Air fire came over the mountains and down Kenter, and by the association's own count it took about forty-five of the tract's houses that night. The ones it missed are the neighborhood.

Available now, unfurnished, on a lease of one year or longer.

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Listing agent: Michael D. Phillips, Crosby Doe Associates
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