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The Case Study Houses Program: Craig Ellwood’s Case Study House 18

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Craig Ellwood’s series of Case Study Houses was seen most successfully in the Case Study House  18, otherwise known as Fields House, that introduced many design enhancements on previous models.

The no. 18 was built in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, which provided sweeping views of the surrounding hills from a prime location.

One of the most significant progressions of the Case Study House 18, was to prefabricate its frame in a factory to which were later added fixtures such as walls, floors and tiling.

Ellwood kept the design for the Case Study House 18, basic. He divided the rectangular shaped plan in two separate sections: the bedrooms, the lounge and the music room were on one side while the kitchen, the entrance hall and the covered entryway on the other.

A translucent glass wall protects the house from the street-view but makes the light to filter through while offering privacy to the people inside. The inside-outside continuity was guaranteed by sliding doors connecting the living room with the terrace.

As other Case Study Houses, the no. 18 had many inclusions such as a swimming pool, modern appliances and a central vacuum system. Also, Ellwood placed many electrical outlets around the house to help its owners to tailor the spaces as they liked. Over time this made the original design almost unrecognisable.

The glass and beams prefabricated structure together with a flexible open plan, made the Case Study House 18 the perfect example of what the Case Study Houses Program was trying to achieve: an architectural model for affordable and modern housing.

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Case Study House #18, Beverly Hills, CA (1957-1958)

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Designers: Ellwood, Craig, Associates (firm); Waltz, Warren, Landscape Architect (firm); Craig Ellwood (architect); Jerrold Ellsworth Lomax (architect); Warren Ray Waltz (landscape architect)

Dates: constructed 1957-1958

Designed in 1955, erected 1957-1958; Jerrold E. Lomax was listed as an associate of Ellwood's on this project; house comprised a 32-foot by 72-foot rectangle; plan was oriented to take advantage of a sweeping city view on the south; no glass walls faced the street or carport; blue wireglass was used on the windows to absorb sunlight; Ellwood designed the house to be erected quickly with pre-fab wall panels;

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Case Study House morphs into a Regency-style contemporary and is now for sale in Beverly Hills

It’s asking $8.7 million

Case Study House No. 18 by Craig Ellwood, “extensively remodeled and altered,” is for sale right now in Beverly Hills.

Its current form is more of a Regency-inspired exterior with an interior that combines brown floor tile, vaulted ceilings and skylights in the kitchen, and touches of what looks to be marble.

The four-bedroom house began its life in 1958 as a prefab house with a sleek, minimal design that was “strongly defined with color: ceiling and panels are off-white and the steel framework is blue.” (Images from the early days of the house can be seen at the website Mid-Century Home .)

“The original steel frame, pre-fab midcentury house potentially could be restored to its original intent,” says the listing, leaving the possibility open for a return to the past for the house.

The Case Study House program was sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine. The homes, designed from the mid-1940s to mid-1960s, were supposed to be replicable and affordable, and were aimed at building much needed housing in the post-World War II era.

This house sits on a plot that’s just under an acre. It was most recently owned by Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg and his wife, and it is listed for $8.7 million . (The property site shows the residence’s previous price, $9.5 million.)

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Craig Ellwood (April 22, 1922 - May 30, 1992) was an influential Los Angeles-based modernist architect whose career spanned the early 1950s through the mid-1970s. Although untrained as an architect, Ellwood fashioned a persona and career through equal parts of a talent for good design, self-promotion and ambition. He was recognized professionally for fusing of the formalism of Mies van der Rohe with the informal style of California modernism.

Ellwood was born Jon Nelson Burke in Clarendon, Texas. Along with many others in the 1920s, Ellwood's family moved west, following U.S. Route 66, finally settling in Los Angeles in 1937. There, Ellwood, as Johnnie Burke, attended Belmont High School, where he was class president before graduating in 1940. In 1942, Ellwood and his brother Cleve both joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Ellwood served as a B-24 radio operator, based with Cleve in Victorville, California until his discharge in 1946.

After his discharge, Burke returned to Los Angeles and set up a company with his brother Cleve and two friends from the war, the Marzicola brothers, one of whom had a contractor's license. The four men called their firm 'Craig Ellwood' after a liquor store called Lords and Elwood located in front of their offices. Burke later legally changed his name to Ellwood. In 1948, he joined the firm Lamport Cofer Salzman (L.C.S.) as a construction cost estimator, having acquired this skill during his work for the Craig Ellwood Company. Ellwood also studied structural engineering through UCLA extension night school for five years. He became increasingly involved in design and architecture, resulting in Ellwood's first commissions, all for residences.

Ellwood established 'Craig Ellwood Design' in 1951. There Ellwood would provide the commissions and the vision, and it was up to USC-trained architect Robert Theron 'Pete' Peters, and later others, to provide the technical realization, drawings and the required sign-off of a licensed architect. Early projects included Case Study House 16 in 1952. The designs were well received by both the trade and potential clients, often receiving favorable coverage in influential publications like John Entenza's Arts & Architecture, often arranged for by Ellwood personally. Thus the firm received a growing stream of both residential and commercial commissions, and Ellwood's style matured to fully embrace the concepts put forth by International Style architects, particularly Mies van der Rohe.

By the late-1950s, though not a licensed architect, Ellwood was nonetheless a sought-after university lecturer, eventually giving a series of talks at Yale University, and teaching at the University of Southern California and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona's Department of Architecture.

Though Ellwood's office expanded with the size and number of his commissions, it was never a particularly profitable enterprise. It continued through the mid-1970s, with several notable projects, including the master plan for the Rand Corporation's headquarters in Santa Monica, California, a number of Xerox and IBM offices, and the trademark "bridge building" dramatically spanning an arroyo and roadway at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. As published in the 1976, the Art Center building is recognized as the work of Craig Ellwood Associates, with James Tyler as design architect and Stephen Woolley as project architect. Some sources have sought to re-credit this building solely to Tyler, who had worked for John Sugden (a former associate of Mies) and was the architect of the Art Center addition, completed in 1991. The practice closed in 1977 and Ellwood retired to Italy to focus on painting and restoring a farm house near Ambra, Italy. Ellwood died of a heart attack in 1992 in Pergine Valdarno, Italy.

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Craig Ellwood stated his architectural philosophy in the March 1976 issue of L.A. Architect:

"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. The purpose of architecture is to enrich the joy and drama of living. The spirit of architecture is its truthfulness to itself: its clarity and logic with respect to its materials and structure.

"Building comes of age when it expresses its epoch. The constant change in technology demands a continuously maturing expression of itself. When technology reaches its fulfillment in perfect equilibrium with function, there is a transcendence into architecture.

"The truth about truth is it is - waiting for us to discover it. The consciousness of truth is not static, but ever progressively unfolding. We must strive for intrinsic solution, not extrinsic effect. The moment form becomes arbitrary, it becomes novelty or style - it becomes something other than architecture. Materials and methods will certainly change, but the basic laws of nature make finally everything timeless.

"Architecture, by its own nature, must certainly be more than an expression of an idea. Art in architecture is not arbitrary stylism or ethereal symbolism, but rather the extent to which a building can transcend from the measurable into the immeasurable. The extent to which a building can evoke profound emotion. The extent to which a building can spiritually uplift and inspire man while simultaneously reflecting the logic or the technique which alone can convey its validity to exist."

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Craig Ellwood perhaps was as well known for his personal life as his architecture. He married four times, had a penchant for exotic sports cars, and was a natural in public relations.  

Born Jon Nelson Burke in 1922 in Clarendon, Texas, he coined “Craig Ellwood” as the name of a construction company he formed after World War II with his brother and two friends. The business lasted only two years, but Ellwood kept the company name, legally taking it as his own in 1948.

Ellwood’s family settled in Los Angeles when he was a teenager (still known as Jon Burke). He was elected class president at Belmont High School. After graduating, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps until 1946. He had acting ambitions and dabbled in modeling and PR before entering the world of architecture.

After closing the construction business, Ellwood worked as a cost estimator for the contracting firm Lamport Cofer Salzman (LCS), which built several Case Study Houses. Through LCS, Ellwood met John Entenza, founder of the Case Study House program and editor of Arts & Architecture magazine. This connection would prove pivotal to his success as an architect.  

Ellwood took night courses in structural engineering at UCLA but never earned a formal degree. He had a natural brilliance for architecture and design, profoundly understanding the relationship of horizontal and vertical planes and the merits of prefabrication. He taught and lectured at universities including USC, Cal-Poly Pomona, and Yale.

He established Craig Ellwood Associates in 1949 and in 1951 was invited by Entenza to participate in the Case Study House Program. Ellwood designed three houses for the program ( #16 , #17, and #18). Completed in 1952 and considered by many as one of the most important postwar California homes, #16 is the only one of the three that remains intact. 

Ellwood gained many commissions as result of the Case Study House program, and he designed many noteworthy Modern homes throughout Los Angeles. The firm’s commercial projects included office towers and the Bridge Building for Art Center College for Design in Pasadena—considered by many as his farewell project.  

Craig Ellwood Associates stayed in practice until Ellwood’s retirement in 1977, when he moved to Italy to pursue painting. He died there in 1992.

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When Minimalism Gets Extravagant: A Virtual Look at the Case Study House 17(2)

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• Published on June 23, 2018

Arts & Architecture ’s Case Study House program was supposed to be about creating replicable, affordable designs for post-war living—stylish but modest homes for young families on a budget. And then came house #17(2).

To be fair, this house was designed for real clients, with specific and ambitious requirements. The Hoffmans had four children, a household staff, and an art collection. So this was never going to be just another suburban three-bedroom.

It was, rather, a lavish five-bedroom residence complete with study, living room, dining room, and recreation room—not to mention the swimming pool, tennis court, children’s playground, maid’s quarters and workshop, and all fitted with top-of-the-line finishes and appliances. Although the rooms were modestly sized and the style as pared-down as any other mid-century minimalist design, this was a project on an entirely different scale.

Craig Ellwood—a man known for his own flashy lifestyle, who wrote in 1976 that the purpose of architecture was “to enrich the joy and drama of living”—must have relished the opportunity. Even the magazine’s editors got more than a little carried away, devoting a full 16 pages to this “good house and handsome object,” and gushing at length about the high specifications of the appliances and the vast number of closets.

In one respect, at least, this house was more in line with the average homeowner’s situation than many Case Study designs. The site was level and unexceptional, boasting no dramatic views to distract from or compensate for a small interior. Instead, the house wraps around an impressive courtyard with pool, encouraging residents to admire and celebrate their own property rather than a distant landscape, and turning the outside entertainment area into something of a theater; or, given the neo-classical aesthetic, perhaps a temple.

While the familiar Case Study design vocabulary—floor-to-ceiling glass, horizontal lines, steel frames, uninterrupted floors extending from the interior to the terrace—was applied here in service of a rather more hedonistic vision, it certainly upheld the program’s goal of reimagining modern living, in ways that translated well to countless subsequent homes. The kitchen in particular, with its bar-style island and sleek handle-free cupboards, would not look out of place in any newly built apartment.

Furniture chosen for its straight, sculptural lines and fixed to the walls contributed to the sense of the house as a complete design, with a monochromatic color scheme setting off the paintings displayed in gallery walls (another very current touch!) at the entrance and elsewhere.

And yet the actual owners were less thoroughly convinced; conflict over the stark aesthetic kept Ellwood from full satisfaction with his own creation, and the Hoffmans sold it after just six years, to a decorator who immediately pasted some pure Hollywood kitsch on top of this minimalist design. It’s hard to imagine why he wanted to paint the brickwork pink and wrap the terrace’s steel columns in pastiche Doric columns, but perhaps the pagan temple impression was just too powerful to ignore. Does walking through Archilogic ’s wooden version of the house inspire you to imagine an alternative remodel?

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Arts & architecture, june 1958   all images are for educational purposes and are under copyright of creators and owners.

ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE, August 1957. Case Study Houses 18 and 19: Craig Ellwood and Knorr Elliott Associates.

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John Entenza [Editor]: ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE. Los Angeles: John D. Entenza, Volume 74, No. 8, August 1957. Slim folio. Saddle-stitched printed wrappers. 40 pp. Illustrated articles and advertisments. Cover design by Charles Kratka. Wrappers lightly soiled and worn, but a very good or better copy.

9.75 x 12.75 vintage magazine with 40 pages of editorial content and advertisements from leading purveyors of West Coast mid-century modernism, circa 1957.  Staff photography by Julius Shulman. In terms of decor, there is none of that Chippendale jive here-- every residential interior is decked out in full midcentury glory.

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• Case Study House No. 18: Craig Ellwood Associates
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• Brussels International And Universal Exhibition 1958
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• Ads for Paul McCobb’s Pomona Tile, etc.

Editorial Associates for Arts and Architecture included Herbert Matter and Charles Eames. Julius Shulman was the staff photographer.  The Editorial Advisory Board included William Wilson Wurster, Richard Neutra, Isamu Noguchi, Eero Saarinen, Gardner Dailey, Sumner Spaulding, Mario Corbett, Esther McCoy, John Funk, Gregory Ain, George Nelson, Gyorgy Kepes, Marcel Breuer, Raphael Soriano, Ray Eames, Garret Eckbo, Edgar Kaufman, Jr. and others luminaries of the mid-century modern movement.

In 1938, John Entenza joined California Arts and Architecture magazine as editor. by 1943, Entenza and his art director Alvin Lustig had completely overhauled the magazine and renamed it Arts and Architecture. Arts and Architecture championed all that was new in the arts, with special emphasis on emerging modernist architecture in Southern California.

One of the pivotal figures in the growth of modernism in California, Entenza's most lasting contribution was his sponsorship of the Case Study Houses project, which featured the works of architects Thornton Abell, Conrad Buff, Calvin Straub, Donald Hensman, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, J. R. Davidson, A. Quincy Jones, Frederick Emmons, Don Knorr, Edward Killinsworth, Jules Brady, Waugh Smith, Pierre Koenig, Kemper Nomland,   Kemper Nomland Jr., Richard Neutra, Ralph Rapson, Raphael Soriano, Whitney Smith, Sumner Spaulding, John Rex, Rodney Walker, William Wilson Wurster, Theodore Bernardi and Craig Ellwood. Arts and Architecture also ran articles and interviews on artists and designers such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, George Nakashima, George Nelson and many other groundbreakers.

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger Demolished a Craig Ellwood, and the Internet Is Furious

It seems that L.A.’s thirst for massive modern farmhouses knows no bounds: last week, news broke that Chris Pratt and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger quietly bought then razed the 74-year-old Zimmerman House by Southern California modernist architect Craig Ellwood with plans to build a 15,000-square-foot residence in the increasingly ubiquitous, though contentious  style. As first published by Robb Report , the couple reportedly paid $12.5 million in an off-market sale for the midcentury house in Brentwood, which marked one of Ellwood’s earliest projects. They also tore up all of modernist legend Garrett Eckbo’s original landscaping, effectively turning the nearly one-acre lot into one flat slab.

Los Angeles-based modernist architect Craig Ellwood completed the Zimmerman House in the Brentwood neighborhood in 1950. It marked one of his earliest projects.

Though Pratt already has a few detractors online, with a portion of the internet dubbing him "the worst Chris," news of the demolition has soured people  even further—but it’s not just preservation activists sharing their anger on social media. X user @PastaVersaucy wrote , "Special place in hell for people who do this, go buy a readily made McMansion instead you dumb b****!!!," subsequently posting: "Tearing this down, for what?? Floor to ceiling black and white marble with no soul?" In a retweet of the above, X user @caitiedelaney added , "Maybe I’m different but I would have a hard time sleeping soundly if I spent $12.5 million on this house only to tear it down." Members of the Midcentury Modern subreddit agreed, posting comments  like, "Yet more proof that money can’t buy good taste," and "I know its[sic] just material but sincerely, burn in the deepest pits of hell bro," in response to a TikTok from Quinn Garvey (@vintageonq) that starts, "Chris Pratt, you’re a weirdo for this one," and currently has 38,800 likes.

In Garvey’s video, which she took inside the Zimmerman House during the 2022 estate sale, you can see the home’s original fixtures and structures, many of which were featured i n Julius Shulman’s 1953 photos of the property —and still seemed to be in good if not great shape. (Some were even sold on 1stDibs late last year, prior to demolition.) Garvey says that when she heard the news, she was surprised, even though this isn’t her "first rodeo" in terms of estate sales in subsequently demolished homes. "I remember going through it, and it was such a pleasant experience," she says. "I thought it was in great condition. I’ve been to estate sales in houses that were a little dilapidated or you can see the water damages or the hinges of the cabinets are falling off, but that house had such a different feel to it. I never thought it was gonna go. It’s just like, Really? You had to do that?"

Of course, the preservationists are also quite upset—and vocal. Nonprofit Save Iconic Architecture called the demolition "devastating" in an Instagram post , with at least one commenter likening the couple’s choice to "buying a Rothko for the frame." The architectural preservation advocacy group’s cofounder, interior designer Jaime Rummerfield, says she more than understands the internet’s collective disgust, likening it to "an endangered animal that just got poached again" and saying that it’s "neglectful" for architect Ken Ungar, who’s been commissioned to build the couple’s new modern farmhouse-style mansion, to not even attempt to incorporate the existing structure into their vision. "Shame on them for not wanting to keep something so special," she adds.

Part of the reason people are angry is because, realistically, the couple didn’t actually have to demolish the residence. They reportedly purchased the house because Schwarzenegger’s mother, Maria Shriver, lives right across the street, raising the question of whether there were other properties on the block they could have pursued. Some, like L.A. architect John Dutton —who actually grew up in one of the adjacent homes Shriver razed to build her compound—have also questioned whether Pratt and Schwarzenegger could have added to the existing footprint, saying that, while amending the Ellwood-designed property would have taken longer and cost more, the result would have been a home that was more special, rather than "a weird, emblematic three-dimensional advertisement of status."

Celebrity couple Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger reportedly bought the Ellwood-designed midcentury residence for $12.5 million in an off-market sale, then demolished the home with plans to build a modern farmhouse-style mansion in its place.

And while the home’s 2,770 square feet is modest by today’s big money real estate standards, realtors like Take Sunset’s Rob Kallick agree that, had the house hit the open market , it would have generated a lot of interest , even at that steep price point. "Craig Ellwood homes elicit a very strong emotional response from buyers," he says. While he admits that there is a limited pool of buyers for a $12.5 million architecturally significant home, "there are many wealthy people who deeply understand how valuable that house could be to preserve and restore, even if it’s kind of small-ish, relatively speaking." A Richard Neutra house that just went on the market in L.A.’s Silver Lake neighborhood is already in contract , for instance, with Kallick saying showings were "a complete madhouse."

Many commenters decrying the demolition asked why the house wasn’t protected, saying that it should have been on some sort of historic list. Rummerfield says that the reality of the matter is that the city of L.A. has been incredibly lax about that sort of designation for years, passing the onus onto citizens and architectural fans in the community . There’s no head of preservation in the city government, either, so when appeals or requests for historic designation are submitted to places like the planning committee or the Office of Historic Resources, they can sit for years before even being addressed, during which time the homes or buildings in question may either fall into disrepair or disappear altogether.

"We need a chief of preservation who really connects the dots between things like Survey LA and what’s actually going on at each address," Rummerfield says. "Even if you’re just talking about the top three percent of notable buildings that should be saved, or saying making blanket designations, like ‘all Paul R. Williams’ or ‘all Craig Ellwood,’ L.A. needs to stop passing the buck on preservation."

Top photo of the 1950 Zimmerman House by Craig Ellwood; photo by Julius Shulman, courtesy © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

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Pacific Palisades Rodney Walker’s West House Case Study 18

199 CHAUTAUQUA BLVD, PACIFIC PALISADES  l $11.9M l Case Study 18 l 3 BD l 3 BA

An historic Case Study house has just hit the market. Rodney Walker’s West House or Case Study 18 is located moments from the coast on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As our modernist aficionados know, the Case Study Program was established by Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza. The magazine sponsored this groundbreaking program which gave us historic houses from such renowned architects as Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, A Quincy Jones and Raphael Soriano (to name but a few).

The setting of this home is pretty spectacular as the property is perched above the street off a long drive and surrounded by lush vegetation. The house remains largely intact. The picture perfect living room even includes Warren Platner chairs, a Milo Baughman sofa and the the classic Noguchi table, a dream to any modernist fan. A floor to ceiling double sided brick fireplace inlaid with copper is a stunning centerpiece to the room.

With only limited Case Study homes built, this is a true opportunity to own a piece of history. Born from the Case Study movement, Case Study House #18, or “The West House” as it was known, by famed architect Rodney Walker, sits perched on a coastal bluff, and possesses a view of unimaginable beauty and splendor. The expansive unobstructed view of the pacific ocean that is the backdrop to this living piece of art is one that has to be seen and experienced to be truly appreciated.

This largely untouched and preserved Case Study House personifies an architectural philosophy that defined an era and represents the exacting precision and intention of design with each room lovingly framing the Pacific Ocean beyond. Large walled floating windows in both the primary suite and the sitting room slide open to invite indoor/outdoor living. A double sided fireplace clad in copper allows warmth and light throughout.

This Mid-Century gem features floor-to ceiling walls of glass, allowing ample sunlight to bathe its interiors, accentuating its ideal single story floor plan, one with an immaculate design that features a galley kitchen, a formal living and dining room, a Primary suite, a sitting room and two additional bedrooms. Owner enhanced amenities include a private exercise cabin with views to the lower lot, an infrared modern sauna and soaking hot tub.

This unbelievably generous lot on over half an acre of lush land, set in the sought after area of Pacific Palisades, overlooking the ocean and nestled in an enclave amongst other case study homes allows a discerning buyer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to develop another architectural marvel on the lower lot, one that will compliment and showcase this prized home for generations to come.

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Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger Just Tore Down This Stunning Midcentury Modern Home

The hollywood couple bought the $12.5 million property last year and wasted little time in demolishing the existing structure, designed by famed architect craig ellwood., james mcclain, james mcclain's most recent stories, ‘crazy rich asians’ director unloads pastoral california estate for $5 million.

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The house changed hands in 1968 and again in 1975, when it sold for the paltry sum of $205,000 to Sam and Hilda Rolfe, he the co-creator of the classic 1960s spy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and the CBS series Have Gun — Will Travel . Sam Rolfe died in 1993, but his widow Hilda continued to own and reside at the property until her own death nearly 30 years later.

Although the Zimmerman house was never listed on the open market, the property was quietly sold last January, just months after Hilda’s death, for $12.5 million. The off-market buyers were Hollywood actor Chris Pratt and author Katherine Schwarzenegger, who wasted little time in demolishing the midcentury structure to make way for their own new Brentwood dream home—which is currently still in the early stages of construction.

Permit records indicate the upcoming new house, which stands two stories tall and includes a full basement, was designed by L.A. architect Ken Ungar, perhaps one of the Westside’s most prolific and successful designers of large modern farmhouse-style mansions.

It’s probably little wonder that Pratt and Schwarzenegger selected the Zimmerman house as the lot they wanted, because the tree-shaded property happens to sit almost directly across the street from a two-house compound owned by Schwarzenegger’s mother Maria Shriver. Other nearby neighbors include Arianna Huffington and Sofia Richie.

While they wait for their new Brentwood digs to be completed, Pratt and Schwarzenegger continue to own their “old” house, a heavily renovated mansion in the hills of Pacific Palisades. The contemporary Mediterranean-style manor, given an extensive refresh during the couple’s tenure, remains on the open market, asking $30 million.

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• Reach out to the pro(s) you want, then share your vision to get the ball rolling.
• Request and compare quotes, then hire the Interior Designer & Decorator that perfectly fits your project and budget limits.

An interior designer is a professional who helps you make your indoor spaces beautiful and functional. They can assist you with various projects, whether it’s complete home remodeling or simply refreshing the look of a room. Hiring an interior designer early in the process ensures proper planning and maximizes the potential of your project.

Here are some main things an interior designer does:

• Designs your space to match your style and needs.
• Makes the best use of your space for practicality and flow.
• Selects the right colors and materials for a pleasing look.
• Provides visualizations to see how your space will look.
• Manages the project and works with contractors.
• Ensures your space meets all regulations and codes.

In short, hiring an interior designer in Elektrostal' ensures your space is not only beautiful but also suits your lifestyle and functions well for your daily activities.

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• Create functional and appealing spaces, collaborating with professionals.
• Manage projects from start to finish, ensuring a smooth process.
• Formal education in interior design, including color schemes, materials, and CAD.
• Handle design and decoration, offering a comprehensive approach.
• Focus on understanding your needs and lifestyle.
• Specialize in surface-level aesthetics like paint colors and furnishings.
• Enhance the overall look and feel with decorative elements.
• Can work independently or for a decorating firm.
• Typically lack formal educational requirements in interior design.

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If you search for Interior Designer near me you'll be sure to find a business that knows about the trends and styles for bathroom, kitchen, or whole house remodels. Their profession involves creating aesthetically pleasing and functional spaces tailored to clients' preferences and needs

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