Case study
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Before
The same family had lived here for nearly seventy years. When the house was sold in 2023 it was still the original, untouched.
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The idea
A single-storey mid-century house by Richard Frazer, built in 1956–57 for the producer Stanley Rubin and the actress Kathleen Hughes: a low roof, a stone wall, glass to the garden.
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The intervention
The house was rebuilt to the studs. Terrazzo floors throughout, a new kitchen, a glass-lined primary suite, a new freeform pool and spa, and a desert garden of cactus and boulders where the lawn had been.
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Material and detail
Stacked stone, lacquered orange doors, terrazzo, full-height glass, a red mobile in the entry court.
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The result
At golden hour the sun comes low through the hillside trees and the pool takes the whole garden. Robb Report published the house in November 2024.
