This mid-century fashionable house in Pasadena is achingly cool – and it is on the market

Set amongst hills, this Pasadena home is a traditional instance of mid-century modernist structure with a storied artistic historical past. Up on the market by way of Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty, the Conrad Buff II Residence was designed for artists and writers Mary and Conrad Buff II and accomplished in 1955.

Step inside Conran Buff II Residence, a modernist Pasadena home

The agency charged with the design of this single-storey, 4 bed room was residence was Buff and Hensman, established in 1948 by Don Hensman and Conran Buff III, the son of the shoppers. Joined by Calvin Straub shortly after the completion of this residence, the agency went on to work on Arts & Structure Journal’s Case Research programme, designing home #20 for designer Saul Bass. Different initiatives included a home for Steve McQueen and the design of Case Research home #28.

After Straub left in 1962, the agency continued, with Buff himself dying in 1989 and the architect Dennis Smith becoming a member of the agency as a associate. It was Smith who led a full renovation and extension of the Buff Home in 2017, which was subsequently used for a spell because the agency’s workplace, in addition to profitable an area historic preservation award. The renovation up to date the home all through and because of this it’s in superb bodily situation.

Tucked right into a hillside overlooking a canyon, the home is organized over a single storey in a north-south linear configuration. Behind the automated gates, a chic carport with a shallow-pitched roof and slender construction defines the doorway façade, with one facet resulting in the entrance door and the opposite to the deck and naturally planted backyard by modern backyard designer Ivette Soler.

Inside, the post-and-beam construction that outlined a lot of the apply’s residential work in California may be very a lot in proof. The unique walnut cabinetry and storage stays in place, restored and expanded, whereas cork flooring offers a heat feeling underfoot all through the first rooms.

All bedrooms have direct entry to the backyard and there’s additionally a sitting space contained within the major suite.

The neighbourhood is scattered with low-key architectural gems, lots of which comply with the established mid-century playbook of single-storey, open plan homes that profit from the Californian local weather with their sliding glass partitions and slender metal or timber constructions.

The Conrad Buff II Residence in Pasadena is on the market by way of Sotheby’s Realty, Los Feliz Brokerage