I would imagine there would be a lot of birds hitting this place.

After the first minor earthquake the place will look like Berlin on the morning of November 10, 1938.

Trent Reznor should buy it. He could name it "The Reznor".. By the way that infinity pool looks scary. Like fall right off into the sea

The zombies will LOVE this place

Surprisingly nice place

Beautiful and completely out of my price range. :(

Tony Stark?

Teh Windex bill would be outrageous.

M0nkeyp0x: Tony Stark?

That was one of my first two thoughts. The other was the house where Bond fights the two chicks in Diamonds Are Forever.

The stairs on the side of the house have no railing. $34mill and no railing for the damn stairs that if you fall off, you fall into the drink. And they're pretty steep too. No I've never been there, but I know the people who shot that Clavin Klein ad in the article. I was supposed to work on it, but got the flu so bad I was in bed for two weeks right before Christmas. And I was told of the horror of the stairs.

sammichtester: Teh Windex bill would be outrageous.

I imagine if you can afford to pay cash for a $14 million dollar house, the Windex bill won't even make you blink. Personally, I'd have to have the damn bedrooms outfitted with major black out curtains. Losing the view because I can't sleep unless it's pitch black would definitely make me think twice about spending that kind of cash, if I had it.

Approves

WANT

That is a heck of a deal. 36m to build and that lot alone. You gotta love the people biatching about the sunlight coming in on the comments. It's west coast. It sets to that side, plus you could have custom made retracting screens if you can afford a 14m house.

DeadMouseTails: The stairs on the side of the house have no railing. $34mill and no railing for the damn stairs that if you fall off, you fall into the drink. And they're pretty steep too. No I've never been there, but I know the people who shot that Clavin Klein ad in the article. And I was told of the horror of the stairs.

OMG, I know right?! And the hardware in the kitchen was ghastly. Yuck!

Bear Farker: Approves



"If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about."

Wait, this isn't the house from a Fark article months ago that doesn't actually own the part of the lot at the bottom of the hill where crank smoking "hikers" hang out? Right.

/off to Google

Needs some sort of LCD shades built in, or at least motorized opaque fabric shades on all those windows.

Also, I absolutely love the windows in the window-wall thing in the picture captioned "House party:" but I'd be concerned about wicked drafts from those windows. They better have a good seal.

People shouldn't throw stones, regardless of housing situation. Unless you're trapped in a glass house, then, if you have a stone, by all means throw it!

http://comedians.jokes.com/demetri-martin/videos/demetri-martin---fin d ings

Is there some rule that "modern" and expensive furniture can't be comfortable?



I've seen cement stairwells that looked more comfortable than those chairs.

It's still rock and roll to me.

Emposter: Is there some rule that "modern" and expensive furniture can't be comfortable?

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I've seen cement stairwells that looked more comfortable than those chairs.

Man, I would crush those chairs in short order just tying my shoe, let alone sit in.
The house is lifeless and cold, nothing will make that a home.

Emposter: Is there some rule that "modern" and expensive furniture can't be comfortable?

Modern (in terms of architectural style, not just "not old") does refer to a minimalist, form-follows-function aesthetic. So, compared to older styles (and newer styles that look past it to older styles) it will look very spare. And some of the furniture will feel terrible to sit on, but a lot of it isn't really uncomfortable once you sit in it - the intent was to have a chair you could sit in, just one that didn't require teak-carved claw-and-ball feet and the death of 14 cows to upholster a chair for one person. And if you replaced the z-shaped stand with 4 legs, those chairs aren't that different from some basic all-wood dinner table chairs - many of these guys had some sort of basic furniture training as part of their education because there was a definite movement from the 1800s on that an architect should design a home as a whole, and have the skills to do it competently.

Just imaging bending the maid over the glass breakfast table, there for anyone below to savor. Ahhh, to be wealthy.

"Ooh, look! A bird has become petrified and lost its sense of direction."

"I think it's a rock, sir."

"We'll see what the lab has to say about THAT."

Perfect place to shoot porn.

Xai: Iron man

My thoughts, as well. Is that the house Tony Stark lived in in the Iron Man movies?

sorry, but I don't do windows...



and this isn't nearly enough

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros: It's still rock and roll to me.

Billy Joel obviously consolable.

/or just drunk

mongbiohazard: Needs some sort of LCD shades built in, or at least motorized opaque fabric shades on all those windows.

Also, I absolutely love the windows in the window-wall thing in the picture captioned "House party:" but I'd be concerned about wicked drafts from those windows. They better have a good seal.

This house is in La Jolla, not Fargo. I don't think you really need to worry about 'drafts'. Any drafts coming in would be about room temperature anyway.

The place is like a museum. It's very beautiful and very cold, and you're not allowed to touch anything

I like Modernism and Zen minimalism, but that place... wow. It's beautiful as an art piece, but seems like it would be impossible to actually live in and feel comfortable. The second you put your kid's soccer photo up on the wall or your own mementos on any surface, it ruins the effect. If I lived in in this house I'd imagine I'd feel like I was at constant war with it, altering my entire lifestyle and what I own, just to accommodate the artistic beauty of the house.

/Of course I'm known to sit around in my bathrobe and a Blue Sun tee-shirt scratching my balls and drinking root beer, so you know...YMMV and all that

Says it's just bad behavior

painless42: I like Modernism and Zen minimalism, but that place... wow. It's beautiful as an art piece, but seems like it would be impossible to actually live in and feel comfortable. The second you put your kid's soccer photo up on the wall or your own mementos on any surface, it ruins the effect. If I lived in in this house I'd imagine I'd feel like I was at constant war with it, altering my entire lifestyle and what I own, just to accommodate the artistic beauty of the house.

/Of course I'm known to sit around in my bathrobe and a Blue Sun tee-shirt scratching my balls and drinking root beer, so you know...YMMV and all that

Oh come on...it's just a vacation home to spend a few weeks a year at.

I'm sure there's a lot more to it than the pics can show. I bet at night the light effects show off all those glass walls with some pretty interesting design.

Unfortunately, the photographer didn't understand the detail, so they took the average "view out the picture window" shots. The 360 degree description doesn't help much either. "Lets wrap this up - I have a section 8 duplex I have to show."

Ficoce:Oh come on...it's just a vacation home to spend a few weeks a year at.



Well, If I'm keeping my Dr. Evil hidden volcano lair as my primary abode,then yeah sure totally...

fusillade762: M0nkeyp0x: Tony Stark?

That was one of my first two thoughts. The other was the house where Bond fights the two chicks in Diamonds Are Forever.

That's the Entenza house in palm spring. John Lautner was the master of the swank fark pad. Also designed the Garcia house that Mel Gibson pulled down with his pickup in lethal weapon 2, and the chemosphere which was melanie griffith's exhibitionist lair in body double. Amazing houses.

johnny queso: fusillade762: M0nkeyp0x: Tony Stark?

That was one of my first two thoughts. The other was the house where Bond fights the two chicks in Diamonds Are Forever.

That's the Entenza house in palm spring. John Lautner was the master of the swank fark pad. Also designed the Garcia house that Mel Gibson pulled down with his pickup in lethal weapon 2, and the chemosphere which was melanie griffith's exhibitionist lair in body double. Amazing houses.

Ah, interesting. I've always wondered if the Lethal Weapon house was the same one as the Diamonds house. Makes perfect sense that they were designed by the same guy.

phalamir: - many of these guys had some sort of basic furniture training as part of their education because there was a definite movement from the 1800s on that an architect should design a home as a whole, and have the skills to do it competently.

Gesamtkunstwerk!

/that's a fun term to type

painless42: I like Modernism and Zen minimalism, but that place... wow. It's beautiful as an art piece, but seems like it would be impossible to actually live in and feel comfortable. The second you put your kid's soccer photo up on the wall or your own mementos on any surface, it ruins the effect. If I lived in in this house I'd imagine I'd feel like I was at constant war with it, altering my entire lifestyle and what I own, just to accommodate the artistic beauty of the house.

/Of course I'm known to sit around in my bathrobe and a Blue Sun tee-shirt scratching my balls and drinking root beer, so you know...YMMV and all that

Yes. If you posess the means to have any home you can imagine; you might as well imagine your own perfect home and find it, or have it built.

What the article leaves out is that the "private beach access" leads to Black's Beach, a nude beach.