1936 - Joseph Kun Residence (streetview)
Richard Neutra's Kun House I, 7960 Fareholm Drive, Los Angeles CA. Architect Richard Neutra. Designed with Gregory Ain. Sold to Bruce and Kimi Westcott. Sold in 2008 to Gerald V. Casale as a trust. Brilliantly restored by Casale, James Rega, and Christopher Steele. Won a 2015 LA Conservancy Award. Gerald Casale Puts His Hollywood Hills Richard Neutra Masterpiece On The Market (01/27-2015).
Richard Neutra — the Viennese architect who took the cool, polished details of European Modernism and adapted it to the California landscape — designed this sleek house in stucco, steel, and glass for journalist Joseph Kun in 1936. After a series of owners (Neutra went on to build another house for this client nearby, known as Kun House #2) Devo co-founder Gerald Casale, a longtime admirer of the house, bought it in 2007 and embarked on a seven-year restoration. Casale put the 3-bed, 2-bath house on the market with an asking price of $3.5M.
This house has a spectacular city and ocean view. Beautifully restored and very nearly original. About 1700 square feet, you enter from Fareholm Drive into an airy entry pavilion, which opens onto a huge deck, with the most amazing vista. The entry pavilion has a terrific uplight, and like most of the house, has the original aluminum silver paint magnificently restored. The next level down has the living room and dining room, kitchen and laundry room. Down one more level are two nice bedrooms and two bathrooms. Each of these levels have very spacious wraparound decks. Below this are several terraced levels of landscaped grounds.
The Kun house is also important because a young photographer named Julius Shulman was so captivated by the house in 1936 that he took some casual snapshots of it, which got to the architect Neutra. Neutra was so impressed that he used Julius Shulman nearly exclusively for the rest of his career. Julius Shulman is now 97 years old and still taking great photographs.
Richard Neutra 1936 Kun House Priced at $3,500,000
Architect: Richard Neutra
Year of Completion: 1936
Property Type: Single-Family Residential
(3 Bedrooms - 2 Bathrooms)
House Size: 1,732 Sq Ft
Lot Size: 5,483 Sq Ft Lot
Architectural Style: International Style
Original Name: Joseph Kun Residence
Modernist architectural master Richard Neutra called this 1936 Hollywood Hills home his favorite of the period. Now, after a painstaking seven-year restoration, the home, a designated cultural heritage monument is offered for sale.
Price history 1936 Kun house
$3,400,000 03/06/2015 (Sold)
$3,500,000 01/19/2015 (Listed)
$2,000,000 01/29/2008 (Sold)
$2,295,000 10/25/2007 (Listed)
$1,400,500 03/14/2005 (Sold)
$1,400,003 08/02/2004 (Listed)
In 1985, the house was up for sale for $250K.
1936 - Joseph Kun Residence (streetview)
Richard Neutra's Kun House I, 7960 Fareholm Drive, Los Angeles CA. Architect Richard Neutra. Designed with Gregory Ain. Sold to Bruce and Kimi Westcott. Sold in 2008 to Gerald V. Casale as a trust. Brilliantly restored by Casale, James Rega, and Christopher Steele. Won a 2015 LA Conservancy Award. Gerald Casale Puts His Hollywood Hills Richard Neutra Masterpiece On The Market (01/27-2015).
Richard Neutra — the Viennese architect who took the cool, polished details of European Modernism and adapted it to the California landscape — designed this sleek house in stucco, steel, and glass for journalist Joseph Kun in 1936. After a series of owners (Neutra went on to build another house for this client nearby, known as Kun House #2) Devo co-founder Gerald Casale, a longtime admirer of the house, bought it in 2007 and embarked on a seven-year restoration. Casale put the 3-bed, 2-bath house on the market with an asking price of $3.5M.
This house has a spectacular city and ocean view. Beautifully restored and very nearly original. About 1700 square feet, you enter from Fareholm Drive into an airy entry pavilion, which opens onto a huge deck, with the most amazing vista. The entry pavilion has a terrific uplight, and like most of the house, has the original aluminum silver paint magnificently restored. The next level down has the living room and dining room, kitchen and laundry room. Down one more level are two nice bedrooms and two bathrooms. Each of these levels have very spacious wraparound decks. Below this are several terraced levels of landscaped grounds.
The Kun house is also important because a young photographer named Julius Shulman was so captivated by the house in 1936 that he took some casual snapshots of it, which got to the architect Neutra. Neutra was so impressed that he used Julius Shulman nearly exclusively for the rest of his career. Julius Shulman is now 97 years old and still taking great photographs.
Richard Neutra 1936 Kun House Priced at $3,500,000
Architect: Richard Neutra
Year of Completion: 1936
Property Type: Single-Family Residential
(3 Bedrooms - 2 Bathrooms)
House Size: 1,732 Sq Ft
Lot Size: 5,483 Sq Ft Lot
Architectural Style: International Style
Original Name: Joseph Kun Residence
Modernist architectural master Richard Neutra called this 1936 Hollywood Hills home his favorite of the period. Now, after a painstaking seven-year restoration, the home, a designated cultural heritage monument is offered for sale.
Price history 1936 Kun house
$3,400,000 03/06/2015 (Sold)
$3,500,000 01/19/2015 (Listed)
$2,000,000 01/29/2008 (Sold)
$2,295,000 10/25/2007 (Listed)
$1,400,500 03/14/2005 (Sold)
$1,400,003 08/02/2004 (Listed)
In 1985, the house was up for sale for $250K.