This angular residence just south of the Trousdale Estates was built by Lloyd Wright in 1958 for steel magnate Jack J. Levant. Per its listing, the four bedroom, three and a half bath home has undergone “recent interior & exterior renovation,” and judging from the photos, the recipe called for an entire quarry’s worth of marble. Other features include two fireplaces, new appliances, heated pool, and sweeping views. Sited on a one-acre lot, the property is being offered for lease at $8,500/month.

As part of the John Lautner one hundredth birthday celebrations, the Lautner Foundation and the MAK Center opened up four of Lautner’s houses for a tour this past weekend. On Monday we visited the Sheats-Goldstein House, on Tuesday we poked around the Harpel House in the Hollywood Hills, yesterday we saw the Jacobsen House in the Cahuenga Pass, and we end our week-long odyssey in Benedict Canyon with the Schwimmer House.

Photos by Elizabeth Daniels While John Lautner designed some dramatic spaces, we’re not sure we’d think of him as the go-to guy for a castle in the hills. But that’s what Dr. Alden Schwimmer wanted, and the result is the 1982 Schwimmer House in Benedict Canyon. The whole thing is a sort of rainbow shape, with a hallway hugging the hillside, then an arc of public spaces and master suite, a row of huge stone towers, and a long terrace curved around the outside. On the lower level, a pool cantilevers over the hill. The six towers (some contain bathrooms, one’s a bar, another’s a pantry) are pretty castley, and so is the spiral front staircase (carpeted in red). If you wanted, you could even imagine Marimekko-clad sentries posted along the outdoor walkways, which feel like they go on for miles. · Inside John Lautner’s Dangerous Sheats-Goldstein House [Curbed LA] · Outside John Lautner’s Painstakingly Resurrected Harpel House [Curbed LA] · Inside John Lautner’s Little Hexagonal-Framed Jacobsen House [Curbed LA] read more…