Sheats Goldstein Residence
- Architect
- John Lautner
- Style
- organic
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Sheats–Goldstein Residence is a cave-like hillside house designed by John Lautner between 1961 and 1963 in the Beverly Crest neighborhood, built for Helen Carolyn Sheats, an architectural designer and Neo-Fauvist painter, and Paul Henry Sheats, Dean of UCLA's University Extension. Lautner used the sandstone ledge on the site as his design inspiration, shaping the house to take advantage of dramatic views over Benedict Canyon and Beverly Hills.
the building
Sandstone ledge as design driver. Rather than clearing the hillside site, Lautner treated its sandstone ledge as the starting point for the design, producing a cave-like dwelling that grows out of the rock rather than sitting on top of it.
the style
The house exemplifies both Mid-Century Modern design and the American Organic Architecture ethos, deriving its form as an extension of its natural site and of the family for whom it was built rather than from any applied decorative style.
the architect
John Lautner's work was consistently shaped by the specific challenges of a site, and the Sheats–Goldstein Residence follows that pattern; the Sheats family had previously commissioned Lautner for an earlier project before this house.
nearby
- Falcon Lair
- Harold Lloyd Estate
- Beverly Hills Women's Club
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- Beverly Hills Hotel
- Royce Hall