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| Pivoting walls offer ocean front views. (above( |
People who live in glass houses…are fortunate if they live in places like this!
Architect Dan Brunn’s Challenge
Okay…this is perhaps one of the coolest hones I have seen in a while. It’s a modern glass house located in Venice Beach. Architect Dan Brunn was given free rein and $8 million dollars from a Los Angeles-based couple to create this Venice Beach home. The couple’s only requirements were that there should be no brown in the house and they needed a place to hang their art and photography they have collected over the years.
Innovative Design: The Flip Flop House
Architect Brunn’s solution was to create a house with louvered walls – pivoting walls! These turning panels create wall space so that the couple’s art could be displayed while also allowing for fantastic oceanfront views! The turning walls inspire the Flip Flop House name.
Features of the Modern Beach House
The house is tres modern (my way of saying ultra modern). Sleek Terrazzo floors, shiny Valcucine white glass cabinets, stainless steel wrapped structural columns and tons and tons of floor to ceiling glass imported from Switzerland. 5700 square feet. A modern wonder beach house!
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| Side view of the home with the louvered walls that open and close. (above) |
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| Louvered walls allow art to displayed but then open to show off the fantastic ocean views. (above) |
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| Stainless steel columns and floor to ceiling windows in the family room. (above) |
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| White glass modern flat front cabinetry surround the television in the family room (above) |
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| Staircase has glass rail with Terrazzo covered floors |
What do you think of this house? Would you want to live in a house with flip flopping walls? I would!
Beautifully done by the architect!
Happy Monday!
xo
Coco
Photos: New York Times; Dan Brunn
The flip-flop is very cool. The view is gorgeous. The house itself is way too cold and sterile for my taste. Fun post tho!
I haven’t seen this kind of architecture. This is beyond my imagination and the Interior Designs are fabulous. Thanks for sharing..
Ugly and unlivable.
Just think of all the finger prints on the walls and especially all that glass!
Gorgeous house! Love the wraparound pool and exteriors too!
Love it.
Gorgeous. I’d live here in a heartbeat. The only thing (which is my preference) is that I’d change the flooring on the 2nd and 3rd level to wood or concrete. I hate the white ceramic, marble, or epoxy flooring in contemporary homes like this; I think it makes it look like a museum. I like to soften up contemporary looks with wood or concrete floors (not an oxymoron; just natural materials). With that said, I love the house and the location. Perfect.
Love, love it! I really want to sit it when the art has been hung!
xoxo
Karena
2013 Artists Series
I love the house and the idea of the louvred walls for ventilation… but being practical – the artwork would become damaged and fade from exposure to the elements and sunlight – you wouldn’t want to put anything too valuable up. It also wouldn’t meet building codes here as anyone particularly children could fall out? from an upper storey?
Does anyone know how many bedrooms this place has? It’s absolutely stunning and perfect for a retired couple, a single person, or childless couples. Beautiful.