[Photos by Lance Gerber / Nuvue Interactive]
The listing call this house "the most important architectural house you may have never seen" and yes yes yes, it's obviously flown under the radar for way too long. In the late '80s, artist Beverly Doolittle and her husband Jay owned 10 beautiful acres in Joshua Tree and they tracked down super-organic architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, who immediately fell in love with the site. Beverly tells the Desert Sun "He was jumping all over the rocks like a mountain goat. He had been looking for rocks to build on." The couple gave him free rein and in 1988 work began on this concrete, steel, glass, and copper house, placed perfectly naturally on the rocky site and looking from the top kind of like a ribcage.
The house was finished in 1993 but interior designer John Vugrin
spent several years making "tweaks." The Doolittles didn't move in
until the early aughts and now they want to downsize. They're selling
this gem—perfect for the fashionable Bond villain—for $3 million.
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