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The Villages Realty - Rodda Realty Team
1242 W Oceanfront, Newport Beach, CA 92661
- $18,800,000
- 4
- BD
- 4
- BA
Listed by Todd Bousman, 949-533-8633 from bouHAUS Properties
(If provided) CoList: Nate Cole from Modern California House
- List Price
- $18,800,000
- MLS#
- CRNP26242697
- Status
- ACTIVE
- Levels
- Three or More Stories
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Total Bathrooms
- 4
- Full Bathrooms
- 4
- Lot Size
- 3,734
- Listing Area
- Np - Balboa Peninsula
- Year Built
- 1926
Property Description
The Philip and Leah Lovell Beach House, R.M. Schindler (1926). One of the defining masterpieces of early California modernism, offered for the first time on the centenary of its completion. Widely recognized as "Schindler's second most important work" (Steele, 2005), the Lovell Beach House has served for the last 100 years as the Lovell family's personal oceanfront retreat. Now it seeks a steward who can enjoy and enrich the "playful mood of beach life" that Schindler sought to conjure up. When client and architect met in the early 1920s, Dr. Philip Lovell was a prominent naturopath; Schindler, born in Vienna, had come to Southern California to supervise Frank Lloyd Wright's projects in the region. For the young architect, Lovell's corner lot on Balboa Peninsula would become a laboratory of radical innovation. Inspired by the "pile structure indigenous to all beaches," Schindler lifted the house above the shore on five reinforced-concrete frames, each cast in the shape of a squared figure eight. The idea was "to assure an unobstructed outlook to the ocean," he wrote, with enough privacy for "an informal life behind open windows." Both windows and walls hang on steel rods from Schindler's concrete skeleton. From street level - with its garage, its enclosed studio and its garde
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Additional Information
- Acres
- 0.09
- Amenities
- Open Beam Ceiling, Storage Area(s), Balcony/Patio, Counters, Private Patio, High Ceiling, Other
- Bedroom Description
- 19
- Cooling System
- None
- Fence
- 19, 2, Wood
- Fireplace Description
- Gas Burning, Living Room, Other Location, Wood Burning
- Floor Covering
- Laminate
- Foundation
- Pillars / Posts / Piers, Combination, Concrete Slab
- Garage Parking
- Garage
- Heating System
- Gas, Central Forced Air
- Laundry Facilities
- Other, 38
- Levels
- Three or More Stories
- Lot Description
- Grade - Level
- Lot Size
- 3,734
- Neighborhood
- Np - Balboa Peninsula
- Other Rooms
- Bonus / Hobby Room, Safe / Panic / Room
- Other Utilities
- Electricity - On Site, Telephone - Not On Site
- Pool Description
- 31, None
- Roof
- Rolled Composition
- Style
- Contemporary
- Unincorporated Yn
- Yes
- View
- Bay View, Hills, Marina View, Neighborhood View, Ocean View, Other, Water, View of City Lights
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