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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Richard Neutra's Singleton House

I recently ran across an extremely interesting Architectural Digest article which chronicles the restoration of Richard Neutra's 1950s Singleton House in Bel Air by the late hair stylist Vidal Sassoon and his wife Ronnie.

When the couple found the 4700 square foot house, which had sat unoccupied for two years, it was in such poor condition that a section of the roof collapsed two weeks after closing. A couple of months later, part of the property slid into a neighbor's yard. However, Ronnie was determined to restore the house. She began familiarizing herself with Neutra's work and studying pictures of the Singleton House taken by Julius Shulman when the home was new.

After considerable reconstruction, here are the results of the renovation.

From architecturaldigest.com
All photos from Architectural Digest


















Vidal Sassoon died in May of this year. To get the whole story about the 2004 renovation, read the entire article, entitled "Vidal Sassoon's Modernist Retreat."