Photos: Midcentury Modern homes in Los Angeles

A view of Charles and Ray Eames’ historic residence in Pacific Palisades.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The 1967 Pacific Palisades home of renowned architect Ray Kappe is cited by design aficionados as perhaps the best-designed house in Los Angeles.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

View of upper deck den, front, living room and kitchen, far back, at the home of architect Ray Kappe.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Musician Brad Laner and his wife Nydia stand near the living room of their classic Eichler house in Granada Hills.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Edward Fickett homes are famous for their sleek one-story ranch design incorporating dramatic roof designs, lots of glass to bring the outdoors inside, and always a pool.   (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

A view out to the front deck and swimming pool of Don Hensman’s bachelor pad atop Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.   (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)

Twilight falls on the front of a midcentury home in Crestwood Hills.  (Richard Hartog / Los Angeles Times)

“Rapor (Sun House),” designed by midcentury architect Conrad Buff III. The home was originally built for the architect in the hills of Pasadena.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Architect William Krisel designed this Midcentury Modern tract house, often called a Butterfly House for its distinctive wing-like roof line.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

A 1970s home designed by architect A. Quincy Jones in Los Angeles.   (Christina House / For The Times)

Pasinetti House, a 1959 modernist home by Haralamb Georgescu.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Interior view of the Pasinetti House, a 1959 modernist home by Haralamb Georgescu, an architect who is not well known in L.A. but is revered in his native Romania.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The 1948 Beverly Hills house designed by Greta Magnusson Grossman.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The stone-covered fireplace repeats in the kitchen as the angled ceiling extends to the covered patio in the 1954 Daily House designed by architect Clair Earl in Glendale.   (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

The Brody House in Holmby Hills by A. Quincy Jones.   (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)