Landmark to the highest bidder
Just listed: 2BR, 2BA. Nice street. Great views. $2.5 million OBO.
THE price would be crazy if the property in question wasn’t Case Study House No. 21, the late Pierre Koenig’s 1958 landmark in the hills of West Hollywood. Owner Mark Haddawy has announced that he’s putting the house up for auction -- and all of its period furnishings are going with it. “I never thought I’d sell it,” says Haddawy, co-owner of the vintage clothing store Resurrection. “After struggling with the thought of leaving, it’s what made the most sense.” He bought the house four years ago but has since begun living with his girlfriend, actress Nora Zehetner, and the design -- two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room laid out in an open plan -- doesn’t afford enough separation between work and play for the busy couple. Furniture and decorative objects he painstakingly selected for the space, including a prized suite of Poul Kjaerholm furniture and a Craig Ellwood-designed music cabinet, will be sold as separate lots in a Dec. 3 sale run by the auction house Wright. For the catalog, the company commissioned Julius Shulman to reshoot the house he photographed 47 years ago. As for Haddawy and Zehetner: They’re moving to the 1956 Harpel residence by John Lautner, built near his famed Chemosphere house. Wright: (312) 563-0020.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Oct. 7, 2006 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Saturday October 07, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 0 inches; 30 words Type of Material: Correction
Table price: An Aug. 24 Home brief on the introduction of designer Zaha Hadid’s Aqua Table at the L.A. showroom Twentieth listed the price as $27,000. The table costs $23,995.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday October 12, 2006 Home Edition Home Part F Page 7 Features Desk 0 inches; 30 words Type of Material: Correction
Table price: An Aug. 24 Home brief on the introduction of designer Zaha Hadid’s Aqua Table at the L.A. showroom Twentieth listed the price as $27,000. The table costs $23,995.
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FINDS
A steal at $27,000
What does a $296,000 table look like? The prototype for Zaha Hadid’s Aqua Table fetched that astronomical sum at auction house Phillips de Pury’s Dec. 8 sale. Now the fluid form -- a polyurethane base with an undulating silicone tabletop -- has been reproduced by Established & Sons in a limited edition of 12. The L.A. showroom Twentieth is getting an all-black version of the edition shown here, and it will retail for a measly $27,000. (323) 904-1200.
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SAVE
Vintage nuts and bolts
It happens only once a year: the sidewalk sale at Liz’s Antique Hardware, the La Brea Avenue resource for vintage cabinet handles, doorknobs, hooks, house numbers, finials and other vintage decor. Through Sept. 6, select merchandise is 25% to 50% off. The Basta, above, a 1970s Danish lighting fixture originally priced at $175, is marked down to $87.50. Original 1930s Bakelite pieces transformed into cabinet hardware, previously $3 to $5 each, are selling for $2.25 to $3.75. (323) 939-4403, www.lahardware.com.
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OPENINGS
Another gallery, this time by the Bay
First came the Museum of Design Art and Architecture, a new exhibition space from Studio Pali Fekete Architects in Culver City. Then came the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, which reopened on L.A.’s Museum Row. Now, it’s San Francisco’s turn. The Center for Architecture + Design will host tours, present lectures and showcase notable West Coast design in a gallery fittingly located inside an architectural landmark: the 1917 Hallidie Building, one of the country’s first glass-curtain-walled buildings. Previews are scheduled for next month; the official opening is slated for Oct. 3. (415) 362-7397, www.aiasf.org.
