A landmark Studio City home by modernist architect Rudolph M. Schindler, fresh from a decade-long restoration project, has sold for $4.88 million.
The boomerang-shaped residence that Schindler built for client Richard Lechner in 1947 was restored by Pamela Shamshiri, one-half of the sister-and-brother design firm Studio Shamshiri.
She bought the house in 2008. In July 2019, she put the Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument up for sale at $4.8 million.
The 3,539-square-foot, four-bedroom house is perched on a hill that overlooks Laurel Canyon.
Glass walls and clerestory windows offer treetop views from nearly every room, from the galley kitchen to the great room with its angular stainless-steel fireplace, built-in sofas and pull-out dining table and chairs.
But it’s not exactly as Schindler left it.
Shamshiri created a master bathroom with a cedar soaking tub
As the listing pointed out, the Lechner House is one of the largest designs in the architectural oeuvre of the Austria-born protege of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Tori Horowitz of Compass was the listing agent. Stefani Stolper Schmacker, also of Compass, represented the buyer. The home sold on Aug. 15.
