Actor Joe Pesci listed his residence on the Jersey Shore, in Lavallette, this autumn. The 1990-built riff on early modern designs is asking $6.5 million.

The home’s architecture is at turns stodgily boxy and peculiarly graceful. There’s more than a little streamline influence here, most notably in the second-story superstructure-like master suite, which features a curving wall and is stacked on top of a first floor that’s extended to provide a master suite terrace. The façade contains several other rounded corners, one of which flanks the entrance.

The design incorporates a massive, semicircular clerestory embellishment; it rises up from the roofline as a transparent portal from front to back; it illuminates the center of the house and the staircase, and its barrel ceiling is one of the highlights of the 7,219 square feet of interiors. The rounded motif pops up now and then at judicious intervals to give the whole a sense of cohesion.

There’s a great deal of drama in the 8-bed, 8-bath home. Details include metallic surfaces, dark wood trim, and a few nods to high concept styling—most notably in the sculptural staircase, a semi-spiral floater that rises to a round portal cut into the second floor and boasts glass balusters and a black handrail.

In the back of the house, the streamline moderne influence really blossoms, and the curved upper floor walls and terraces riff heavily on the golden age of ocean liners. The exterior living space is a flat expanse only disrupted for the sake of a pool, and leads to a private deep-water dock.

Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 1990 blockbuster Goodfellas. He recently starred in Martin Scorcese’s The Irishman.