Neutra’s Case Study House #20—the Bailey House—appeared on the market last summer as the guest house on a two-residence estate in Pacific Palisades.
This winter, the estate sold. According to public records, the architecturally significant home represented $11.25 million of a total closing that amounted to over $17 million. As it is less historically important, the larger of the two homes sold for just under $6 million, around half the showing of the Richard Neutra-designed Bailey House.
It measures in at 7,124 sq. ft. The 2010-built home features a mix of Modern and Italian design influences, blending the strident lines and glassiness of the former with the softness and romance of the latter. It features an indoor arcade which, by virtue of fold-away glass walls, becomes a loggia, and a great room with a double-height ceiling and a wraparound second-floor gallery.
As for the Neutra, it has been renovated in keeping with its immediate post-WWII build date, and contains plentiful original details from its early midcentury origins. Original paneling, series clerestories, and a kitchen expressed in primary colors—and containing an antique fridge—are a few of the home’s highlights. It measures in at less than 2,000 sq. ft., with three bedrooms and two baths in all.
The seller was Australian native and women’s wear entrepreneur Lorna Jane.