Film producer Joe Roth—who co-founded powerhouse production company Morgan Creek in the late 1980’s—has a new addition to his real estate portfolio. The very contemporary West Hollywood home is a very recent build, finished this year and snapped up by Mr. Roth for $3.499 million.

The house’s exterior is fairly imposing: ensconced behind a boundary wall, it is defined by fundamental geometric preoccupation, off-white stucco, steel, glass, and a bit of Japanese design influence. The façade has a little of the fortress about it, but, from the rear, the home opens nicely to interior/exterior interplay via a wall of glass that may be retracted to combine covered deck and main interior living space. Interior and exterior fireplaces flank each other in this central part of the home, each referencing the other playfully, suggesting balance.

The home’s interiors extend to 4,000 square feet; it contains five en-suite bedrooms, as well as an additional half-bath. The sense of openness is strongly capitalized on from the foyer, which soars to the second story, and is rimmed by an extended upstairs gallery.

There’s a good dose of the postmodern here; no pastiche, really, but surface texture is allowed to define the spaces, making visual interest the emphasis of the living areas. Varied wood grain, rusticated and smooth stone, gloss metal, and an emphasis on measurement give the home the familiar feel of an up-to-date contemporary: reticence of facile charm, and openness to interpretation.

Morgan Creek produced a few seminal pictures of the 1980’s and 1990’s, selecting potential arthouse/blockbuster crossovers in much the same way as Miramax, though with more limited success; title highlights include the fabulously weird Cronenberg study of identity ‘Dead Ringers.’ Roth himself took a turn in the director’s chair with 1990’s ‘Coupe de Ville,’ which starred actor, director, writer and National steel guitar player Alan Arkin.