A Carefully Preserved Midcentury Home in Southern California Is Listed for $8.8 Million
Palos Verdes Peninsula, about 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, is one of California’s wealthiest suburbs and has been home to a slew of Hollywood heavy hitters, sports stars and business leaders over the years, from Steven Spielberg to Oprah Winfrey and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. In the area’s coastal city of Rancho Palos Verdes, a carefully preserved 1950s residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright disciple Aaron G. Green has been owned since 2018 by Hiroki Nakamura, founder of the Japanese menswear brand Visvim. Now available via Nate Cole at Modern California House for $8.8 million, the oceanfront abode was completed in 1959 for Judge and Jeannie Anderson. Located at 8 Sea Cove Drive, the property sprawls out over 3.4 acres above Abalone Cove.
Green joined Wright’s revered apprenticeship group, the Taliesin Fellowship, in the early 1940s. Though not as well known as his mentor, his work spans six decades, during which time he built structures for both working and living. His work on the Anderson Residence is seen as an important example of his penchant for organic modernism, which blends midcentury minimalism with materials that reflect nature’s beauty.
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The home was set at an angle to work in tandem with the boundaries of the site and its natural settings, while the high bluff-top perch provides it with unimpeded vistas over the Pacific Ocean. Three bedrooms and two bathrooms are scattered across its 2,175 square feet, split into two wings. Redwood board-on-board paneling frames the home, and its wooden features continue indoors, where “kabob” style stone masonry gives it even more character. Soaring ceilings, angled walls, and built-in seating are other key elements.
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Referencing its original design and the surrounding foliage, Wright’s architect son, Eric Lloyd Wright, oversaw a 2003 renovation of the home that factored in a primary bath expansion, swimming pool update, and addition of an outdoor spa.
Nakamura bought the residence for $5.4 million through a limited liability company, property records show. He and his wife, Kelsi, later added two adjoining parcels, Mansion Global reported.
The designer’s Tokyo-based streetwear brand was founded in 2000 and has garnered a cult following over the years, taking up shelf space in luxury retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Dover Street Market in Los Angeles. With a predilection for architectural residences, Nakamura is known to have property on Tokyo’s Izu peninsula, and in 2017 he made headlines when he shelled out almost $7.5 million for architect Richard Neutra’s Schaarman House in L.A.’s Hollywood Hills.
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