Schindler's Schlessinger House comes back on the market after a careful renovation

Update:  the house has closed sale at well over asking price.

List price:  $1,149,000, sold for $1,185,000

Address:  1901 Myra Street, Los Feliz

1258 Square feet - 2 bedrooms, 2 baths

Commissioned and conceived in 1952, the Philip & Phyllis Schlessinger House, designed by RM Schindler, is back on the market after A complete and careful renovation.  With Schindler’s passing in 1953 before breaking ground, this would be the site of the last home he would design.   A young John Reed was hired to provide additional plans and oversee construction. Budgetary constraints as well as owner preferences led to several changes in the subsequent plans.  

Having purchased the home from the Schlessinger estate, the current owner set about to sensitively restore and align it more closely to the original Schindler plan. Every inch of wood, glass, and stucco was either restored or replaced.  With Eric Lamers overseeing the restoration, it could not have been placed in better hands. In an effort to follow what were believed to have been Schindler’s intentions for the house, every decision was painstakingly considered. A fitting tribute to a great architect’s last work, and now an incredibly moving example of his much celebrated architecture of space.  The home is at 1901 Myra Street in the Franklin Hills overlooking the shakespeare bridge,  2 beds, 2 baths + den and listed for $1,149,000.  Call me for a private showing.  

New to the market: Los Feliz Modern being "flipped"

List price:  $2,299,000

Address:  4153 Cromwell Ave, Los Feliz

2784 Square feet - 3 bedrooms, 4 baths

This stunning example of 60's modern architecture has been beautifully and thoughtfully updated blending exquisite finishes and top of the line appliances with the clean lines and powerful angles that have made this a one of kind home since it's original creation in 1966. With generous outdoor space and seamless indoor / outdoor flow and a open multilevel floor plan, allowing great flow amongst the space.  Features a detached maids quarters/office....welcome home. 

Los Feliz and Griffith Park - Home to Puma P-22

Did you know that Los Angeles has 390 public parks and 15, 710 acres of parkland? One of the area’s most popular and well known parks is Griffith Park, which, at over 4,000 acres, is the nation’s largest urban municipal park. By comparison, New York City’s Central Park is only 843 acres in size.

While Griffith Park gets 10 million visitors annually, who like to play golf and tennis, attend concerts at the Greek Theater, or hike its many trails, there is one particular park “visitor” that has captured L.A.’s attention: “P-22.”

P-22 is a puma, or mountain lion, who somehow wandered over to Griffith Park from the Santa Monica Mountains, and now calls the park home. He had to get across the busy 101 and 405 freeways to get to Griffith Park.

Don’t worry—you probably won’t see P-22 in person if you visit. Some wildlife researchers have seen him, but then again they were on the hunt to find him. As the 22nd mountain lion that Santa Monica Mountains National Park Service biologists have found, he got the name Puma 22, or P-22.

P-22 has become somewhat of a cult celebrity in L.A., with his own Twitter account(s) of all things!

At night, P-22 eats mule deer, raccoon and coyote to stay alive. During the day, he rests among dense vegetation, elusive to park guests. So far, he’s happily at home in Griffith Park. As the only mountain lion in the park, he has no competition for food.

How do people know P-22 really exists? A remote camera set up for a wildlife survey caught the puma’s face in 2012. Later that year, scientists set a humane trap with cameras to be able to see the lion in person. After the lion received a sedative from a blow dart, scientists attached a collar that would allow them to track the whereabouts of P-22. That’s how scientists know specifically what P-22 eats—researchers are able to track the animal and go to places where he killed his prey.

P-22 is a relatively young mountain lion, and it’s most likely he’ll leave the park and head east to the Santa Monica Mountains to find a mate when he gets older.