$2,795,000

There is a particular kind of quiet that only comes from Laurel Canyon the kind you feel before you see it. Set back from the road on a flag lot, this post-and-beam announces itself slowly, the way the best mid-century houses always do: not with a facade, but with… Read More an approach. In a neighborhood built on visibility, this one does the opposite the setback strips away the noise before you've reached the door. Los Angeles architect and landscape designer Leonardo Chalupowicz led the restoration, peeling back decades of well-intentioned updates to recover the home's original lines the clean structural logic and honest materials that defined the era. It's the difference between a house that looks mid-century and one that simply is.Inside, a vintage Malm fireplace anchors the main living space the sculptural, freestanding kind mid-century architects treated as furniture rather than infrastructure. Alongside it, Bouquet Canyon stone brings texture no contemporary material can replicate. These are artifacts of the period itself, not references to it. The primary bath tells a quieter story. Interior designer David Netto worked the space in Carrara marble with Waterworks chrome fixtures a palette that reads as restraint until you notice how precisely every decision was made.The walls carry their own history. Long before this restoration, the house operated as a recording studio sessions here included the Beastie Boys, Fiona Apple, and Cheech & Chong. More recently, the living room has served as a stage in its own right, hosting house concerts by Amyl & the Sniffers and Ninajirachi, and Kim Petras lived here while making her breakout album, Detour. It's the kind of layered, unbilled provenance that only turns up on a handful of streets in Laurel Canyon.Context here is closer to the thesis than the footnote. The home sits just below the Mulholland Tennis Club, inside the Wonderland Avenue Elementary boundary one of the city's most sought-after school communities. Directly across the street: Pierre Koenig's Bailey House, Case Study House #21. To live here is to wake up across from the canon, a daily reminder of the lineage this street represents. Beyond the property line, some of the city's best hiking trails begin minutes away. What makes this house notable is the accumulation a flag lot's rare privacy, an architecturally faithful restoration, design pedigree in the bath, original mid-century materials, a recording and performance history few homes can claim, a coveted school district, and a location where history itself is the view.Mid-century modernism has spent two decades being referenced and diluted. This house is a reminder of what the style meant the first time: clarity of structure, honesty of material, and a relationship to landscape that never needed embellishment. On a street defined by one of the great houses in American architecture, this restoration doesn't compete with that legacy it simply continues it. Read Less

Property listed by PLG Estates, Peter Lorimer 310-788-0700

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Last Updated

Sep 12, 2026

Property Type

SingleFamilyResidence

Beds

Full Baths

Square Ft.

2,844

Lot Size

0.27 Acres

Year Built

1960

MLS Number

26870735

Additional Details

Appliances & Equipment

Dishwasher, GasCooktop, Microwave, RangeHood, Dryer, Washer

Building

Built in 1960, Living area: 2844.0, 1 storey, Levels: One

Cooling

CentralAir

Fireplaces

FreeStanding

Floors

Wood

Heating

Central

Interior Features

BreakfastBar

Laundry

LaundryRoom

Lot

0.2684 acres, Dimensions: 139x88

Parking

6 open parking spaces, 6 total parking spaces, Driveway, Gated, Private

Pool

Heated, InGround

Property

TreesWoods

Taxes

Additional parcels description:, Parcel Number: 5564015041, Zoning: LARE15

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