Stone, glass and quiet geometry. A house edited for clarity. The idea: a single-storey Mid-Century Modern house by Richard Frazer, built in 1956 for the producer Stanley Rubin and the actress Kathleen Hughes: a low roof, a stone wall, glass to the garden. Before: the same family had lived here for nearly seventy years. When the house was sold in 2023 it was still the original, untouched.
The intervention: the house was rebuilt to the studs. Terrazzo floors throughout, a new kitchen, a glass-lined primary suite, a new freeform pool and spa, and a desert garden of cactus and boulders where the lawn had been. Material and detail: stacked stone, lacquered orange doors, terrazzo, full-height glass, a red mobile in the entry court. Robb Report published the house in November 2024. Photography: Matthew Momberger, for Robb Report, 2024.
