{"id":322244,"date":"2025-11-30T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/322244\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:26:11","slug":"r-m-schindlers-lechner-house-in-l-a-lists-for-6-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/322244\/","title":{"rendered":"R.M. Schindler\u2019s Lechner House in L.A. Lists for $6.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAustrian-born architect R.M. Schindler<\/a>, one of the undisputed mavericks of the early to mid-twentieth century, spent a decade working for Frank Lloyd Wright before he landed in Los Angeles<\/a>, where he merged the rigorous geometries of early European modernism with California\u2019s relaxed lifestyle.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the mid-1940s, Dr. Richard Lechner and his wife commissioned the innovative architect to build a home in a wooded glade in the foothills of L.A.\u2019s Studio City<\/a>. All but hidden behind a zigzagging wall draped with bougainvillea and hugging its sloped site, the house is now lauded as one of the modernist mandarin\u2019s last masterpieces and reflects his experimental chutzpah and his long-standing commitment to unassuming materials, spatial rhythms, and integration with natural surroundings.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe Studio City home is privately enveloped by its wooded hillside setting.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSterling Reed for Sotheby\u2019s International Realty<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Midcentury Architect Craig Ellwood\u2019s Case Study House 16 in Bel Air Lists for $5.4 Million<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the U.S. Modernist<\/a>, architect Paul Sterling Hoag added a two-story addition with a guest room and bath in the mid-1980s. It was subsequently sold several times, in 1992, 1999, 2004, and again in 2008, at which point it was acquired by acclaimed designer Pamela Shamshiri of Studio Shamshiri<\/a> and her then-husband, film editor Haines Hall.<\/p>\n

\n\tShamshiri spearheaded a comprehensive two-year update and overhaul that is described on her firm\u2019s website as less a restoration than an \u201cexcavation\u201d and undoing of myriad bad renovations that left the original structure unrecognizable. Sheetrock was removed to reveal Schindler\u2019s plywood-paneled walls and the angular stainless-steel fireplace. Throughout, key elements were restored or reconstructed, while a purposeful evolution prepared the home for the 21stcentury. The firm\u2019s website says the house \u201cis decidedly a Schindler; it\u2019s just not your grandmother\u2019s Schindler.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTax records show Shamshiri sold the home in 2019 for $4.88 million to its current owners, German multidisciplinary artist Albert Oehlen<\/a> and his wife, Esther Fruend Oehlen, who oversaw an exterior restoration by the architecture studio Escher GuneWardena<\/a> along with a refresh of the grounds by Terremoto Landscape<\/a> and the rehabilitation of the original pool.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tUpdates remain true to Schindler\u2019s commitment to humble materials used in innovative ways.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSterling Reed for Sotheby\u2019s International Realty<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: L.A.\u2019s Iconic Stahl House Lists for $25 Million<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tToday, the 4,000-square-foot home still known as the Lechner House sprawls out over two floors with large windows that fill the house with dappled light filtered through the surrounding trees. Schindler\u2019s built-in sofas, now covered in marigold velvet, flank the revived fireplace in the living room, and a wall of glass opens the dining area to a large, tree-shaded deck above the pool. The long, narrow galley kitchen is bookended by a breakfast nook and a family room. Four bedrooms and three bathrooms, plus a powder room, include a lower-level primary suite with a plywood bathroom that opens to a flagstone terrace that meanders over to the pool.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe home, which sits on more than one-third of an acre, was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2013 and falls under the Mills Act, which trades strict preservation restrictions for substantially lower property tax. Stefani\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tStefani Schmacker at Sotheby\u2019s Int\u2019l Realty<\/a> and George Penner of Compass<\/a> share the $6.5 million listing.<\/p>\n

\n\tClick here<\/a> for more photos of the historic Los Angeles residence.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSterling Reed for Sotheby\u2019s International Realty<\/p>\n

\tAuthors<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tMark David\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Mark David got his start writing about real estate with the saucy cult-favorite blog The Real Estalker, on which he obsessively tracked the secretive world of celebrity property transactions. A much\u2026<\/p>\n

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