Mid-Century Homes

British actor Jason Statham bought this midcentury butterfly roof home in an enviable location just above Sunset Boulevard, one of the most iconic places in Los Angeles.

This original 1958 midcentury home in Hermosa Beach, California, was updated with the addition of a butterfly roof, and a rooftop deck.

Architects was commissioned by a film director and his philanthropist wife to renovate and modernize the iconic Wolff House in West Hollywood, designed in 1961 by the visionary architect, John Lautner, for concert pianist and interior decorator Marco Wolff.

Clients enlisted architects to help them select an appropriate midcentury home to fit their modern-day needs and also to reinvent its almost forgotten existence into a modernist retreat.

“Mid Century Modern Resto-vation” best describes the why and the what for this iconic original Carter Sparks designed and Streng Brothers built transformation, located on the American River in Sacramento, CA.

Taliesin Fellow Frederick Liebhardt designed the Bishop Ranch House in 1962 for the Bishop family, at inland Monterey County.

When Mid-Century enthusiasts purchased the original 1800sf home in Austin, Texas, it had long been forgotten about and was nearly re-claimed by the native vegetation of an adjacent creek. 

This home in Lafayette, California, was designed by celebrated architect Cliff May – renowned for developing the surburban post-war “dream home”.

This is a rehabilitation of a midcentury home in Little Rock, Arkansas. Architects were brought in to bring this home back to life. We spoke with the Jennifer Herron, AIA, to learn more about the project.

When this split-level bungalow in Toronto, Canada, designed in 1955 by British-born architect Basil Capes, was listed for sale architecture buffs Anda Kubis and her husband Dean Martin just had to take a look.

Loader Monteith has carefully restored High Sunderland, the 1957 modernist icon designed by Peter Womersley for internationally-renowned textile designers Bernat and Margaret Klein, which required sensitive and complex restoration after weather and fire damage in 2017. 

Nestled in a wooded, urban lot, in Lawrence, Kansas, this authentic midcentury modern home underwent an extensive renovation to modernize the surfaces and systems while preserving the charm and essence of the original structure.

The Fournier residence, located in Fairway, Kansas, was originally designed by Ralph Fournier, a well-known St Louis modern architect. The design was for a semi-prefabricated home for the Modular Homes Company based in St Louis. 

Boomerang House in Portland, Oregon, underwent a full remodel. We had the chance to speak with the architects of this renovation to learn more about this project and its challenges and end result.

This home displays a class midcentury modern palette, through its layers of rich timber floorboards, to oak cabinetry and darker hues.

Perched on Palmero Drive and originally built in 1955, the newly reimagined 8,400-square-foot home unfolds against a backdrop of the iconic Los Angeles skyline.

This renovation honors the original open concept of the house while raising the level of the home with a crisp, more streamlined aesthetic.

This is the full remodel of a 1951 mid-century modern home in Los Angeles. A narrow living room, dining room, and den were combined and enlarged to create a new foyer and spacious great room open to the backyard.

Exemplifying spatial clarity and the hallmarks of pure geometry and materiality that would come to define his larger commissions, architect Louis I. Kahn’s Margaret Esherick House represents one of nine houses built from his designs.

This home is located in the historic Huntridge neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada and was built in 1958. We had the chance to tour the home and meet the owners during the Home + History Las Vegas Tour as part of Nevada Preservation.

This 1963 midcentury home near Piestewa Peak was originally designed by Architect Fredrick Fleener as a McCall’s Magazine ‘Certified’ home.

Nestled in the Upper North Shore of Sydney, this home fuses modernist influences with a signature sense of ease and adaptability.

This home in Encino, California, built in 1959, had just one original owner. Prior to the renovation, the home felt like a 1960s time capsule with wood paneling, bright red carpeted floors, and large tile retro flooring.

The renovation project took place in one of the houses designed by Jorge Zalszupin, a Polish-born Brazilian architect who became an icon of Brazilian modernism.