Frank Gehry's Bonkers Pop-Out Bedroom Wants $5.2M | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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Pritzker Prize-winning starchitect and bashed-in sardine can king Frank Gehry just couldn't leave this Santa Monica home, built in 1959, alone. The boxy, brick-front entrance looks pretty normal, the interiors aren't exactly head-turning, and then—bam, there it is!—a pop-out master bedroom juts whimsically out over the house beneath. This one's been touched by Gehry, all right.

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Currently home to fashion designer Jennifer Nicholson, daughter of actor Jack Nicholson, this 4,032-square-foot, five-bedroom abode is listed for $5.2M, a steal compared to other Gehry homes listed in the past. Then again, this looks more like a Gehry addition—part of a 1985 renovation, perhaps—than a soup-to-nuts Gehry design. The property has a somewhat boho feel, albeit with some some luxurious details, like a massive hot tub, a ridiculously extravagant marble shower, and what the brokerbabble refers to as "refinished 18th Century hand-sawn Connecticut barn wood floors." Plus, there's that angular treehouse of a bedroom presiding over it all.
So Gehry name was certainly involved, the home lacks the mind-bending, deconstructionist design of the architect's more current, non-residential projects—not necessarily a bad thing, according to many a critic.



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