A nice bit of 1997 conspicuous consumption: 4100 square feet on a 5400 sf lot, 6 bedrooms & 5 1/2 baths (including a detached guest apartment over the three car garage. Designed by Apollo Guizot (whoever that is – I’ve never heard of him) "after Pasadena’s Gamble House." High-end kitchen, cherry built-ins, large wine cooler; Honduran Mahogany & Indonesian Teak accents, stained-glass windows, the required spa tub for two and large master closet. Unfortunately, it looks a bit thrown-together, as if it were designed by several different architects; the master bath, all white-on-white, is straight out of 1979, while some rooms have a generic character broken up only by pretty light fixtures or built-ins.
It’s at 560 35th (at Blanche) in Manhattan Beach’s Tree Section; next to Sand Dune Park, and unfortunately just a few blocks away from one of the Southern California’s largest oil refineries (and, on a positive note, the beach).
More Arts and Crap than Arts and Crafts
Ooo, Marblebhead — harsh! I like the exterior, but why on earth would you want a wine cooler in the living room?
My cousin used to live in Manhattan Beach, tear-downs and ostentatious rebuilds seem to be the rule.
marblehead – i hear you – sometimes the truth hurts. it’s like they took a mediocre ranch house, glued on some really nice bits of trim and stuff, and are trying to market it as a craftsman bungalow. w t f?
I don’t see any Gamble House influence except for the dark shingles on the outside. Gah.
FWIW, though, being near the refinery — that means El Porto (oops, sorry, El Norte — oops, make that North Manhattan Beach) which has the nicest surf break in the South Bay, and probably the nicest south of Malibu for the Santa Monica Bay.