Do I hear $16 million?

Sometimes an auction has nothing to do with foreclosure. News item from New York Times via Curbed Los Angeles: The Kaufmann House, a 1946 glass, steel and stone landmark built by architect Richard Neutra outside Palm Springs, is on the auction block. The pre-sale estimate: $15 million to $25 million.

The N.Y. Times reports the auction -- to be held at Christie's in New York next May -- is an effort at "promoting architecture as a collectible art worthy of the same consideration as painting and sculpture."

The owners, Brent Harris, an investment manager at PIMCO, and Beth Edwards Harris, an architectural historian, are finalizing their divorce, the N.Y. Times reports.

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Comments

[Paul Hiller]

This house is the real deal. A lot of critics consider it one of the most important homes in the country, up there with Gropius, and Fallingwater. It’s had its ups and downs with the real estate market, so I expect it to have a tough time fetching the 15-25 million.

[l.a. guy]

Don't forget, if you're collecting Neutra's on a budget, you can buy one right here in LA for a mere $2,295,000

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2007/10/inside_the_neut.php

[ProblemWithCaring]

Well, heck, bargain hunters -

Kate in the Vally found one on the market in Sherman Oaks:

http://thefifthofmay.blogspot.com/2007/10/
theres-neutra-on-block.html

Don't look at the MLS pictures. Just don't.

[Mark G]

Look, it's silly to discuss this house in the context of the housing slump. This is more like discussing the price of collector items or art. If I was a part of the Hilton family, I would buy this in a heartbeat.