Frank Lloyd Wright house -- $7.73 million
November 23, 2008 | 1:00
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Photographs by Scott Mayoral La Miniatura, 645 Prospect Crescent, Pasadena, still on the market at $7,733,000. |
| By Diane Wedner, Times Staff Writer August 24, 2008 
La Miniatura -- built in Pasadena in 1923 -- is remarkable, even by Frank Lloyd Wright standards. One of only four of the famed architect's local textile-block designs, this renovated home is considered by some to be the most romantic of that style, which features an open floor plan, a seamless indoor-outdoor flow and roof terraces for outdoor living, popularized in the early 20th century.Wright's textile-block creations were constructed of precast concrete blocks with patterned exterior surfaces through which natural light flows; the pattern of the blocks varies on each project. Read more >>> |
