Upheavals in the 1980s meant the loss of many of Lautner’s original fixtures and fittings and by the time the last owner, actor and director Vincent Gallo, sold up, the Garcia house needed some ...

Perched nimbly on one side of the Hollywood Hills along Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, John Lautner’s futuristic Garcia House is one of the most enduring specimens of the midcentury modern movement.

Rising steeply above a ravine in the Hollywood Hills, Nina and Andreas Grueter’s concrete home conjures a villain’s lair in a James Bond thriller — John Lautner’s Brutalist Elrod House in ...