Pasadena’s storied Thomson Residence by architects Buff, Straub & Hensman is on the market for $2.125m, and the early post-and-beam design has undergone a total restoration.
The 1957 California property is among the Case Study architecture firm’s earliest experiments with interlocking beams – a style that emerged from the USC School of Architecture. It was given an award-winning refurbishment by subsequent owners, Christophe Burusco and Scott Lander of Lander Design, which won the City of Pasadena Preservation Award in 2012.
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To roll back decades of wear and tear the duo restored every surface of the four-bedroom midcentury property – once photographed by Julius Schulman and now on the market via Deasy Penner Podley – and updated its bathroom and kitchen with modern appliances.
As well as walls of glass and exposed beams throughout, The Thomson Residence has board-and-batten walls, Formica surfaces, cork flooring and shoji sliding screens. An original redbrick fireplace takes pride of place in the soaring two-storey living room.
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