Frank Lloyd Wright mentored over 600 architects at his Arizona studio Taliesin West, spreading his ideas about organic design across the country through a generation of his proteges. Among them was California architect Frederick Liebhardt, who later designed this light-filled pavilion-like home near San Diego, which features a distinctive zig-zag roof.

The Del Mar home was commissioned by businessman Charles Dupont in 1961 on a 3.18-acre plot in the Montecillo neighbourhood, roughly a decade after Liebhardt’s time at Taliesin. And while the California property encapsulates many of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ideas around light and connection to nature, it shows Leibhardt’s own ideas and aesthetic as an architect, straddling California Modernism and organic modernism.

The six-bedroom Del Mar property is on the market for the first time, with an asking price of $6.955m via Scott Appleby and Kerry Payne of Willis Allen Real Estate.  It features a distinctive folded plate roof, which gives it a striking modern silhouette, and an extensive use of glass, playing with ideas around transparency.

Inside is a sunken living room with built-in furniture designed especially for the home (another lesson imparted by Frank Lloyd Wright) and a colossal copper fireplace flanked by wood panelling.

Famed photographer Julius Shulman photographed the dwelling in the 1960s. It has been owned by the same family for 58 years, and they have maintained its character and design according to Liebhardt’s vision.

The main house is accompanied by a detached pool/tennis house with a full kitchen, fireplace and a vintage dry sauna that overlooks the tennis court . Kitsch 1970s floor tiling with a tennis ball motif adds to the playful vibe.

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