This Berkeley property is sure to cause a buzz when it opens its doors to potential buyers soon — for architecture buffs, and particularly for those of us who have a weakness for mid-century Californian style.
Designed by architect Vernon DeMars as his home in 1941, the three-bedroom Asian-inspired house at 240 The Uplands is listing [...]
Posts under ‘Mid-century modern’
Berkeley: Vernon DeMars beauty in creekside setting
Mid-century modern home in park-like setting
At first glance, I thought that was a little helipad in the backyard of this freshly listed mid-century modern house at 626 Vistamont Avenue. On reflection it’s probably where a hot tub might be placed, under the trees with sylvan view to boot. Either way, this looks like an intriguing property.
There’s the setting — a 20,000 sq [...]
A Bit of a Bargain? Mid-Mod in North Berkeley
A trusted source tells me this home may be something of a bargain. True, the photo doesn’t exactly scream “buy me now”, but the home is in foreclosure which explains the lack of care taken with presenting it for sale.
Here’s the low-down: this mid-century modern home on a 10,695 sq ft lot at 1488 Olympus [...]
A Mid-Century Modern Redone in Berkeley Hills
Fresh on the market, and tucked up in the Berkeley/Claremont hills, is a 1950s home that has been given a modern makeover without taking away from the original aesthetic.
2 Gravatt Drive is set back on a secluded lot and it entrance is reached via a lovely front yard, landscaped with a contemporary pond and pretty paving.
Inside, I [...]
Look out for Roger Lee Mid-Mod in El Cerrito
On the market: this classic mid-century modern home on a generous lot in El Cerrito with a $1.15 million price tag. The 3/1.5 house at 1395 Rifle Range Road was designed in 1951 by Roger Lee, an architect whose work I have had the occasion to admire before. It comes with a swimming pool, sauna, as [...]
Donald Olsen Mid-Mod Lists in North Berkeley
Newly listed at 123 Fairlawn Drive, a home designed in 1956 by noted modernist architect Donald Olsen.
The four-bedroom house displays Olsen’s penchant for boxy volumes filled with lots of natural light. There’s also indoor-outdoor living possibilities, a more recently added “gourmet” kitchen, as well as views of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Olsen, a former professor at UC’s College of Environmental [...]
Mid-Mod Listing in North Berkeley Priced to Sell
If you are a fan of mid-century modern architecture (and I count myself in that club), you’ll be interested in a newly listed example of the style at 1175 Spruce Street in north Berkeley [hat-tip: reader Debtpocalypse].
Before even perusing the photos you may be stopped in your tracks by the price. At $399,000 this home [...]
“Silly” Kensington Listing Finds Buyer
Back in November, reader Debtpocalypse alerted us to a listing at 252 Stanford Avenue in Kensington (above). He wrote: “$1.7 million for a sub-7,000 sqft lot in Kensington? Good luck with that.. This is the silliest listing in quite some time.”
Well, the home in question — a Michael Thomas-designed mid-century modern house on three levels, [...]
Timely List for New Moon Movie Home
Not bad. Not bad at all. The home of bloodthirsty Edward in the newly released movie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, has just popped up for sale with a $3.3 million asking price.
Designed by noted architect Arthur Erickson it was totally renovated eight years ago and comes with five bedrooms, a great room with soaring [...]
Julius Shulman for those Mad Men moments
We’re suffering serious Mad Men withdrawal in the Home Girl household so we’re heading out to see Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman.
We hear it’s a sumptuously produced documentary about the accomplished Californian architectural photographer who captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, [...]