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Ray Kappe's Modernist masterpiece asks $11.5 million in Pacific Palisades
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The floor plan features five bedrooms and five bathrooms across seven split levels.
An iconic property that has been described as possibly “the greatest house in Southern California” just hit the market for the first time ever in Pacific Palisades.
A Midcentury masterpiece, the home served as the primary residence of Ray Kappe, the late architect who co-founded the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).
The home’s skylights, clerestories and towering windows that take in the wooded scene surrounding it make up roughly 50% of the floor plan — much higher than modern limits allow.
(Cameron Carothers)The end result is a striking space that feels entirely unique, even in a region as architecturally eclectic as Southern California.