The Goldstein House
(Photo by Alan Weintraub)

 

 jim@jamesfgoldstein.com
 

SPACE

Modernized Marvel
(November 2007)

This hidden gem of a house mysteriously clings to a cliff 400 feet up in the infamous Hollywood Hills, magically protruding out from a luxurious jungle of tropical plants and imported palm trees precipitously hanging from the hillside...continue


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Indoor Green Style (Japan)

Living on a Terrace in L.A.
(Spring & Summer 2006)


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Architectural Digest - Russian
(September 2005)

photography by Alan Weintraub

The owner of this eccentric corner bedroom is L.A. playboy
James Goldstein. In 1972, he bought the house, which was built in 1963 by the great John Lautner. It's difficult to say how good he sleeps in this bedroom, but making the movies "The Big Lebowski" and "Charlie's Angels" had been of big success.


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Attention, maison culte
Attention, house of culture
(June 2005)

photography by Kenneth Johansson

Two cops arrive where the crime took place. Pieces of glass from broken champagne glasses are scattered on the floor.
A thick yellow ribbon that says: "caution" is wrapped around an unmade bed. You may think you're in a Hollywood
studio, but actually you're at James Goldstein's house, this amazing modern palace...continue


THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

On the Path to Illumination
(December 2004)

photography by Kenneth Johansson

If ever a man's home was his castle, here it is: a curiously monastic, modernist citadel magically suspended atop Benedict Canyon. Blowing down from the desert, the winds notorious in local lore as the Santa Anas have swept the chronic Los Angeles smog beyond the horizon...continue



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Telegraph magazine
(London)

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
(August 2004)


Four hundred feet up in the Hollywood Hills, Jim Goldstein has spent 25 years and countless millions on a high-tech
lair fit for a Bond villian -- with the world's coolest garden folly...continue


AZURE

JAMES TURRELL`S L.A. LIGHT SHOW
(May / June 2004)

photography by Kenneth Johansson

OUT OF THE BLUE An observatory for enhanced viewing of the atmospheric sky over the Los Angeles basin connects the work of light artist James Turrell and legendary architect John Lautner...continue


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DER HIMMEL, SO NAH
(June 2004)


Robb Report

The Light House
(May 2004)

James Goldstein is a lover of light. Sunrise and sunset flood through the wall-size windows of his landmark home on a promontory above Beverly Hills. The house, designed by John Lautner...continue


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The New York Times Magazine

The Sky Box
(March 2004)

James Turrell is known for making art out of light and thin air, challenging our notion of how we see. The artist says...continue


CASE DA ABITARE

Making Hollywood
(October 2003)

Spazi fluidi, superfici vetrate, forme scultoree.


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GARDEN DESIGN

King of His Jungle
(Nov-Dec 2003)

If James Goldstein could live wherever he pleased, he might choose Bali, Tahiti, or another favorite getaway, the Seychelles -- anyplace where sun-kissed beaches recede into cool, green jungle. But since he lives in a modernist gem of a house...continue


Moderism Reborn

mid-century american houses
(2004)

No second act in recent memory is as astonishing as this: a dramatically sited 4,100-square-foot house of great power and originality that Lautner designed...continue

 

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Robb Report

The Ultimate Home Is the Sum of Many Parts
(April 2002)

photography by Kenneth Johansson

A John Lautner house is unforgettable, and the master bedroom of the Sheats/Goldstein hose is no exception. All of Lautner's signature elements...continue


Town & County

James Goldstein and his John Lautner house in Beverly Hills
(October 2001)

photography by Kenneth Johansson

Some might be taken aback by the boldness of the work by John Lautner, the architectural "bad boy" who worked in ...continue



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ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST

A MASTERFUL COMPOSITION OF
FORMS ABOVE LOS ANGELES
(October 1995)

"Sensitively conceived and executed, a finely designed and crafted space can be magical,"observed the late architect John Lautner.


Worth

Copper and Slate
(July 2004)

photography by Kenneth Johansson

When ARCHITECTURE enthusiast Jim Goldstein finally had the satisfaction of seeing his Beverly Hills home redone by renowned architect John Lautner, he so enjoyed living in the space that he asked Lautner to work the same minimalist magic in his nearby Century City office...continu


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Los Angeles Times

High Drama in a Small Office Space
(November 17,1998)

Century City businessman James F. Goldstein decided some years ago that he disliked making the transition from his dramatic house in Benedict Canyon to a conventional, boxy office...continue


ARCHITECTURAL
RECORD

Playing the angles
(September 1989)


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