Photos: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Derby House’ in California seeks $3.3 million

  • Lloyd Wright’s Mayan-inspired Derby Home in Glendale is up for grabs at below $3.3 million. (Picture by Nike Frandjian Open Home Foto)

  • The lounge. (Picture by Nike Frandjian Open Home Foto)

  • The eating room. (Picture by Nike Frandjian Open Home Foto)

  • The first bed room. (Picture by Nike Frandjian Open Home Foto)

  • A view of the rooftop backyard deck and courtyard, under. (Picture by Nike Frandjian Open Home Foto)

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A Mayan-inspired residence described within the itemizing as one among structure scion Lloyd Wright’s “strongest achievements” is on the market in Glendale for $3.295 million.

Dubbed the Derby Home, the three,281-square-foot home inbuilt 1926 is on the Glendale Register of Historic Locations and Nationwide Register of Historic Locations. It has 5 bedrooms, three bogs and a two-story front room with a fire that boasts 8-foot-tall wrought iron gates.

A balcony runs diagonally throughout that light-filled room and hyperlinks to a rooftop backyard deck.

The home, designed to accommodate indoor-outdoor dwelling, sits on 1.5 acres surrounded by towering California dwell oak and eucalyptus bushes.

Nature additionally finds its method into the general design. Summary renderings of yuccas adorn the storage gates, fire grates, French door grills and closets.

The outside’s pre-cast concrete blocks are impressed by Mayan ornamentation and knitted collectively by metal rods.

Inside, the two-story main bed room has an ensuite lavatory and a floating loft. Three window panels, separated by the unique block designed by Wright, result in the backyard deck.

Within the ensuite lavatory, the hand pigmented tile, tub and sink are unique to the home.

The six-sided eating room has a fire with an ornamental block hood.

Aaron Leider, Elham Shaoulian, Drew Carlson, and Brandon Soufer of The Company maintain the itemizing.

Property information present that the home final bought in April 2016 for $2.335 million.

In response to the Nationwide Register, the historic residence was constructed for the household of James Daniel Derby and is one among six knit-block designs by Wright.

Like his well-known father, Wright made his mark in structure — though primarily in Southern California, the place he additionally practiced panorama structure. His creations have a tendency towards the dramatic and embrace the Hollywood Bowl’s first two bandshells, the Mayan temple-inspired John Snowden Home in Los Feliz, and the Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes within the late.

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