Photo by Laure Joliet

As we gear up for our third annual Dwell Open House tours, we’re excited to reveal the second home on the itinerary: the Wilkinson House. Its namesake comes from architect—and homeowner—Clive Wilkinson, who designed this hillside retreat for himself and his family.  

The home is the second of three architecturally amazing private residences—normally closed to the public—that you can experience during Dwell Open House on Saturday, October 17.

Read on to learn more about the Wilkinson Residence, and sign up for Dwell Open House: Los Angeles today. 

Space is necessarily limited.

Photo by Laure Joliet

In the conventional reading of the Los Angeles landscape, there’s the beach, the hills, and the flatlands: three of the city’s four “ecologies,” as the critic Reyner Banham famously called them—each with its own brand of domestic architecture. So what happens when these ecologies meet?

Architect Clive Wilkinson got to find out when it came time to choose a site for his own family’s home. “It’s a complete anomaly—perched on a hill about eighty feet up, absolutely flat below,” he says. 

Encompassing 3,700 square feet and spilling partway down the slope, the plan is organized around a staircase accessed directly from the entry. As soon as you swing the door open, the commanding site is evident. Impressive as the views are, the house also has all the simplicity and domesticity of flatland residences—the cozy bungalows and Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival homes that are standard fare for the region’s broad valleys and coastal plains. 

Deep in the heart of L.A., it’s a house with something for everyone, just like the city itself.

We can’t wait to see you there.

Each ticket includes:

360 Park Avenue South, Floor 17, New York, NY 10010
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