A historically significant mid-century modern home designed by SCI-Arc founding director Ray Kappe has hit the market in Glendale, California, for an asking price of just under $2.2 million.

The Pasadena Star is reporting the recent listing of Kappe’s Goetschel House, a 1954 commission that was recently restored to reflect its original design by HabHouse owner Andreas E.G. Larsson. Thanks to an archive of Kappe’s drawings and sketches for the home kept at the Getty Research Institute, Larsson hastened a yearlong renovation that added new elements such as a pergola and an outdoor shower to the property, which had been partly demolished. At the end of the restoration, the home had appreciated in value by nearly seven figures over the original sale price of $1.33 million.

The residence was the first designed by Kappe after completing his studies at Berkeley three years before. According to Unique California Property, the home offers insights covering “Kappe's explorations into a vocabulary that would signify his early works.”

“The emphasis is on spatial expansion, focusing inhabitants towards the surrounding nature and distant views,” the listing describes. “Horizontal massings of redwood siding and unpainted masonry block give privacy to a glass-walled pavilion. Natural light spills in from all directions, animating the space and casting slow moving shadows throughout the day.”

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Kappe died in 2019. More of our coverage of his career and design legacy can be found here.