A significant Ray Kappe design, the 1984 Borghei-Cookston Residence in Rustic Canyon, is available for purchase after listing for $4.99 million recently in Santa Monica, California. The 3-bed, 4-bath home is 3,574 square feet and offers a dramatic vaulted glass half-domed facade with concrete masonry massing and steel featuring prominently throughout an atypical (for Kappe’s palette) and vertically-oriented design beset by several outdoor balconies.
Its listing follows that of the SCI-Arc cofounder's 1991 Keeler House in nearby Pacific Palisades for $12 million. Another late Kappe, his final residential design in Los Angeles, went on the market last November for $4.2 million. Kappe died in 2019 with a portfolio of around 100 private home designs. Our 2016 Archinect One-to-One interview with the late architect is available here.
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In this project, Ray Kappe gives CMU back its 'unit' properties towards form instead of using it, like in most cases, as a retaining wall when you will never see the other side of the wall. Regarding their size and geometry he challenges the openings in a masonry construction. It is really beautiful up close.
Best to trim all foliage back 50 feet from house or this baby's gonna burn down
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