Architecture buffs will likely know the Sheats-Goldstein Residence as John Lautner’s Beverly Hills space-age masterpiece. Others may recognize it as pornographer Jackie Treehorn’s pad in the 1998 Coen Brothers' film, The Big Lebowski. Beginning today, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will consider it an impending part of its collection.
LACMA today announced that the house’s owner, James Goldstein, has promised the estate and its contents—which include tropical gardens, an “entertainment complex,” a tennis court, works by Ed Ruscha and James Turrell, as well as a Rolls Royce—to the art museum, its first gift of architecture.
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