![]() Women wore sweaters decorated with cartoon characters-Bart Simpson, Shrek-and dresses that doubled as street signs: the bust of a stop-sign-like dress commanded “ SHOP.” People carried their iPhones in cases that appeared to be Windex bottles or cartons of McDonald’s French fries. So a Lautner aficionado arriving one recent evening might have been surprised to see men wearing Looney Tunes jerseys and track suits covered in trompe-l’oeil gold plaques. The house’s owner, the real-estate mogul James Goldstein, recently announced plans to donate it to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, whose curators appreciate its austere beauty. The house’s modern interior seems to be carved into the side of a canyon, and the built-in concrete furnishings suggest that both the Flintstones and the Jetsons would be at home there. Fans of the mid-century architect John Lautner have a special affection for the Sheats-Goldstein Residence, a glass-and-concrete marvel near Beverly Hills, from 1963.
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