We also looked at a stunning Schindler property that was a bit too rickety.”Įventually, the pair visited an overlooked Neutra masterpiece-hidden in plain sight-on a major thoroughfare in L.A.’s Holmby Hills neighborhood.
“We toured several places-there was a tiny, hillside Wright house over in Silverlake that I considered, but it had tiny rooms and a few significant cracks. “I was thinking about Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, and Neutra, hoping to find a house designed by one of them,” says Edlund, who enlisted the help of Crosby Doe, Southern California’s “über-agent” for architectural homes. He knew, right from the get-go, that he wanted to find an architecturally significant home. When Academy Award–winning special effects innovator Richard Edlund bought his Richard Neutra–designed home in the fall of 1983, he knew it would take more than modeling clay and computer-generated imagery to bring the historic modernist property back to life.Īfter completing work on Return of the Jedi, Edlund decided to move back to Los Angeles from Marin County, where Industrial Light & Magic set up shop a few years earlier.
