The doors of four superbly decorated La Caňada Flintridge homes will be open to the public on May 2nd as part of the 22nd Annual Spring Home Tour.  This event, which is the primary fundraiser for the La Caňada High School 7/8 PTA, draws crowds each year to view interesting architecture, beautiful décor and shop the boutiques that display merchandise in the Home Tour Market Place.  In addition to the tour, shoppers can enjoy a delicious poolside luncheon provided by The Corner Bakery.

This year, visitors will tour an Asian modern home with panoramic views (photo below), a hexagonal mid-century home designed by Lloyd Wright, an exquisitely restored Spanish Revival house and a stately Plantation style estate with expansive grounds. 



Designed by architect Jack Simison and built by master craftsmen in 1965, the Asian modern home sits on a private knoll in Flintridge with a jaw-dropping 270˚ view from the San Gabriel Mountains to the blue Pacific Ocean.  The post and beam style house is characterized by broad horizontal forms, exposed structural elements, and a free-flowing interior plan with large open rooms.  The gently tapered, soaring temple shaped roof shelters the entire length of the structure and blends into the backdrop of hills and mountains.  Thick walls made of hand selected local Bouquet Canyon stone front the residence and resemble the foundations of ancient Oriental fortresses.  Endless glass walls open this magnificent home to a vista virtually unmatched by any other residence in Southern California. 

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The Gainsburg House is also on tour. Lloyd Wright, son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, designed this home in 1946, a more upscale variation of his father’s Depression era Usonian homes.  Based on a diagonal grid, the home reflects his geometrical investigations of the time.  The rooms flow into one another with different wall colors and fascia acting as sculptural planes.  Instead of right angles, each room is defined by full or partial hexagons which are repeated in the door and window hardware.



Tickets for the Home Tour and the luncheon are available for purchase through Al Brooks Tickets or by calling 818-790-0419. 

Photos graciously provided by Spiderbox