The living room of Wave House, architect Harry Gesner's ode to the ocean.
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A house that juts out over Malibu's coveted beach hit the market for the first time in 36 years.
Rod Stewart bought it in the 1970s and sold it to record executive Mo Ostin in 1987.
The house was designed to look like a set of cresting waves by California architect Harry Gesner.
Before crooner Rod Stewart scooped it up in the 1970s, or record executive Mo Ostin bought it from him in 1987, the so-called Wave House of Malibu was owned by Glenn and Gerry Cooper.
The Coopers were friends with California architect Harry Gesner, and commissioned Gesner to design a house for their family that encapsulated their affinity for the outdoors.
After the group found the site — a hidden cove with good surf up the coast from the famous Malibu Colony neighborhood — Gesner spent two days on a surfboard bobbing out at sea, peering back at the parcel. It was on a 12-foot balsa wood surfboard that the architect first sketched the house with a grease pencil, the lore goes.
By Glenn Cooper's account, Gesner succeeded in his task.
"It was as if we lived within, not apart from the forces of nature, and surged with her changing moods," Cooper told Lisa Germany in "Houses of the Sundown Sea: The Architectural Vision of Harry Gesner."
"Such immediate challenges of nature caused all of us to be always responsive, alive, and aware. Such constant change of the tides reminded us of the fragility of life, of the moods and forces of nature," she said. "And the powers of nature drove us all to go farther, to be better, to meet the challenges of each day with undaunted bravado."
With three rooflines shaped like cresting waves, topped with layered shingles that are evocative of fish scales, the Wave House has become an icon of California midcentury architecture since its completion in 1963.
Architect Harry Gesner designed the Wave House to mesh with the surrounding coastal landscape.The roofline of Wave House.
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Gesner said his first sketches of the property were on a balsa wood surfboard, and they remained true to the finished product.Wave House viewed from the ocean.
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"It was exactly as it is now, in every way, thrusting out into the surf at high tide and nestled back in the sand at low tide," he told Germany.
The roughly 6,200-square-foot house has six bedrooms and eight bathrooms and sits on less than an acre.Wave House from the side.
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But its most notable feature is its roofline, with three oceanfront rooms shaped like cresting waves and large windows overlooking the churning sea.Wave House from the side.
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Those three rooms are ringed by 176 feet of curved deck overlooking the Pacific Ocean.The decks of Wave House curve to match the shape of its peaked roofs.
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In the center of the 56-foot by 44-foot living room is a fireplace flanked by Santa Barbara fieldstone. The original material remains under the stucco that was added on in later years.The fireplace is a focal point of the living area.
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"Often times, you can have too much view and you need a foreground to look around or an inner view to rest your eyes and thoughts on," Gesner said of the fireplace.
Another focal point in the room is its sunken conversation pit, a favorite midcentury design convention.The living room's conversation pit.
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In contrast to the parts of the home that jut towards the sea, there's also a section that settles into the rocky landscape.A bedroom.
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"For me, as a mother, I experienced the inner space as an overreaching large bird with its body and two wings covering and protecting me and my brood, especially significant when the vagaries of tidal forces and storms brought the ocean surging under the deck," Glenn told Germany.
There's some speculation that the Wave House influenced Danish architect Jørn Utzon's design for the Sydney Opera House.The dining area.
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To that, Gensler replied, "I wish people would not insist that something looks like something else, but they do. It's human nature and a bore."
Rock star Rod Stewart purchased the home in the 1970s, and sold it to Mo Ostin who, according to the Wall Street Journal, oversaw Frank Sinatra's Reprise label and signed acts like Jimi Hendrix, Prince, and Madonna.Wave House from above.
In addition to Wave House, Gesner's private residence next door, the Sandcastle, is also on the market.Wave House stands in the center with the Sandcastle to its right.
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