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The six-bedroom home features floor-to-ceiling family room windows and 5,908 square feet of space. A natural stream runs through the nearly half-acre property.

Hillside contemporary in Hollywood Hills West features a loft-like entry overlooking an interior waterfall, a catwalk hallway and a spiral staircase.

The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom house in the Malibu community of MariSol sits on a bluff overlooking a surfing beach.

The four-bedroom, five-bathroom Laguna Beach home features original design details including the owners’ crests and emblems, hand-painted in the early 1940s.

The 1920s seven-bedroom home has such features as inlaid wood floors, courtyard, rotunda entry, stone fireplace and a swimming pool.

The two-bedroom, three-bathroom house, on the market for $2.15 million, was recently stripped to the studs and remodeled.

The house, a blend of Japanese and Midcentury Modern architecture, is ideal for displaying an extensive art collection.

La Piedra is one of 23 estates in Palm Springs’ guard-gated Southridge community.

Designed for entertaining, the Spanish-style estate — with five bedrooms, eight bathrooms and nearly five acres of grounds — takes in coastline and city views.

The two-bedroom, three-bathroom home on the Strand features beach and ocean views, curved walls of glass, a spiral staircase, media room and billiard room.

The Spanish Revival-style home in Redondo Beach sits on a quarter-acre of beachfront with a courtyard, an infinity pool and a waterfall spa.

The one- to four-story Spanish Revival-style courtyard villas in West Hollywood, each with one to three bedrooms, sit on the former site of the family compound of silent film-era director Irvin Willat.

The four-bedroom home sits on 24 acres. Its features include a wine cellar, stables, tennis court, bonsai garden, bridges and 11 waterfalls.

Set on a promontory in Malibu, the home has mountain, ocean and Channel Islands views.

This restored Spanish Revival-style house in Hollywood Hills reflects its 1920s vintage with a Malibu tile fireplace, period lighting and hand-crafted doors.

The Wolff House, designed by John Lautner and recently restored, is built into a hillside above the Sunset Strip in Hollywood Hills West.

The four-bedroom home designed by Greta Magnusson Grossman is on the market for the first time since it was built in the 1950s.

Set along the beach in Malibu Colony, the John Lautner-designed Stevens House draws inspiration for its curved shell from the shape of waves.

A great room topped by a geometric skylight creates a focal point at an Italianate contemporary in Hollywood Hills West.

The five-bedroom home in a gated neighborhood includes four fireplaces, a service entrance, swimming pool and 360-degree views.

The house, in the Little Holmby area of Westwood, boasts original features that include elaborate ironwork, carved and stenciled beams and colorful tile, as well as a hidden Prohibition-era bar.

The 1931 hacienda designed by Wallace Neff sits on a knoll with views of Pasadena, the Rose Bowl and Brookside Golf Course. It includes six bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms.

The Bel-Air home, built in 2003 and listed at $8.2 million, features four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms and a glass-enclosed bridge connecting upper level wings.

This Spanish-style home in Los Feliz underwent a top-to-bottom renovation blending original details and contemporary design.

A 1974 Modernist home by architect Ray Kappe is on the market for $4.25 million.

The home, set on one-and-a-half park-like acres near Pasadena’s Langham Huntington hotel, features a glass-enclosed atrium inside the entrance.

The Lake Arrowhead estate, with unobstructed lake and mountain views, boasts a garage with a vehicle turntable and room for 22 cars.

Wainscoting, crown molding and coffered ceilings give this newly built traditional-style home in Sherman Oaks an East Coast ambience.

Walls of windows and skylights infuse natural light into this contemporary Palos Verdes Peninsula home.

The restored and modernized Tuscan-inspired villa built in 1928 in Pacific Palisades maintains its Old World charm.

The shingle-clad Newport Beach home, infused with nautical character, is one of only two dozen waterfront houses on car-free Bay Island.

The Michael Gantert Residence, one of the last properties designed by Case Study architect Pierre Koenig, takes full advantage of its dramatic viewpoint.

The Newhall Mansion, originally built in the 1890s, burned down three decades ago but was meticulously reconstructed. The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home sits on 10 acres.

The four-bedroom, five-bathroom house built in 1920 for industrialist James Wigmore lists for $2,875,000.

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The sprawling home built for the former owners of Architectural Digest connects the indoors and outdoors through the extensive use of glass walls and doors.

Redone using materials from Paris and the Italian cities of Venice and Florence, this Tuscan-style house behind gates in the Beverly Hills Post Office area is surrounded by 150-year-old orange trees, avocado trees, gardens and outdoor entertaining space.

A Mediterranean Revival estate in Pomona’s Ganesha Hills built in 1930 for Cora Armour, a prominent local resident, retains the trappings of an earlier elegance.

Mature Cypresses line the driveway of a classic Italian villa in a gated community in Long Beach.

Valley View Cottage, built in 1925 for the owner of the Huntington Hotel, is one of 13 houses in the Huntington Circle community adjacent to the Langham Huntington.

A gated Pacific Palisades compound consists of a four-bedroom main house, a two-bedroom guesthouse, a swimming pool and a sports court on a third of an acre.

The Sidney R. Troxell House designed by Modernist architect Richard Neutra is listed at $3.95 million.

The U-shaped concrete, steel and glass structure with 3 bedrooms and 31/2 bathrooms sits on a corner lot in Manhattan Beach’s Hill Section.

The eight-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate includes a French Normandy upper house, an A-frame and a carriage-style guesthouse above a four-car garage.

It includes five bedrooms and seven bathrooms and features wood beams, floors, built-ins and ceilings.

The restored Polin House by architect John Lautner is listed for almost $1.5 million.

The Craftsman-exterior home, with three bedrooms, four bathrooms and contemporary interiors, was designed for its previous owner, actor James Woods.

Rooms that protrude from the main structure seem to float in the air at this three-story house atop the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The redwood-and-glass house with four bedrooms and three bathrooms is an early work of modernist Malibu architect Ed Niles, known for creating homes that connect to the outdoors and maximize the use of natural light.

Accessed by a driveway bridge, this downtown-close contemporary was constructed on a lot previously considered unbuildable because of the steep grade.

This five-structure family compound in the gated Hollister Ranch community encompasses a valley with 100-year-old oaks and spring-fed creeks.

The gated property in Long Beach’s Naples area has a seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom house, a pool, a dock and views of Alamitos Bay.

This massive gated compound was once part of the Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, which produced classified films and still photos of nuclear experiments after World War II.

The multilevel house, an L.A. historic-cultural monument, was built in 1930 by filmmaker Dorothy Arzner.

Address: 2457 Santa Anita Ave., Altadena 91001 Listed for: $750,000 Size: Four bedrooms and three bathrooms in 1,970 square feet Lot size: 0.18 acre Features: The English revival-style house, built in 1928, has hardwood floors and a pool.

The 7-year-old home overlooking Santa Monica Bay has marble mosaic floors, 300-year-old terra-cotta pavers from France, walnut floors and silk-covered walls.

A 3,800-square-foot, two-story 1982 structure designed by Norm Applebaum blends different woods and walls of glass to take advantage of the views of the lush greenery and rocky hillsides.

The longtime owner has preserved the floor plan and vibrant details that give character to the 1920s-era house; this is no creaky holdover or retro makeover.

This Spanish Colonial Revival in La Cañada Flintridge was the summer home of an early J.C. Penney executive. The current, longtime owners raised their children and have held at least seven weddings here.

Octavius Weller Morgan’s touches adorn the El Capitan, Mayan and Wiltern theaters. The 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival house he built in Beverly Grove is a perfect example of Southern California style.

A newly built Tuscan-villa-style house in Manhattan Beach offers plenty of luxuries at just under $6 million.

Despite extensive remodeling -- overseen in large part by famed modernist Whitney Smith -- the South Arroyo home remains faithful to its architects’ experimental vision.

At first glance, the tall, steeply pitched roof gives the illusion that the house is a charming cottage -- but once inside, the grandeur of another age reveals itself.

In La Jolla’s Barber Tract, the Old World look of this 20-year-old house stands out.

Its corrugated shell glows at night; in the day, glass walls let in the sunlight

This 1983 Buff and Hensman contemporary on the west end of Malibu was a beachfront hangout for the jazz legend.

John Lautner’s penchant for mid-century progressive engineering with a Space Age flair is evident in this 1958 residence, which has since been renovated. It’s priced at $1,595,000.

The 1941 house was designed by Rudolph M. Schindler for writer-composer Jose Rodriguez.

Two-level residences with floor-to-ceiling windows, open spaces and contemporary lines make up 10 Palms, a nine-unit Hollywood condominium where walkways give each unit a sense of privacy and access to the outdoors.

A 1950 Caspar Ehmcke design has the indoor-outdoor feel and natural materials that are typical of the style. Its perch offers views of the mountains and of downtown Pasadena.

The period ambience of the original 1,018-square-foot-home built by Virgil Westbrook, who was brought in by city founder Ole Hanson, hasn’t been diminished by a 1,141-square-foot-addition in 2003.

Villa Allegra in the Hollywood Hills is ready for entertaining

A newly built house in Hermosa captures the essence of living near the ocean.

It’s not the Playboy mansion, but it is the playboy’s mansion.

The ocean-view abode retains its high-tech feel after a remodel.

Ever since this Queen Anne was relocated in two pieces from 4th Street and Grand Avenue in 1928 to a spot off Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach, it’s been the talk of the neighborhood.

Ready for family, and friends, in Pasadena’s Prospect Historic District

An upscale condo project near a famed intersection caters to the young and hip

A four-level house has coast vistas from Santa Monica Bay to Point Dume.

In its loggias, arches and pools, Irvine’s Castillo del Cañón took its inspiration from Spain’s Alhambra.

Surprisingly fanciful touches distinguish a rock-solid 1920s canyon-side home in Altadena.

THE Los Feliz hills may be known for Spanish- and Mediterranean-style architecture, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for something a bit more exotic.

At 17,000 square feet, fairy-tale estate is where the Old World meets alpine waters.

Owners of Mrs. Cubbison’s onetime abode in Mt. Washington have restored some features and added their own.

Converted 1930 warehouse is configured with three bedrooms, 13/4 baths in 7,000 square feet.

A sprawling home on 4.5 acres in gated Country Club Estates has a wealth of features.

A 4-year-old oceanfront estate in Santa Barbara channels an old-world era.

Walls of glass reveal broad views at this camera-ready Malibu home.

A Georgian-style mansion replaces a Holmby Hills estate once owned by Irene Dunne.

IS “20th century industrial chic” an actual design style? No matter.