#mid-century-architecture

#mid-century-architecture

The Marilyn Monroe Doll House in Palm Springs is on the market for $3.3 million, blending architectural pedigree with famous Hollywood lore. Marked by a pink mailbox on an elevated third-acre Vista Las Palmas lot, the 1961 residence allegedly tied to the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes star is a classic Charles Du Bois design built by the Alexander Construction Co.

Casa Vernate, a renovated home by Enrico Sassi Architetto, sits on a wooded slope above the Agno-Porto Ceresio branch of Lake Lugano in Vernate, Switzerland. Designed in 1972 by Unterlöhner + Waibel of Ulm, the single-family house occupies a narrow terrace with long views toward the water and surrounding hills. The original structure combines exposed brick walls with a load-bearing timber system insulated and clad in wood. An asymmetrical gable roof shapes the interior of the sleeping wing, where sloped ceilings follow the roofline.

The home was built in 1963, adopting a midcentury style that swept the Hollywood Hills after World War II.