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Filaree Heights, Malibu: the house lit from within at dusk, across its lawn.

5901 Filaree Heights · Malibu · Completed

Filaree Heights

Warm Modernism / indoor-outdoor / material restraint

An Edward Fickett house

A warm reworking of a Modernist house where structure, wood and landscape become one composition.

The house

Address
5901 Filaree Heights, Malibu
Original architect
Edward Fickett
Grounds
Lawn, pond, fire pit, tennis and paddle courts
Status
Completed
Press
Forbes Global Properties, 2021

Case study

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    The idea

    An Edward Fickett house: a long, low pavilion under exposed black beams, glass on every garden side, the structure doing the talking.

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    Material and detail

    White walls and dark beams inside, slatted wood in the hall and the bedrooms, a stone fireplace sunk into the living room, ipe decks running out to the lawn.

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    The result

    The house opens onto its grounds at every turn: a pond along the terrace, a fire pit in the lawn, a paddle court and a tennis court beyond, and the ocean on the horizon. Forbes profiled the work in 2021.

The full case study for this house is in preparation.