Inside the ‘Big Lebowski’ house being donated to LACMA
Jackie Treehorn’s pad is becoming part of an art museum? “Far out,” we hear The Dude gasping. The living room that the film “The Big Lebowski” set in Malibu is, in real life, in the hills, not by the beach. Now, the convention- and gravity-defying home its part of, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright disciple John Lautner, is being donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which plans to use it for fundraisers, exhibitions, conferences, and collaborations with other museums, the L.A. Times reports. In a Times column, the museum’s director called it “one of the most important houses in all of L.A.” and “one of the most L.A. houses.”
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- A visitor passes guest bedrooms with glass-walled views. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Hillside tropical foliage surrounds the John Lautner-designed home being donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Tropical foliage surrounds the master bedroom of the John Lautner-designed home. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Fashion and basketball aficionado James Goldstein is seen during a tour of the John Lautner-designed home he’s donating to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- The office is seen during a tour of the John Lautner-designed home being donated to LACMA. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Visitors pass a coy pond. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- People walking through the office are seen from a bathroom during a tour of the John Lautner-designed home being donated to LACMA. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A couch faces the view from the master bedroom during the John Lautner-designed home, being donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by fashion and basketball aficionado James Goldstein. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A giant television monitor makes up a wall of an entertainment room dubbed James Club (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A guest bedroom sink with tropical foliage and a skylight is seen during the John Lautner-designed home. Lautner, behind many similarly unconventional homes, was a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A washbasin that drains to recycled use is seen in the master bedroom. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
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