When renowned Hollywood actor Gary Cooper built his californian 'dream house' in the early 1950s, an
ultra-modern, angular concoction featuring stone, glass, and steel, movie fans smiled and said they knew why.
Cooper had recently portrayed Howard Roark, the egocentric architect at the center of 'The Fountainhead' a man so passionate about architecture that he made Frank Lloyd Wright look like a hobbyist.
More than 50 years later, the Cooper house still has star power. It's a powerful work by one A. Quincy Jones, one of California's leading modernist architects and known for the thousands of homes he designed for developer Joseph Eichler.
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