Frank Gehry's early Sirmai-Peterson house in Thousand Oaks finds a new owner

The Sirmai-Peterson house, an early Frank Gehry design from the mid-1980s created with partner Greg Walsh, is located in Thousand Oaks, a planned community northwest of Los Angeles. The house, hidden on a leafy estate, is a cluster of cubes with a towering lantern, using concrete blocks, stucco, Douglas fir, and galvanised aluminium. It features a pond, waterfall, and landscape of oaks and olives. A guest house by architect Brian Murphy serves as a foil. The house was recently sold to a medical professor and his wife, who lived nearby. The sale was handled by Brian Linder and Rick Grahn of The World of Architecture. The house, along with the Schnabel house, represents the peak of Gehry's early residential work, overshadowed by later masterpieces like the Bilbao Guggenheim and Walt Disney Concert Hall.