Ray kappe

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Los Angeles-based architect Ray Kappe is renowned worldwide for his contributions to the modernist movement. From forming his own practice in 1954 to founding SCI-Arc (the Southern California Institute of Architecture) in 1972, he is still in practice to this day. In 2006, Wallpaper* visited a pair of Kappe builds: one the home and office of Dr Esther Benton, the other the architect’s own Kappe House in Pacific Palisades, a Cultural Heritage Landmark

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Ray Kappe’s house doesn’t look like much from the street. Tucked away in Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica, the house is mostly hidden behind a jungle of trees, bushes, and ground cover all growing wild, probably unchanged from the time when he bought the lot in 1962 for just $17,000, a bargain price because the steep hillside was thought to be impossible to build a house on. Kappe Residence in the Pacific Palisades. On one side of the biggest, most bizarre looking tree, a driveway leads to a…