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Both “Emily in Paris” star Lily Collins and “Saturday Night Live” alum Kristen Wiig have good taste—in real estate. The two stars are enamored with midcentury architecture.
Collins reportedly purchased a prime example of one from Wiig for $3.9 million, according to Architectural Digest.
An off-market transaction was made last year for Pasadena’s only Case Study House, #10, built in 1947 by the father-son architecture team of Kemper Nomland Sr. and Kemper Nomland Jr.
The property was renovated before Wiig picked it up for $2,960,000 in 2017, so she fared well on the Collins transaction, making almost $1 million.
Case Study House #10
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Midcentury marvel
Case Study Houses were experiments in residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine. As such, they are prized by midcentury modern enthusiasts far and wide.
The place measures 3,425 square feet and has four bedrooms and four baths. A guesthouse was added to the .37-acre lot over the years.
Aerial view
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It bears the typical features of a midcentury modern home: open floor plan, single story, floor-to-ceiling glass walls, and glass doors.
Floor-to-ceiling walls of glass
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The original wood-paneled walls were replaced with white ones. But the original pale brick fireplace and many of the clerestory windows remain.
Living room
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Original fireplace
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The kitchen and baths have modern features that were designed to fit with the original minimalist design.
Kitchen
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Primary bath
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Primary bedroom
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The home was glammed up with a pool, spa, and terraces with planters in 2014.
Terraced backyard with a pool and spa
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And just in case buyers are dubious about the home’s provenance, a plaque out front proclaims that it has a place on the National Registry of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
National registry
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Kristen Wiig’s affinity for architecture
Wiig has an affinity for midcentury modern architecture. In 2013 she picked up a 2,719-square-foot home in Los Feliz, built in 1949, for $1,764,000. She flipped it in 2017 for $2 million.
Wiig, who also starred in such hits as “Bridesmaids” and “Wonder Woman 1984,” also purchased a renovated midcentury modern in Silver Lake for $1.7 million in 2014. That one she made a screaming deal on, selling it for $5,225,000, which was $100,000 over her asking price. At the time, it was one of the highest sale prices in the area.
Kristen Wiig’s former midcentury modern home in Silver Lake
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Lily Collins in Beverly Hills
Collins, daughter of musician Phil Collins, also owned another midcentury modern classic: an upscale Beverly Hills estate that she picked up in 2016 for $12.5 million.
Designed in 1954 by John Elgin Woolf, who’s known as the “father of Hollywood Regency,” the sprawling, one‐story residence with a distinctive green copper roof, pool, spa, and tennis court, was once featured in Town and Country magazine.
Collins sold the property just last year for $13.5 million.
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