Lot #90LLOYD WRIGHT, ARCHITECT: 1961 plans, specifications, working drawings, proposals and bid documents for the construction of a Malibu Beach House for Mr & Mrs Jascha Heifetz at 23850 Malibu Road, Malibu Beach. Unfortunately, the project did not go ahead but this is a remarkably detailed archive. Frank Lloyd T. Wright, Jr. (1890-1978), commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American landscape architect and architect, active primarily in Los Angeles and Southern California.

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LLOYD WRIGHT, ARCHITECT: 1961 plans, specifications, working drawings, proposals and bid documents for the construction of a Malibu Beach House for Mr & Mrs Jascha Heifetz at 23850 Malibu Road, Malibu Beach. Unfortunately, the project did not go ahead but this is a remarkably detailed archive which includes Site Plan, Foundation Plan, Exterior and Interior Elevations, Sections & Details, and Study Drawings; 3 sets of detailed specifications and Agreements, construction cost estimates with transmittal letter signed by Wright and more; all dated from 1960 and 1961.

Frank Lloyd T. Wright, Jr. (1890-1978), commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American landscape architect and architect, active primarily in Los Angeles and Southern California. His name is frequently confused with that of his more famous father, Frank Lloyd J. Wright, Sr.

Wright had previously designed an hexagonal redwood studio for Heifetz that was built at his Beverly Hills hilltop home in 1947. The studio served as a home office, practise venue, an archive for Heifetz' collections of music, recordings, coins and instruments, and housed two grand pianos and recording equipment as well as a small kitchen, a secretary's office and a bathroom. When the home was sold after Heifetz' death, the studio was dismantled and placed into storage. Several years later it was acquired by the Colburn School in Los Angeles who funded its' reconstruction across the street from Disney Hall where today it serves as a teaching venue for the school's string instrument students.

Heifetz loved the beach and being close to the water, and he had always enjoyed having a "country" house where he could be more casual. During the years of his second marriage and living in Los Angeles, Malibu Beach was his preferred destination and he turned to Lloyd Wright, the designer of the Studio, to design and create his beach getaway. The design evolved over about a year but was put on hold because of new zoning restrictions on new construction, and the project was finally shelved as the marriage between Frances and Jascha dissolved.