Silvertop Reiner House by John Lautner. Complete overview and walkthrough.

[@affectcommunity5395]

As an architect, I love John Lautner's work, these videos are excellent, it is such a shame he is not celebrated more. An amazing architect. Thanks for creating these detailed videos

[@SuperJobbel]

Thank you that you find my videos excellent. I started this channel becuae I believed Lautner deserved more attention and by making the videos as detailed as possible, I could give him the right recognition. I'm busy with makingmroe videos.

[@yotube1ful]

Wow for some reason I get a sense of longing to experience life in such a place. Not in avarice or malicious envy but in an appreciation of such a grand vision of creature comforts and form. It possesses a timelessness. It evoques peace and contentment in me. Bravo maestro Lautner! Well done.

[@SuperJobbel]

Ys it's timeless peacefull architecture. To more you look at Lautner, the more you love his designs.

[@LarryCarroll3]

I LOVE Silvertop and John Lautner. As a television news reporter, I got to interview John Lautner for a 5-minute segment of a series I did on architecture in Los Angeles in the mid 70s at the beginning of my career. What a decent, brilliant man and so far ahead of his time! I learned much more about Silvertop from your presentation than I did during the short time I got to visit the house. Thank you!

[@SuperJobbel]

Thank you for your appreciation and i'm honored that you say that my tour provide more information than visits in reality. How great that met John Lautner! i never met him. I must have been a wonderfull meeting with a wonderfull person.

[@danielbecker9836]

100% pure magic! John L outdid himself on this one. You don't just live here,, you feel it. Nothing even comes close this one of kind home in the Silverlake area. Its very $$$ to upkeep all the moving walls and skylights but so worth it. Silvertop is truly a masterpiece as it embraces the spirit of modern architecture at its very best. Living here must be like heaven on earth. Lautner was a God.

[@SuperJobbel]

100% agree with you! very good description.

[@majorneptunejr]

I first saw this video months ago and was amazed. I have just watched it again and I'm even more amazed. This is such and engineering marvel with so many imaginative innovations. I can see why this house was so costly, there were no compromises and it shows at every turn. As a result this is one beautiful house. As always a great presentation , thanks.

[@SuperJobbel]

Thank you that you like my videos so much. It's my aim to make the overviews as complete as possible. Especially this house needs a very long video to show all the details. Ufortunately at the moment i'm very busy with job obligations and my private life (a new child is born) so I have limited time to work on the videos (each video is a lot of work) So i haven't uploaded a video for two months. Hopefully a new video will be come in a few weeks.

[@fragout9575]

John Lautner is one of my favorite modern architects!! I never knew of all the advanced details in THIS home. Every bit of this video awestruck me beyond my own knowledge of his other works. Thank you for all your work in bringing his work beyond just published books and pictures!!

[@SuperJobbel]

Your welcome, your positive comment stimulates me to make more content! I like making these videos: showing all the interesting details of the house. Indeed a video gives a more complete overview of a house than a book. The next video will be about the Turner House in Aspen Colorado, also by Lautner. See you then.

[@MarioRossi-dc3nh]

Wonderful John Lautner, I love him! ❤️ A gene, my kind of gene! He realized my dream homes.

[@RFToob]

I had no idea he invented the infinity pool edge! Great vids thank you.

[@BoomerBlogging]

This is an absolutely ingenious floorplan that easily rivals even FLW's best creations! Thanks for posting this - a real gem to architectural enthusiasts like myself!

[@susanharris5926]

Au contraire! FLW would never have put a house on top of hill like this one. It nowhere rivals FLW's work and his genius for making a house look as if it should be where it is. This is a concrete monstrosity in comparison.

[@BoomerBlogging]

@@susanharris5926 - I have visited Taliesen West in AZ and it is built into a hill. And Falling Water in PA is on a severe downslope into a creek. IMHO FLW tried to build into the landscape and not because of it. Both of these structures may well be considered "monstrosities" compared to the average sizes of today. I am pretty sure that the man that mastered "cantilevers" in home design would have admired Lautner's creative expression as well?

[@susanharris5926]

@@BoomerBlogging Not sure FLW admired anyone's creative expression other than his own. I mean, he did think he was the greatest architect in the world, not just the US.

[@BoomerBlogging]

@@susanharris5926 - Good point - he did have an extensive ego.

[@greggreg2263]

So well thought out it’s perfect from every angle inside and out✅🥳⚡️🙌🇺🇸

[@georgespalding7640]

This house is gorgeous and blends in so well with the hillside.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes it's a masterpiece in every way.

[@pvariados]

Thanks for taking the time to make these videos - I love them!

[@SuperJobbel]

You're welcome. I love to make them, a video about F.L Wright's Fallingwae House will be uploaded in a week.

[@paulnaylor5387]

What an absolutely amazing house!!!

[@Inverse_Sense]

This house is absolutely amazing! Great video, thank you.

[@TheAnimeist]

Your walk through videos should be the standard for all to follow. I continually know the location of where you are narrating from. Great job, and thanks for sharing!

[@SuperJobbel]

Great to read that you like the video so much. It makes me happy that everyone enjoys these videos. it stimulates me to make more content. I like to make the videos as complete as possible. This week I will upload a new video about Case Study House 22.

[@kimballbenson8116]

I think one of the things about Mr Lautner's designs that a person feels is that nothing in his designs is superfluous. In other words, nothing was ever done just for "design's sake" and therefore his incredible, dynamic spaces are authentic even though they are different and creative. This is Design that ages well and is not predicated on "style". When studying Silvertop, one can see the curvature of the walls and ceiling in the living room are done because it IS a hilltop and has views both east and west and the curvature expands both the space and the views; simple, elegant and beautiful and timeless. He was truly gifted.

[@SuperJobbel]

The ''organic architecture'' by John Lautner is based on the surrounding nature. So the landscape dictates the shape of the house, because each landscape is different each house is also different. This is similar with F.L Wright but different from other architects like Le Corbusier, Neutra, Case Study Houses and Mies van der Rohe. They believed in ''style'' and worked with certain rules. Designing their house from a formulaic approach and don't looking at the landscape. Although very beautifull, most of their houses look the same. Lautner is constantly different. This makes his designs timeless and very original: each design constantly surprises. Although I love the other architects I love Lautner the most.

[@TXMEDRGR]

Wow, what a house, beautiful.

[@neilnriley]

You can see this house in the great 80's Brat Pack Movie, Less Than Zero. Always one of my favourites! Any plans to do the Levy House? It to me, is the most mysterious of all of John's designs, i've seen very few pictures. Great video!

[@SuperJobbel]

Okay great! I never saw the movie ''Less than Zero'' otherwise I would mentioned it in the video. But I will check it out! And yes: I will definitely do a video about the Levy House, but that will take some time because I want t ocreate overview that are as complete as possible, and with the Levy House it is very difficult to find oictures and information. So stay tuned, somewhere around march 2022 the video will be ready.

[@stanleymasterson1135]

A lot of people don't know that Lautner would not design houses for colored people. He was a great man

[@chairlesnicol672]

@@SuperJobbel Was this in Los Angeles?

[@SuperJobbel]

@@chairlesnicol672 Yes the house is located in LA , the movie also takes place in LA.

[@mikehenson819]

Lautner proved to be the Architect to the multi millionaires of LA. It's amazing to see what one can do when money isn't the object. Bankrupt is one of those things. Just glad the house was completed.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes Lautner had designed some extraordinary expensive houses, still he also designed many low budget homes. Check my videos about the Deutsch house, the Bergren, Foster and Salkin house. That were very cheap designs. Little people know these modest designs.

[@greatlakesgirl7601]

Simply stunning! Thank you for such an informative video, very well done.

[@StrangeHistoryX]

Wow!!! Fantastic video. Thank you so much for taking the time to produce that. So wonderful!

[@SuperJobbel]

Good to hear, that you like my videos so much. A complete walkthrough of FL Wright's Fallingwater will uploaded i a few weeks. :)

[@SuperJobbel]

the channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHTNcoF5oM2Zfqs Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in a few months .

[@vickiadams186]

What a genius John Lautner was. Incredible home.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes, he was absolutely a genius, all his houses are incredible. With this channel I want to make overview of every house by Lautner.

[@harrisonamobi484]

Amazing house of art.

[@JL-lg8tk]

John Lautner was an amazingly talented architect.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes I was, his work keeps surprising. Each design is brilliant in its own right.

[@mlbreel]

Thank you for making these tours.

[@MikeUIibarri]

I am a kid for this. So cool.

[@ziraprod6090]

"Dis was your tour guidance" - I Love It!!!

[@SuperJobbel]

''Dank You!'' :)

[@flappospammo]

Love these outrageous designs

[@christineumanzio1170]

Many windows to wash, amazing house!!

[@nondescript2892]

If you can buy a house like this you don't wash your own windows😆

[@johnoden2857]

I love how Lautner is inspired by the physical constraints of the site, so much so that the house seems to be an interior representation of all the forms around it. How great to have a client like Mr. Wolff, who sadly never lived in the 'Wolff House.'

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes John Lautner was a genius.

[@chairlesnicol672]

@@SuperJobbel Where did they get that announcer to narrate ? He sounds like a foreigner with a very European accent! He's "udderly" terrible! Lol On a scale of 1 - 10 I have to give him a " tree" ! Lol

[@SuperJobbel]

@@chairlesnicol672 I am the narrator haha. I'm from the Netherlands so Dutch is my first language, therefore my accent. I'm trying to improve my narration skills and pronounciation, so all criticism is welcome. Check out my later videos to hear my improvement. :) I wanna hear you narrate text in Dutch someday LOL.

[@LVQ-so5th]

@@SuperJobbel Your accent is great. Don't listen to the critics.

[@natalies1306]

I’m going to see this home in April!!! Great job, btw, I found Lautner through your videos.

[@SuperJobbel]

Wonderfull to hear that you discovered Lautner through my videos :) That stimulates me to make more videos about Lautner. Great that you gonna visit the house, no video can ever capture the feeling that you have when you be in a Lautner house for real.

[@pymb71]

Thank you so much for your fascinating videos. I have become an aficionado of inspiring architecture, thanks to you.

[@SuperJobbel]

You're welcome! i feel honored that i made you an architecture aficionado with my videos. This stimulates to go on. Thank you!

[@SuperJobbel]

the channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHTNcoF5oM2Zfqs Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in a few months .

[@johnreynolds5407]

Stunning.

[@JeanPierreVanderWeerd]

Great tour as always. Thank you.

[@warpnin3]

what a house!

[@RobertTempler]

Great videos. Really well done.

[@SuperJobbel]

Thank You!

[@kimballbenson8116]

Mrs. Burchell told me when the '94 earthquake hit the roof raised up and down about 2-3 inches and shattered all the glass on the east side of the living room. Scared her dogs like crazy, she said. Had to replace it all costing thousands.

[@kimballbenson8116]

Loved this place but for me the two story neighbor house next door to the southwest is way too close for comfort, especially with all that glass

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes, I heard this story: the house was badly damaged in the '94 earthquake but it was restored very well.

[@SuperJobbel]

Well..difficult to tell if the neighbouring house is really that close as it appears on some pictures. For that you need to actaully visit the house and check the dimensions.

[@antoniahamilton3201]

This is so well done!

[@SuperJobbel]

Thank you! :)

[@Brian-os9qj]

Fantastic house in every way. Background music leads me to think a Quentin Tarantino movie could be filmed here, SOME DAY!? Nice coverage

[@SuperJobbel]

Thank you for your appriciation. Yes I choose for the surf music because it adds som Californian touch to the house. I think the house is indeed very suitable for a Quentin Tarantino movie, do you have his phone number? Than we can call him..... :)

[@SuperJobbel]

the channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHTNcoF5oM2Zfqs Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in a few months .

[@DmitrySevereign]

The best! Это ещё одно из чудес света❗💖😍

[@projectfabulosity1110]

Great videos! This house is amazing!! Thank you for your posts!

[@SuperJobbel]

Thank You! I love to make these films so more videos coming up!

[@SuperJobbel]

the channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHTNcoF5oM2Zfqs Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in a few months .

[@NJ-Cathie]

Stunning!

[@kevinbwillson4161]

Beautiful

[@hamadqatar5838]

Really nice I like it

[@rossrreyes]

I pass by this Lautner house, Neutra’s house and a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright houses almost daily here in my Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles

[@SuperJobbel]

You're lucky that you live in such a great neighbourhood!Seeing those beautifull homes every day.

[@spbuk2359]

I think this the discription of this home is important for the unfortunately broken pattents industry. It's a coincidence I just stumbled on this video about this house.

[@originaluddite]

With a driveway like that, Matchbox or Hot Wheels should make a playset inspired by this house.

[@SuperJobbel]

Hahaha....very good idea, I had such a playset when I was a kid, still the idea didn't come up im my mind, but now you say it: I see the connection between the house and the playset immediately. :)

[@MartyInLa]

One of the few architects not totally outclassed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes John Lautner. took the style of Frank Lloyd Wright and went into his own direction with it. He experimented with new techniques that weren't available when F.LWright was alive, taking organic architecture into the space age.

[@missingremote4388]

I left California when I was 4 in 1972. These past 50 yrs i Wish we could of stayed at silver top/lake

[@manuelapopa1144]

Perfect!

[@GGLD888]

Great vid

[@SuperJobbel]

Thanks!

[@fritz4345]

Nice little pad.

[@robertwalker2052]

There is a Lautner house in Aspen, Colorado, I am interested in. It is almost completely undergound. It is located behind the Prince of Peace Chapel on the road to the Maroon Bells mountain. I think this would make an interesting episode.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes! I'm already busy with making a video about that house! It will be just a matter of time before a video will be uploaded about it, but it's a lot of work. So it will take some 2 or 3 months before you can see the video about the house. Stay tuned! :)

[@robertwalker2052]

@@SuperJobbel Thank you for getting back to me. I look forward to this episode. I lived in Aspen for many years and have always wanted to see inside, and now I will. As you know so little is visible from the street it just looks like a hill. And thank you for all the other houses you covered. The Silvertop and Chemosphere houses were outstanding. I can't get my mind around the Bob Hope house. Lautner has an Amazing architectural mind.

[@dcrump]

Another wow!

[@williamdrijver4141]

Very impressive and fascinating by 2023 standards. Imagine the awe it must have created in the 1960s! Most expensive houses under construction today are a bit pathetic compared to Silvertop. (The only thing out of place imo is the tennis court).

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes like most designs by Lautner this house has an overlasting futuristic design that will never become dated. Also like many of his other houses: its large yet still sophisticated and stylish. A combination you don't see that often.

[@bionicsasquatch]

I would never let this John Lautner build a damn thing for me going over budget on a build and not caring he would have been kicking rocks down the road if he had done that to me.

[@nauscakes1868]

Am I reading that floor-plan correctly? If they have guests over, and the guests are visiting the main house and someone has to use the bathroom -- they have to go through a bedroom? Oh nvm, there's a "toilets" room next to the entrance.

[@SuperJobbel]

The two guest bedrooms in the main house have an entrance to one bathroom betwen them. Thiss bathroom has a toilet. The guesthouse has also one bedroom and bathroom with toilet.

[@Wordsley]

These Rock!

[@dominikaciepielewska1917]

What's the name od this enourmous white tree in rock garden? Eucalyptus?

[@SuperJobbel]

Honestly: I don't know.... I'm not really into botanics that much.

[@dominikaciepielewska1917]

Of this enormousl*😅

[@genetung8590]

Still more beautiful than the mega dollar pads on KZbin

[@SuperJobbel]

You're abolosutely right! Couldn't agree with any further :)

[@issues9828]

How long are you going to sit in those uncomfortable, thin-cushioned, shallow-seated, armless chairs in front of the fireplace? Ten minutes?

[@SuperJobbel]

I can sit in those chairs forever! such a beautifull house!

[@issues9828]

No arm rests, no way to pull your legs up onto the chair, no way to slouch to the side, no way to slouch way down comfortably --- you'd literally have to just sit upright, with your feet square on the floor, your legs straight out in front of you, your back reclined the entire time, and your arms squarely in a vertical position at your sides, or crossed. I actually do not believe you could sit comfortably in that single position for hours. I'm not buying it. @@SuperJobbel

[@juancarloshernandez4749]

Great¡¡¡

[@spencersetters3857]

What is the name of the house @ 8:50?

[@SuperJobbel]

It's the Farnsworth House in Illinois designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. A famous minimalistic house.

[@craigpatterson6225]

Who owns the house now ? In 2022 April .

[@SuperJobbel]

It's owned by Luke Wood, a music producer and the owner of Beats by Dre, a company that makes headphones.

[@craigpatterson6225]

@@SuperJobbel Thank You .

[@douglasfur3808]

Man there's a lot of Frank Lloyd and Lloyd Wright in this building. Rendered in Lautner's Hollywood style.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes Lautner was off course pupil of Wright.

[@SuperJobbel]

the channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHTNcoF5oM2Zfqs Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in a few months .

[@ColtraneAndRain]

They don't make art like this anymore. How tragic and sad is that?

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes I would love to build a Lautner home for myself, of a same style house.

[@fumusfumus]

Tracy Island in tv show "Thunderbirds" had nothing on this!

[@SuperJobbel]

Hahaha... I was also a fan of the Thunderbirds and have youth childhood memories of it. The tracy house looks a bit like the Fallingwater house by F.L Wright and the Round House (where thunderrbird 3 comes out) resembles the Chemosphere by Lautner. However the Sivleertop has no rockets coming out.

[@wallyp_l_z6329]

Methink tells me...he is possibly the best of the Architect's who apprenticed with Mr. Wright. However I've always had " a it's not quite right ",no pun intended. Then it hit me upside the head. He's using an organic tenet of scaling the house to the height of the Architect...I began to look at Mr. Lautner houses in regards to his height, my guess is, min 6'-0 tall, Mr.Wright wasn't. I started to look at the scale/proportioning differently.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes he was a tall man, but I don't know how tall mr. Lautner was. I also love the designs by F. L Wright.

[@mdleweight]

Seems like it was built for me.

[@SuperJobbel]

Haha... What a coincidence it also seems like it was built for me! I guess everybody loves it.

[@Sonicsmith]

I can guess which music producer owns this house...

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes it's Luke Woods, owner of Beats Electronics. Why can you guess who owns the house? Which details in the picture give it away? I'm interested.....

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

Moral of the story is, if you don't want to go bankrupt, never give an architect an open check book..

[@gregnulik1975]

Looks like the Iron Man house.

[@SuperJobbel]

Interesting that you mentioned it, because another house designed by Lautner was used as inspiration for the Iron Man hous: it;s the Beyer House. So it's the same style by the same architect.

[@israel8847]

Now we weep for not owning this marvel of a house.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes we're not that lucky

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

⬅️🔃

[@alfonsoamador958]

Looks like a fancy diner. 16 yrs to build? Over budget? Never lived in the house? This pad should be named Beautiful Failure....

[@sharksport01]

Show us your trailer.

[@dee_scussions]

I feel like girlfriends was filmed there.

[@SuperJobbel]

What's Girlfriends? A serie or movie? Never heard of it...

[@dee_scussions]

@@SuperJobbel It is a discontinued tv series. I will post the episode.

[@dee_scussions]

dee jay 1 hour ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/paWaopqCfNKYj5I Go to 23:15

[@amykolterman3744]

has anyone moderinzed these homes? The decor is quite out-dated

[@SuperJobbel]

I use photos from different time periods. I don't know how the interior looks nowadays.

[@georgespalding7640]

You're the type of person who would put a mustache on the Mona Lisa. True ART should be left alone.

[@randibgood]

@@georgespalding7640 Yes. You are correct. That would be like someone tearing out the built-ins from a FLW house.

[@MsBenlane]

i love the interiors and the furniture

[@black__bread]

Cocaine is a helluva drug

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

This one seems like he threw everything including the kitchen sink at is. Broke his client, which is bad. It lacks coherence. I like a lot of it, but it’s a mush mash and he spent a fortune on things like the drive way.

[@SuperJobbel]

It's truely a house commissioned by people with an unlimited budget.

[@stevenslater2669]

He lost my interest with “iron beams” in the driveway. Really? Completed in 1963 with iron beams. The narrator must be AI with a charming European accent; it still needs work.

[@SuperJobbel]

No, it's not AI. It's my own narration. I'm from the Netherlands and English is not my first language. Only started learning English when I was 18 years old, so please forgive me for any mistakes. This is a very old video, please check out my more recent videos, my language skills are much improved.

[@fragout9575]

​@@SuperJobbel you absolutely do not need to qualify your accent or assume some "mistake". Iron doesn't denote a mistake in any way. Steel and/or Iron has been interchangeable since the beginning of it's use in the industrial age that gave birth to highrise buildings. Ironworkers union STILL use that name and it's still said as "hanging iron"....

[@SuperJobbel]

@@fragout9575 Oh thanks for your comment. I didn't knew that. I will use both steel and iron in the videos.

[@swoondrones]

This is too complicated.

[@SuperJobbel]

Yes the house is full of gadgets. It's sometimes to much for people.

[@AndrewHuskisson]

I can't handle it! Enough with F**king music! It ruins your video. Plus hearing issues just accentuate the music and drown everything else out. Forget it, I stopped 3:51 unfortunately bc its very interesting. Sorry...

[@SuperJobbel]

You're right! Now I agree with you. In my later videos I use very different music with a lower volume. Making videos is a learning process for me: this video is one of my earlier ones. I'm sorry that you didn't like the music, Maybe you can watch the video without sound. Check my Fallingwater video that has the music.