This house by Craig Ellwood (1922-1992) in Los Angeles is on the market for $799,000 (£515,000). Located in Beverly Hills and designed in 1949, it has three bedrooms and was a precursor to the architect’s LA Case Study Houses 16, 17 and 18. Miesian-style steel beams support curtain windows with hillside views. Despite not having formal training in the profession, Craig Ellwood is one of the classic modernist Californian architects of the 1950s to 1970s, and became well-known and highly regarded, even teaching at Yale University. He set up Craig Ellwood Design in 1951 with his brother and two friends, with whom he had served in the war. Although Ellwood was the chief designer, the practice always contained a trained architect in order to sign off the drawings.

Ellwood was born Jon Nelson Burke. The name of his practice was inspired by a liquor store called Lords and Elwood located in front of his office. He later legally changed his own name to Ellwood.