Pearlman Mountain Cabin by John Lautner Overview and Walkthrough
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The Pearlman Cabin is a famous example of organic architecture. Despite being small and cheaply build, it is regarded as one of John Lautner best works. I made this overview and walkthrough based on my own drawings and pictures I found on the internet. To preserve the legacy of John Lautner and to enjoy the beauty of his work.
another ones, another masterpiece..!!
Another treat. Open, yet cozy and comfortable. :)
Yes very well spoken! :)
Honestly, I can’t quite understand your love and appreciation for Lautner’s works…. Other than that I share that same admiration myself! However, that you have been and do take the time and care to craft these tours is extremely admirable. It’s just delightful to your have been able to encounter your efforts here to present these amazing designs and constructions.
Thank you, I love the houses by John Lautner because they are so diverse: each home is totally different than the other one. I like to make these videos, because when I do the research I discover the amazing details and all the inventions. So for me: while making these videos I have the same feeling as the audience: the feeling of discover all the genius inventions by Lautner. I started to make these videos because there were simply no videos available!
@@SuperJobbel you have indeed filled a void with your fantastic films! I have almost ever book in Lautners work and nothing compares to your approach in presenting his work. Yes, the books are fine but until your “tours”, it has been impossible to really get a feel for the reality of the buildings. Your illustrations and detailed and methodical and complete tour of every aspect of the locations and the interior spaces really allows your audience (me in this case) to feel like they “know” the building. Simply stated these are great little films and indeed to fill a need. Thank you so much again! Cheers
@@mlbreel Yes, that was exactly my intention with making these videos: I also own a lot of books about Lautner, but in none of them you get a change to ''know'' the houses. I want to make complete tours, with all the details, for the people who never have a change to visit them.
@@mlbreel Well-stated.
Beautiful!
once again, thanks for your effort. superb
You're welcome! I like making these videos, so more content will come up!
So tasteful.
Yes it is!
I would love to live in that home. These homes take my breath away. 💜
Yes, me too. That's why I started this channel: to show everyone the beauty of this designs.
Built one yourself and amaze us!
@@dragonmartijn I’m so interested in this channel because we once lived in a hexagon house. My husband and I built a matching shed. Angles are a challenge.
Fascinating build
Another excellent architour through another Lautner mastepiece, well done yet again my friend! G
Thank you! Your message makes me happy! :)
Great work again!
Thank!
Great elaboration on details like the windows and acoustics. Thanks.
You're welcome. New videos will come up.
I have a cabin in this neighborhood and love his house. We actually have some great architecture here in the California mountain's. Thanks for posting!
You're welcome! i love to make these videos so more content coming up! great that you have a cabin in the californian wilderniss, it must be a beautifull place there.
Just found your channel. Thanks you for sharing your passion for Lautner's architecture.
Yes i really like to share my passion for Lautner, also because I think he's underrated and it was hard to find information about his houses. i want to make vids about all his houses.
I invite you to call Nancy Pearlman to arrange for a new video of the cabin. She spent much money and time to repair and repaint the cabin. The faded-to-yellow overhang is now the original green. And I did manage to 'disappear' the cracks above the fireplace.
Okay, great to hear that you restored the Pearlman Cabin! It's an honour to meet you. Yes I'm aware that the photo's in this video a bit outdated, but it where the only photos available back then when I made the video. If you have good quality photos of the restored house, I can make a new video with better photos. I would love to contact Nancy Pearlman to make a new video, unforunately I live in the Netherlands so it's a long time travelling for me. I visited a lot of Lautner houses during my vacation in California, but this one was not one of them.
@@SuperJobbel At the moment, snow. When the weather clears, all other work permitting, perhaps I can work through the video photo by photo and send you .jpgs to overlay the older images. Same scene, same framing, so that the replacement only needs to be overlaid on the video editing timelime.
And there are details Nancy Pearlman would hope to correct. For example, Agnes Pearlman did not search California for a cabin location. She and her husband, Dr. Pearlman, worked with Isomata / later Idyllwild Arts. They served on the Board of Directors. They tired of renting hotel rooms. Agnes Pearlman searched Idyllwild for a site. At that time, Isomata had subdivided open mountainsides outside of the school. Money limited the Pearlmans to buying the 'unbuildable' lot. Agnes Pearlman then shopped architects. Again, money limitations. Lautner needed work, he showed up, Agnes Pearlman told she wanted the view, and told him how much she and her husband could possibly pay. He designed for their limitations.
Contractors would not try the project. The brother of Agnes Pearlman, Bill Branch, an out-of-work failed baseball player, had experience building apartment houses with the extended Branch family. He had the skill and discipline to live on site and build the cabin, hiring sub-contractors as required. Blasting the center rock, bringing in cedars for verticals that matched the cedars growing in Idyllwild, a commercial glass company with a crane to place the windows, a steel-working shop for the center 'yoke' to secure the beams in the middle of the roof. When snow came, Bill Branch tired of living in a tent. He modified the Lautner plans to make a bedroom for himself. Later, Dr. Pearlman snored in that bedroom while the family and friends slept in the circular main room.
The Lautner plans for the shower plumbing also had to be modified due to freezing. The brother of Nancy Pearlman redesigned the bathroom to avoid future freezing and allow for effortless servicing of the shower valves.
Endless details. A great demonstration of concept, artistry, and craftsmanship.
When architects visit, Nancy Pearlman gives the family history and the dealing with Lautner, I offer the architects a point-by-point tour of the modifications required over time to make the cabin safe in the difficult Idyllwild environment.
Thank you for making the video. Nancy Pearlman is very flattered by the attention to the cabin. Tell any other architects, designers, enthusiasts they need only call her to arrange for a visit. Idyllwild is very pleasant. And there is also a secret second Lautner cabin made after the family and Lautner thought of improvements on the first.
@@videoadventures5864 Thank you very much for your detailed information and lots of feedback. This is really helpfull to me. It would be fantastic, really fantastic, if you could send me new and better photos. Then I can lay the new photos over the old photos in the video and we have a more updated and better quality film! :) Do you have also photos of the bedroom? I never could find photos of the sleeping area. when I make the new video, I shall change the incorrect details in the information. Let's stay in touch: you can contact me at misterlinde@gmail.com. Thank you and I speak to you soon. :)
No Doubt Money Lauudering💯
מדהים, ההשוואה שאתה עושה בסוף ביחס לפרוייקטים אחרים שלו, ממש מחכים.
תודה רבה על הסרטונים המעולים שאתה מייצר, זה מקור מעולה ללימוד אדריכלות
אתה מוזמן, אני מאוד עסוק בעבודה כרגע, אבל סרטונים חדשים ייצאו בעוד כמה שבועות. אני לא דובר עברית אגב אבל משתמש בגוגל טרנסלייט כדי לתרגם את זה.
Interesting that adding a flat ceiling improved acoustics. It's my understanding that flat parallel surfaces create refections, echoes, standing waves, etc.
Unless that ceiling is covered with acoustic material.
Yes the ceiling is covered with acoustic material.
@@SuperJobbel thanks for the info. I never imagined J.L. would have made an error. Such genius, mastery of materials, and integration with the landscapes. Thank you this channel and introducing me to his works. 👏👏
How did they installed the glass? Did they slide it from the top? That's insane! Amazing thing to pull off but really it would have been great if you explained how they installed the glass not just that there are grooves everywhere. Even to make that weatherproof is astonishing. Nobody in current construction would even think to be able to do that. They would just say it's impossible.
Two answers to your questions:
1- I don't know if the first answer is correct or not, so please don't judge me if it isn't correct: But I speculate that glass plates indeed where shoved in the treetrunks from the top, before the roof was placed. The grooves in the treetrunks are considerably wider than the glassplates so it must be easy to slide them in. With isolation glue/ liquid rubber/ kit they enclosed the space between the glass plates and the grooves in the treetrunks. I didn't include this information in the video because I wasnt sure of it. I had no evidence pictures to show in the video.
2- Because the roof cantilevering, rain will not fall over the windows. There is not much wind/ horizontal rain, because many large trees are in front of the house. The house was also built as a cabin for recreational use, not a home to life in fulltime. So isolation is not optimal.
Thank goodness it's survived the wildfire's.
Yes , there were many wildfires over the years. But apparantly God is kind to the hisory of modern archtiects. Hopefully there will be no fires in southern california anymore.
@@SuperJobbel sorry but there will be fires after which the rains come and there are mudslides
@@MsBenlane Oh so bad to here that! hopefully they will find some way of fire prevention.
@@SuperJobbel it's called fire breaks, but Cal is so screwed up and homes are compact fuel. it's an endless cycle in Cal of drought/flood.
🙏👍
it's wonderful framing. it would be ideal to show all the wood framing he covers up with the cone roof at about 6/12 pitch. too bad he didn't have 6" rigid insulation to put over the roof deck and then roof it in metal or shingles. and if those windows are still single pane the house would be unlivable 6 months out of the year. even in the mountains it can get very hot/cold in the summer and of course winter is really cold. i designed and built a home that's a modified hexagon. using trusses it was really fast framing.
The windows are commercial plate glass. In the summer, the cabin and trees shade the windows. In the winter, the windows radiate all internal warmth to the atmosphere. Very expensive to heat. Contact Nancy Pearlman for a visit.
This house is a woodgame house
Auri Kananen
Haha..you mean that mabye he could clean up the house a bit LoL
current codes might not allow the use of ungraded natural timber (logs). Lautner was decades ahead of his time - still is. Sophisticated structural design is one of the more unheralded aspects of Lautner's work. And he had no formal schooling in architecture or engineering?
Yes, Lautner never was formally educated to be an archtiect. He started as an assitent of F. L Wright and worked for 8 years for him. During that time he learned everything from him. Ineed nowadays natural timeber logs aren't allowed to use, but in Lautner's time there weren't hardly any restrictions, so he had way more freedom. Allowing him to design the most daring structures imaginable. He was possibly one of the most forward thinking archtiectes of all time.
@@SuperJobbel
One might also be hard pressed to find a glazing contractor who would recess large sheets of glass into surrounding materials - even stable predictable materials. There's a great deal of 'gee whiz effect' in architecture today. Lautner's brilliant innovations always served a purpose. He may have been inspired by Wright but he never copied anyone. If one steps back from the crowd these videos testify to the timelessness of Lautner's work