Listing of the Week: Vidal Sassoon's Midcentury Modern classic

Another of Los Angeles’ Midcentury Modern masterpieces has come to the market, again.

The sprawling one-story estate known as the Singleton House, designed by Richard Neutra in 1959, is for sale after the death of its most recent owner, hairstylist Vidal Sassoon. Asking price is $17.995 million.

Sassoon and his wife, Ronnie, bought the home in 2004 for about $6 million and did a major restoration that included installing air conditioning, opening up small, dark rooms, repairing decades of dry rot and adding a master suite.

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The Sassoons were both architecture buffs and worked to preserve the spirit of Neutra’s work while making the home comfortable for modern living.

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"Unless the house is a museum, or you only spend a few weeks a year there, you just can’t live this way today," Ronnie Sassoon told Architectural Digest last year. "And given how valuable the land is, the house would have been torn down."

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The home is behind gates on five acres, in the hills above Los Angeles on famed Mulholland Drive. The one-story house has four bedrooms and five baths in 6,400 square feet, plus a pool, spa and landscaped gardens. The listing calls it “one of the most significant Modern homes in America.” 

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The walls of windows provide expansive views of the Pacific Ocean, downtown Los Angeles, the desert and the San Gabriel Mountains. The home was built for Henry Singleton, the co-founder of Teledyne. According to Architectural Digest, his wife didn’t like the expanses of glass, and the family moved in 1970 to a home designed by Wallace Neff. The family kept the home as a rental and put it up for sale in 2002 after Singleton’s death.

The Sassoons first put the house on the market in 2007, asking $19.995 million. They took the house off the market in early 2009. Sassoon, who had leukemia, died at home May 9. He was 84.