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When the couple bought the home, the yard had mature native Ash, Oak, Cedar, and Douglas Fir trees, and a Japanese-inspired garden.

This $7.5M mansion is steeped in old Hollywood glamour, with luxe finishes and views from Downtown L.A. to the Pacific Ocean.

Is it or isn’t it by the modern master? We figured it out after architects Erik Amir and Dora Chi pulled off a reverent revamp.

The exterior of Albert Frey’s 1964 Frey House II in Palm Springs, California. Photo courtesy Palm Springs Art Museum

Designed by Charles M. Goodman, this townhome has an updated kitchen, floor-to-ceiling windows, and two airy upper-level bedrooms with curvaceous ceilings.

A photo from a 1972 photoshoot for Vogue magazine by fashion photographer Henry Clarke. At the dining room table with writer Joan Didion, novelist John Gregory Dunne, and their adopted daughter, Quintana Roo, in their Malibu, California home. Didion and Quintana Roo are seated on Hitchcock chairs, while Mr. Dunne sits in a peacock wicker chair as they eat at the Federal era drop leaf table. The floor is terracotta Mexican tile. (Henry Clarke/Condé Nast/Shutterstock)

Brick floors and teak built-ins run throughout the 1960 Bates Residence, which is wrapped in floor-to-ceiling glazing.

The home’s brick facade balances solidity with openness, framing lush gardens and the natural slopes of Paraty’s Costa Verde.

Built in 1959 by Richard Neutra apprentice Harwell Hamilton Harris, this unit is decked out with globe lights, a lofted sleeping area, and a double-height wall of glass.