He also knew the architect, the modernist Jerrold Lomax, and was even friendly with the house's owner, an attorney for a real estate developer who had commissioned it in the 1970s. “I watched the house being built,” Taylor says. “And when it was done, it was just spectacular.”
Of the roughly 48 years that Larry Taylor has lived on the beach in Malibu, California, he spent some 35 of them coveting a house down the street.
“My original house is about 17 houses further west,” says Taylor, who is the founder and chief executive officer of Malibu-based Christina real estate investors. “I knew the lot, which was probably the best lot on the entire stretch of Malibu Colony Beach,” he says, referring to a favoured strip of land just north of Los Angeles.
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