To Do: John Lautner at the Hammer Museum

This house, the Chemosphere, was used in both Charlie's Angels, and Body Double.

If you've seen the movies Diamonds are Forever, Charlie's Angels or Body Double, you've oohed and aahed over John Lautner's work. We blogged a book of his work that was released in April. Now you can also catch photos, models, architectural renderings and videos of his work at a new exhibit, Between Heaven and Earth: The Architecture of John Lautner.

In Diamonds are Forever, James Bond has a memorable fight with female bodyguards Bambi and Thumper.

The exhibit, which opened yesterday at the Hammer Museum in Westwood and remains open through October 12, will include lectures, screenings, a symposium on modern and contemporary architecture, and house tours of notable modernist homes in Los Angeles.

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I think you mean Troy McClure's house. He paid good money for that house and you know damn well he deserves some respect for it.

posted by dreamtard on July 14th 2008 at 12:14pm
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He bought it after starring in A Fish Called Selma. It's great to see that other stars are as interested in architecture as Brad Pitt is.

posted by I_Heart_The_Eastside on July 14th 2008 at 12:23pm
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The actual chemosphere was not used in Charlie's Angels. The filmmakers created a set fashioned after the interior of the chemosphere, at about double its size. The second Charlie's Angels films featured the real Sheats-Goldstein house (also by Lautner).

posted by jlautner on July 17th 2008 at 8:40am
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