Some years ago, we had the opportunity to conduct an incredible shooting at the Sheats-Goldstein residence, a dramatic modernist building that almost overhangs the Hollywood Hills and was build in 1963 by the American architect John Lautner.

The villa at once tests the boundaries of conventional notions. The industrial poured concrete oddly harmonizes with the lush fauna throughout. And the villa was envisioned from the inside out, just like a sculptural cave. It is a blend of structure and space, an extension of the natural environment with one of the most notable features being the sloping triangulated concrete roof that culminates at a ridge, directing your eye out to the view over the city of Los Angeles.

It is still today the eccentric millionaire James F Goldstein also named "Crocodile Dandy" because of his snakeskin boots and incredible hat colletion who owns and live in the unique villa.