The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced that the art collector James Goldstein has donated his John Lautner-designed house, which famously appeared in cult film The Big Lebowski, to the museum.
Along with the gift of the house, which features a coffered concrete roof with 750 tiny skylights, Goldstein is also giving his art and vintage fashion collection to the institution, as well as a $17 million (£11.9 million) endowment to maintain the structure and its contents. The five-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom house is surrounded by lush tropical gardens and set into a hillside overlooking Los Angeles.
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