[1] The residence is on the ocean front, not far from The Wedge at Newport Harbor, in a tightly packed neighborhood of buildings.

The interior is arranged around a two-story living/dining room, with full height, curtain wall windows on the east and south side facing the ocean.

[2] The client for the project, Philip M. Lovell, was inspired by a style of healthy living, with guidelines for proper diet and exercise.

[3] The arrangement of the living quarters on the north side of the house maximizes the circulation of fresh air.

These two architects created houses that became classic forms of the new California residential design, and icons of the Modern movement in America.

The play of forms in the advancing and receding planes are related to the De Stijl movement begun in the Netherlands in 1917.