Supermodel Elsa Hosk Catwalks Into Richard Neutra’s Groovy Wilkins House
James McClain From the 1920s until his 1970 death, Richard Neutra designed more than 300 homes on his way to becoming an icon of modernist architecture. One of the Austrian-born legend’s more intriguing masterpieces is the so-called Wilkins House in L.A.’s suburban San Gabriel Valley city of South Pasadena, which recently sold for $4.3 million to Elsa Hosk, the Swedish international model who has graced dozens of magazine covers.Built in 1949, the Wilkins House was considered just another “ordinary” Neutra build until the early aughts, when it was discovered that the structure is actually a near-exact replica of Neutra’s plans for Case Study House #13, the never-actually-realized Alpha House.