PRESERVATION MIRAGE PRESENTS RICHARD NEUTRA’S MASLON HOUSE

Preservation Mirage is making its first foray into filmmaking with a documentary short, Preservation Mirage Presents Richard Neutra’s Maslon House. The film chronicles the life of The Maslon House, Richard Neutra’s residential masterpiece built in 1962.

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The house was commissioned from the renowned modernist architect Richard Neutra by Luella and Sam Maslon, noted art collectors from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Maslons secured a lot on the 12th fairway at Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage. Neutra designed a quintessential modern home with a flat roof with long overhangs, floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and long gallery walls to house their significant collection, including pieces from Frank Stella, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, and a veritable who’s who of modern art. It was one of only three Neutra-designed homes in the Coachella Valley.

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In 2002, the house was razed, sparking international outrage and profoundly transforming the ethos of Rancho Mirage and the Coachella Valley forever. This new film commemorates a lost masterpiece by one of the leading architects of the modernist period and the culture of architectural preservation left in its wake.

Through archival photographs, home movies, new footage, and firsthand accounts, the film, produced by Streeterville Productions and directed by Scott Goldstein, explores the architect, the client, the art collection, and the home allowing the audience to connect to this lost architectural treasure.