I can't! I'd much rather live in the stable. :-)

I pretty much agree with the assessment, it's a masterful work in post-Modernism. It's late for post-Modernism which I think had its short heyday in the 1980s, so I personally think the overall building is part-post-Modernist, part Deconstructionist but the interiors are pure post-Modernism. The thing that is so nice about it is that it doesn't rely much on some of the intentionally absurd or useless qualities of post Modernism. There's no sofa shaped like a boxing ring, slanted shelves, and things like that. It's a really stand-out example of what it is, but you have to be able to appreciate living in a cartoonish sort of environment.

It looks to be exceptionally well crafted and seems designed to get light all through the interiors.

The price seems consistent with the area.

Wow! Love, love, love! I'm not sure I could live in a house that dictated its furnishings quite so assertively- but I am a huge Sottsass fan and can hardly believe we have a house designed by him in my area. Most of the extraordinary houses on the SF Peninsula are McMansions on steroids.

ETA Just saw it's David Kelly's house- how much design talent can coexist in one house??

It's pretty cool. I like the large complex overall and the space by the pool.

It looks like it was built as something other than a single family home. I'm thinking exclusive drug rehab center or some other commercial venture.

I determined not to like it after viewing the photos, but once I'd seen the video there's no denying that there were aspects of it that I found quite appealing. The interior had more of a warmth to it than I would've expected, based upon the exterior which does indeed remind me of an exclusive treatment facility.

I think the commercial associations came After postmodernism as a design vocabulary. Postmodernism was not embraced as a residential form so much and I am not sure it was meant to be. But I do think it made a strong impression on the healthcare design sector because it's both simple and modern but also warmer and more cheerful and colorful than straightforward modernism.

So I don't think this looks so much like a healthcare facility as healthcare facilities look like IT.

To give this some context, the following are either iconic, or tour-de-force pieces of postmodernism. I don't think this was meant to be taken completely seriously. It's collectible--the kettle is still produced.

This isn't particularly to persuade anyone to like it, I am not sure whether people were supposed to like it in a normal sense, anyway. I think calling it ugly would not be considered an insult by the movement either. I think it was a challenge to conventional esthetics....

Geatano Pesce Manhattan Sunrise sofa:

Memphis Milano First Chair (Michele de Lucchi)

Ettore Sottsass Carlton bookcase/room divider

Robert Venturi Grandmother's Tablecloth chair

Memphis Milano Lamp (Martine Bedin)

Michael Graves vanity

Michael Graves chair

Michael Graves Tea Kettle

I snagged some stills from the video.

I was impressed with the built-ins throughout.

The kitchen seems reassuringly normal.

Love the breezeway (hate the wardrobes and don't know what to make of the strange piece of furniture in the foreground).

The office looks like a psychologically uncomfortable space to me. I don't know how much of that is the all-over blue and how much is the volume of the space (seems cavernous for an office).

I thought the craftsmanship on the bedroom woodworking was amazing, even if the shapes are unexpected.

I love the moody blue bathroom

I can't help but think the pink tile bathroom was meant to be ironic.

One of the sort of "illogical" design features I see with the built-ins is that the top drawer and door faces project above the tabletop of the piece.

It seems illogical on the face of it but on the other hand it is a way to hide a small amount of clutter on top of the piece, and it's not an area you would sit, where you would need access to a completely flat surface.

While I like certain aspects of the house, I don't think post-modern translates all that well to a residential context. And I don't like all the bright colors they used -- yellow for cabinetry, turquoise for hall, pink for a bathroom, jade green for another, rust orange for the window trim -- it just feels disjointed and overdone.

But when post modern architecture is done right, it is pure brilliance:

I'm still trying to wrap my head around what, exactly, postmodern architecture encompasses. I assume the F&F Tower (foreground) in Panama City would be an example?

While I do like the interior spaces and find them fascinating, I find the exterior spaces to be a hodge podge of disparate entities with really no rhyme or reason to them. Interior and exterior spaces should relate to one another and these don't

The first prominent work of post-modernism, or the first postmodern residence is considered to be Venturi's "Mother's House" or the Vanna Venturi house. It has a big gable shape on the front that does not completely reflect the smaller structure behind.

Post modernism in architecture was a response to modernism being distilled all the way down to a glass box in the 1950s. Post modernism in art a response to art being minimalized to the white canvas. Post modernism in interior design was a response to furniture being distilled down to basics including inflatable vinyl furniture and pieces of foam. Without a completely new technology there was not much more that could be done to create new "serious" furniture or art.

So the disparate entities of the exterior and the disparate elements combined to create a single piece of furniture are all intentional. It doesn't mean you have to appreciate it or like, but it is on purpose.

But this house (partly by being so late after the pure postmodernist era) I would call transitional between post modern and deconstructivist. and Frank Gehry 's current work I would call pure deconstructivist. And his work has been influenced by the availability of the computer to aid in the design. (Compare this to Saarinen's TWA terminal --not post modernist --which had to be designed using models and without computers)