La Miniatura, 645 Prospect Crescent, Pasadena, still on the market at $7,733,000.

August 24, 2008

La Miniatura — built in Pasadena in 1923 — is remarkable, even by Frank Lloyd Wright standards. One of only four of the famed architect’s local textile-block designs, this renovated home is considered by some to be the most romantic of that style, which features an open floor plan, a seamless indoor-outdoor flow and roof terraces for outdoor living, popularized in the early 20th century.

Wright’s textile-block creations were constructed of precast concrete blocks with patterned exterior surfaces through which natural light flows; the pattern of the blocks varies on each project.

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