Lijestrand House
Visiting Lijestrand House in March was the architectural highlight of 2023!
The visit was several years in the making as the first was canceled by pandemic closure and subsequent island visits conflicted with available time slots.
From Wikipedia:
The Liljestrand House was designed by Vladimir Ossipoff for Betty and Howard Liljestrand, a doctor and nurse who had bought the hillside site overlooking downtown Oahu in 1948. Completed in 1952, the house "was perhaps Ossipoff's most intricate as well as his most widely publicized domestic commission." After it was featured in House Beautiful magazine as a Pace Setter House in 1958, it attracted hundreds of visitors in organized weekly tours. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Though I grew up in Honolulu, I had rarely driven up Tantalus. It was high time to venture up this lush mountain into a world separate from the hustle of the city and tourist areas.
Our tour group size was small, only myself and two others. The intimate group only made the visit that much more special.
Much has been written about Vladimir Ossipoff’s modernist residential masterwork which can be found online.
Below a visual gallery of my visit:
Porte Cochère and Entry
Interior, upper level
Interior, lower level
Exterior
