Ken Kellong: Desert House. The interiors are the most fascinating.

“In the 1980s, the Doolittles set out to find the organic architect who intrigued them with his designs of curved arches and walls. Like the famed architect John Lautner, Kellogg had made a name for himself in organic architecture from the Yen House near San Diego to the Hoshino Wedding Chapel in Japan. Unlike the clean angles of midcentury homes, his designs were rounded, with the look of molded clay. The couple eventually tracked Kellogg down from the California Architects Board. They sent him a letter and photos of their property.

Design began in 1988, and construction began soon afterward. The house made of concrete, steel, glass and copper overlays would sit on an irregular slope, nestled up against the hillside. Its foundation was jackhammered into the granite bedrock. The violent Landers earthquake in 1992 shook the house. But it held.

Kellogg brought John Vugrin, an interior designer and a craftsman in Yucca Valley, to the project. Vugrin designed Sputnik-inspired lights cut from marble a half-inch thick so light would glow through.” (from the USA Today feature)