Elrod House was designed by the famous architect John Lautner and was used in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever. The swimming pool at the house can be used for either indoor or outdoor use. This is possible because there is a large panel of glass which slides across the centre of the swimming pool giving the impression that it is floating effortlessly above the water. Lautner is famous for bringing nature and his buildings closer together. He uses lots of glass in his constructions to help the occupant interact with outside and the interiors of his buildings are often open plan to encourage the feeling of nature throughout the house. Sometimes he uses parts of an object from his chosen site and incorporates it into his design. This could be a tree branch, a boulder or rocks etc. He was influenced by architects including Frank Lloyd Wright and there are similarities that can be seen between his designs and Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright. Many of the sites for his house designs always seemed to be beautiful. He had a site which was on the side of a hill and the house looked out over it (not so great if you are afraid of hights). Somes sites were in forests and looking over water, if only all architects were so lucky when given places to create a structure.
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