For $1.4 million, you can live in a sculpture next to Monterey Bay, with a "periscope."
"It was an experiment in space on my part," said Mary Gordon, a landscape architect who designed the house, a block from the ocean in La Selva Beach, Calif., for her husband and herself. "When you have curvilinear lines, they don’t really stop. It’s not like a square box. It was a piece of sculpture."
The curved lines and open floor plan were in part to disguise how small the house is, just 700 square feet, with one bedroom and one bathroom. But the bathroom is far from typical—with a custom-made 54-inch-diameter round soaking tub in front of bow windows.
A floating stainless steel and glass staircase leads from the living room and kitchen on the ground floor to the bedroom and bathroom, plus a tube-like protrusion with sea views. A ladder leads up further, to what Ms. Gordon dubbed the periscope, where she and her husband sometimes had dinner, with views of the bay.