The owner of the luxury house which featured in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski is donating it to an LA museum in the hope it will encourage people to build more creative homes.
James Goldstein has promised to leave the architecturally unique building, along with its gardens, art pieces and fashion collection to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
"Los Angeles should represent a city that's contemporary and moving into the future," Goldstein said.
"I want people to build houses in a way that haven't been done before that are moving into the future instead of the past, so I hope my house is an inspiration for that kind."
The house was featured prominently in The Big Lebowski, the Coen brothers' surreal stoner film, when Jeff Bridges' character, The Dude, finds himself at the house of sleazy pornographer Jackie Treehorn.
The residence, with its sweeping vistas of the Los Angeles skyline and coast, represents a quintessential Hollywood party house with low-slung couches and a well-lit pool snuggled into a corner where the roof curves into the ground.
"My favourite thing about this house really is the whole house and I mean it in a very specific sense that you walk through that little front door, you take a turn around in a narrow space with a low ceiling and you come through here and all of the sudden the house opens to the view of Los Angeles and you can feel like the house was designed in relation to that land, sea and sky of the Pacific Ocean and the coast of L.A.," said Michael Govan, the director of LACMA.
In an adjoining building, the owner has created "Club James," most recently the venue for a private post-Grammy Awards party, with a bar and seating carved into the concrete floors.
The property also includes a "Skyspace" light installation by artist James Turrell within the tropical gardens.
Goldstein, a self-confessed fan of film-making brothers Ethan and Joel Coen, said he was "very proud of my house being included" in the cult film.
The house also appeared in 2003's "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and is often used for high-fashion photo shoots, including Jennifer Lawrence's shoot for Vanity Fair.
The owner, dressed in a cowboy hat and a bright blue leather jacket stamped with his initials from his own clothing label, said he has spent decades enhancing the 1960s house built by John Lautner.
He co-designed many elements, from the frameless windows to the concrete floors, blurring the lines between the outdoor and indoor spaces.
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