The history of the Goldstein Tennis Court begins with the Sheats-Goldstein Residence, originally designed and constructed by the renowned architect, John Lautner, in 1963 for the Sheats family, and was purchased by James Goldstein in 1972. This unique home, built with a minimal material pallet of concrete, steel, wood, and glass, contains almost no right angles and is built into a hillside that overlooks a view stretching from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Goldstein was so enamored by the house that he hired the original architect to remodel the home for years to come in an ongoing process they would call “perfecting the house.”

As the years progressed Mr. Goldstein purchased the adjacent property and requested a design from Lautner for a tennis court, guest house, and reception building. Lautner completed a schematic design for the project, but unfortunately passed away in 1994 before the working drawings could commence. Duncan Nicholson, one of Lautner’s project architects, had worked on many aspects of the continuing renovation and construction of the original house, and stepped forward to continue the vision of both the architect and owner. As the project was further developed, Mr. Goldstein requested additional programatic elements and a design for an office and entertainment facility below the tennis court was introduced.