Modern 88 — Garden-Facing Los Angeles Mansion Filming Location with Gallery Interiors and Pool

Modern 88 is a contemporary modern mansion in Los Angeles with tall, gallery-like volumes, long interior sightlines and a garden-facing rear elevation. White walls, pale tile floors and restrained architectural lines create a neutral frame for artwork and furnishings, while the broad lawn, curved pool and mature perimeter planting give exterior setups substantial depth. The mansion is available for location work.

Open-Plan Filming Interiors

The double-height entry opens beside a long dining room, then looks through the central hall toward the rear garden. An open metal-railed staircase and upper bridge preserve views between levels, creating useful high and low camera positions. Skylights cut diagonal shafts across the dining-room wall, while clerestories and a large gridded window bring daylight in above eye level. A spacious formal living room has pale tile flooring, a grand piano, red lounge chairs and broad sliding glass doors facing the lawn. It is the mansion’s strongest space for editorial, providing clean white planes, colorful furniture and enough open floor around the central seating group for varied compositions. A second lounge reads warmer and more intimate, with black leather seating, built-in wood shelving and a direct opening to the kitchen. The kitchen itself has extensive honey-toned cabinetry, granite counters, stainless appliances and a large island that allows shooting down its length.

Pool, Patio And Screened Grounds

The rear elevation is a low, white composition of flat roofs, deep overhangs and full-height sliders. A furnished covered patio runs directly off the house, giving scenes a shaded threshold between interior and garden. Beyond it, square pavers cross the lawn toward the pool and hold strong linear perspective back to the architecture. The modern pool has a broad curved outline, pale concrete decking and a raised rectangular spillway against a hedge. Trees and clipped planting wrap the yard, with tall cypress, citrus and dense greenery screening the perimeter. There is room to frame the pool from across the large lawn rather than working only from the deck. White loungers and outdoor dining furniture establish relaxed residential action, and a built-in counter at the patio edge supplies another practical background without breaking the clean garden geometry.

Production Light And Arrival

Natural light is strongest in the dining room and formal living area. It enters from the rear glazing, the tall side window and overhead skylights, producing bright walls and distinct moving sun patterns. When that light becomes harder, the roofed patio offers open shade and the inner lounge provides a more controlled alternative. Upstairs bedrooms and the office are quieter environments, with smaller windows and blinds that reduce daylight more readily. The private suite has a long bedroom volume with a separate window-side sitting area. Its bathroom shifts to marble, pairing a deep tub surround with a long double vanity, wall-wide mirror, dark floor tile and a tall skylit ceiling. Secondary bedrooms have conventional proportions and carpeted floors, making them credible everyday residential settings rather than oversized show rooms. For Los Angeles shoots, crews can coordinate permit planning with FilmLA while approaching through a broad concrete drive bordered by bamboo, lawn and mature trees. A solid metal pedestrian gate, paved forecourt and sheltered entry courtyard offer several distinct arrival beats before the camera reaches the main interior axis.