To Malibu and Beyond: A Home That Looks Like the International Space Station Asks $20 Million – The Wall Street Journal

Imagine if the International Space Station landed on a Malibu, Calif., hilltop overlooking the ocean, and you might get somewhere close to envisioning the onetime home of the late Milton Sidley and his wife Saralyn Sidley.

The property is an eye-popping blend of curved steel and glass that appears at one end to hover over the landscape. From above, it looks more like a factoryor the secret lair of a Bond villainthan a family home.

It is not warmat least by conventional standards.

Everybodys definition of the word warm is very interesting, says Ed Niles, the Los Angeles architect who designed the home. Personally, I think its a state of mind. Yes, theres not a big roaring fireplace and there arent walls wrapped with a million paintings and drawings of your mother. But you can feel warm in that you feel secure. Its like being in a diving bell under the ocean. Youre encapsulated.

Mr. Niles designed and constructed the property for the Sidleys, then a couple of empty-nesters, in the late 1980s. Mr. Sidley died in 2019, so the station is landing on the market for $20 million.

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To Malibu and Beyond: A Home That Looks Like the International Space Station Asks $20 Million - The Wall Street Journal