From an article in the newyorktimes.com, 5/14/08

Considering that a painting went for more than $50 million, the Kaufmann House, in Palm Springs, Calif., a 1946 Modernist landmark in glass, steel and stone designed by the architect Richard Neutra, was a veritable bargain. It was being sold by Brent Harris, an investment manager, and Beth Edwards Harris, an architectural historian, who are divorcing.
The home, which was originally commissioned as a desert retreat by Edgar J. Kaufmann, the Pittsburgh department store magnate for whom Frank Lloyd Wright built Fallingwater in Pennsylvania a decade earlier, met its low $15 million estimate (or with commission, $16.8 million).
After the sale, Marc Porter, Christie’s president in America, said the buyer, whom he declined to name, exercised an option to purchase an orchard adjacent to the property for an additional $2.1 million that includes three cacti that were a present from Frank Lloyd Wright to Mr. Kaufmann on his first visit to the home.
It isn’t the first time a Modernist house has been sold at auction. Over the years both Christie’s and Sotheby’s have offered such architecturally important dwellings as Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and a 1950 town house on East 52nd Street that Philip Johnson designed as a guest house for Blanchette Rockefeller, the wife of John D. Rockefeller III.

C.A.R. GREEN TIP OF THE WEEK: KILL A WATT AND SAVE A BUCK

Your office probably has machines or plugs that "suck" electricity or use electricity on a constant basis with no benefit to the company, i.e., printers, chargers for portable devices, etc. One way to identify these amperage-sucking "vampires" is to connect these devices to the Kill-a-Watt TM Electricity Usage Monitor (retails for approximately $24).The Kill-a-Watt TM unit's large LCD display counts consumption by the kilowatt-hour, the same as your local utility. You can calculate your electrical expenses by the day, week, month, or year. You'll know if it's time for a new refrigerator in the office break room or if that old air conditioner is cost-efficient. Available from Amazon.com or other online vendors.C.A.R.'s "Green Tips" are a new feature of "C.A.R. Newsline" and are part of the Association's effort to raise member awareness about environmentally sound practices and offer REALTORS® ideas for greening their business practices and better serving their green-minded consumers. For more green real-estate-related tips and discussion, visit C.A.R.'s green blog: http://www.car.org/blogs/index.php