OVER THE RAINBOW

t was pure good fortune that two visionaries with an appreciation for the arts and cultural heritage as ardent as John McIlwee and Bill Damaschke made the unique John Lautnerdesigned Garcia House in Los Angeles — also known as the Rainbow House, due to its multi-hued windows — their home. McIlwee, a business manager who self-describes as a kind of “financial therapist” to his entertainment industry clientele, says he was in college when he first saw the eye-catching three-bedroom structure, on motorbike rides up and down Mulholland Drive. Damaschke, a former chief creative officer for DreamWorks Animation who now has his own is, at the time of writing, slated to open in Melbourne this October — details seeing the 1962 masterpiece on frequent outings with McIlwee: “We didn’t know it was by John Lautner but every time we drove by we’d be like, ‘Who lives in that kooky house?’”