‘Delicate as the seashore’: rare Frank Lloyd Wright home sells for $22m

‘You are the only man who can do this – will you help me?’ wrote Della Walker in her letter to Frank Lloyd Wright. The artist complied and designed her house. Photograph: Matthew Millman/Courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty

The only oceanfront home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright has sold for $22m in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea, the dreamy coastal enclave where Clint Eastwood once served as mayor.

Known as the Mrs Clinton Walker house and the Cabin on the Rocks, the residence was built for the artist Della Walker in 1952, according to the Wall Street Journal, and had remained in the hands of descendants until this month when it was sold.