The Laurel Canyon 8,000sqft home and recording studio of the late Frank Zappa is for sale, resulting in a few photos showing some rare photos of what is believed to be his creative den aka The Vault. The grand wazoo is $9m.
 
The den appears to have uncoursed reclaimed bricks pattern walls embedded with glass bricks, circular glass lights, old green glass wine bottles, and a door from an old ship or submarine. Another photo shows reclaimed spiral brick pillars and low garden wavy reclaimed brick walls.
 
Incidentally, in 1977 Zappa made a famous prediction using a brick wall as a metaphor for the structure behind the illusion of democracy in society: '"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.' He also said he was a conservative, and the biggest threat to USA was not communism but was the movement in America towards a fascist theocracy.
 
We don't know who built the reclaimed brick walls in Laurel Canyon (any suggestions?), but it would be nice to think that Zappa built them himself, like another iconic conservative figure of the twentieth century and amateur brick wall builder, Winston Churchill.