The Stahl House Can Now be Yours for $25M

Attention architecture collectors, the legendary Stahl House (AKA Case Study House No. 22) has come on the market after 65 years of one-family ownership and care. Conceived by its visionary owners Bud and Carlotta Stahl for an “unbuildable” lot overlooking L.A., it was designed and engineered in 1959 by architect Pierre Koenig for the Case Study House Program. An early essay in steel and glass—materials generally reserved at the time for commercial projects—it brought a new awareness of what was possible in domestic design to a broad audience when the now-iconic images by Julius Shulman were published in Life Magazine in 1962.

Archival Image Courtesy of The Stahl Family, ©Julius Shulman Collection, Getty Research Center.

“When you look out along the beam it carries your eye right along the city streets, and the (horizontal) decking disappears into the vanishing point and takes your eye out and the house becomes one with the city below,” Pierre Koenig noted. With interiors largely subservient visually to the steel structure and expansive views, Koenig was able to take Le Corbusier’s concept of a ‘machine for living’ one step further; it’s an immaculately preserved element of L.A.’s rich architectural heritage.

Visit the listing for additional details and images. Represented by the architecture specialist William Baker at The Agency, this is an extraordinary opportunity to acquire one of the world’s most famous and influential houses and an icon of California Modernism. For more about the Case Study Houses and the idealism that spawned their creation, have a look at this outstanding video from the PBS Artbound series.

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