The Stahl House is being sold for the first time since the case study house was built
For decades, the Stahl house in the Hollywood Hills has been a rarity – a world-renowned icon of modernity and Los Angeles glamor, still in the hands of the family who commissioned it in 1960. But now it’s for sale.
With an asking price of $25 million, it could be seen as a hot two-bedroom, 2,300-square-foot home on a Snug Lot. But that number may not surprise modern architecture lovers who know how study house #22 is.
It was built for the Stahl family by Architect Pierre Koenig, captured on black and white film by photographer Julius Shulman and has been admired worldwide ever since.
An architect Newspaper called it “one of the most famous buildings in the world.” Los Angeles Magazine called Shulman’s “Perhaps the most famous photograph ever taken in Los Angeles.”
“There are no comps for the Stahl house. It’s incomparable,” said William Baker, director of real estate at The Real Estate Firm The Aversely Hills. The home was put into the company Fall Catalog Nov. 12.
By Friday afternoon, Baker said, he had received hundreds of inquiring calls. When looking at the offer, Baker said, the family is open to people or institutions – “someone who will understand, praise the house and talk about it.”
The Stahls bought the lot in 1954 for $13,500 and enlisted Koenig to design the house after other designers were put down for the lot. Koenig’s solution was a LATIILEDED L-SAMED building with steel and glass walls, a pool and a free-standing stone between the living and dining areas.
A second bedroom can only be accessed through the primary bedroom – “Good use of space” for a family of five, says Baker. The Stahl family said the home cost $37,500 to build.
Shortly after the home was completed, photographer Julius Shulman created a timeless black-and-white photograph. It shows a home at night, with two young women sitting inside in a rich corner, its floor-to-ceiling windows revealing sparkling lasin lamps in the background.
To bring in the lights, Shulman later told Los Angeles Magazine, he used a seven-minute exposure. The resulting image, along with other Shulmans made at home, is now owned by the Getty Research Institute.
In the years since then, the home has served as a filming location for many TV and film productions, including the 1968 pilot episode of “Columbo” and the movies “The Guardian of the Galaxy” (1999).
“This home has been the center of our lives for decades, but as we have grown, it has become more challenging to maintain it with the attention and energy it deserves,” the Stahl family announced on its website. Bruce and Shari Stahl, the surviving children of co-owners and Carlotta Stahl, added, “[O]The Ur Tour schedule will remain unchanged for the time being, and we will provide adequate notice before any changes are made. “
For the past 17 years, the house has been open for tours, recently on Wednesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, starting at $ 60 per adult, in the evening in advance, with the necessary prior restriction of photos. However, Stahl website It shows that all tours are sold out by the end of February.
The property’s listing is a sign that the home is “a protected landmark and the only academic home with original family ownership.”
Designating it for the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, Amanda Stewart of the Los Angeles Conservancy called it “perhaps the most iconic house built in the Mid-Century House system.” This program, sponsored by John Entenzela Art & Construction Magazine from 1945 to 1966, produced 25 completed homes, today considered top examples of home construction.
“There’s not one of these study houses left. I think there are 19 now,” Baker said. (Baker also said he recently managed the sale of Case Study House # 10 (Pasadena to a buyer who lost a home in the Pacific Palisades Fire.)
The STAHL Home stands on Woods Drive just north of downtown West Hollywood, about a quarter of a mile from the Conteau Marmont.
Many of the homes that have been sold in southern California and nearby financial institutions have come into the hands of institutions, including Frank Lloyd’s Hollyhock House of Hollyhock (1921), owned by the city of Los Angeles; Schindler House (1922), owned by the Friends of Schunder House and serving as the Mak Center for Art and Architecture; and ONES House (1949), owned by the nonprofit expofit Foundation. The Sheats-Goldstein Residence, designed by John Lautner in 1961-63 and renovated by Lautner in the 1990s, has been promised by owner James Goldstein to LA County Museum of Art.
