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Case Study House No. 22: The story behind L.A.’s dream home

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The house has appeared in more than 1,200 newspaper and magazine articles, journals and books, not to mention a slew of films, TV shows and commercials. It is arguably the symbol of midcentury L.A. But to Bruce and Shari Stahl, shown here with dad Buck, Case Study House No. 22 was just home.

‘When you’re a kid, you don’t think of the house you live in as being anything unusual,’ says Mark Stahl, 42, whose family still owns the home. Read the story behind Case Study House No. 22 and the intriguing possibility that C.H. ‘Buck’ Stahl played an important role in the home’s design, long attributed to architect Pierre Koenig. And click here for the Stahl family’s photos of growing up in one of L.A.’s most iconic houses.

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-- Barbara Thornburg

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