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<i>By Dan Neil</i><br>
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Is it a garage or an art gallery with a Ferrari parked in it? Brentwood resident Holger Schubert's 1984 Ferrari 512 BBi "Boxer" makes its home in a 1,200-square-foot space that recently won Maserati and Architectural Digest's Design Driven contest for best garage. Schubert's "garage" -- hereafter I use the word with an asterisk of skepticism ? is breathtaking. Beautiful. Exquisite. But where are the tools, the work benches, the girlie calendars? Schubert concedes that it isn't a typical, oil-on-the-floor garage, and he's comfortable with that. "I wanted to create a backdrop for the car as a piece of art," he says. Tag along for a tour ...<br>
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Holger Schubert's award-winning garage

( Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times )

By Dan Neil

Is it a garage or an art gallery with a Ferrari parked in it? Brentwood resident Holger Schubert's 1984 Ferrari 512 BBi "Boxer" makes its home in a 1,200-square-foot space that recently won Maserati and Architectural Digest's Design Driven contest for best garage. Schubert's "garage" -- hereafter I use the word with an asterisk of skepticism is breathtaking. Beautiful. Exquisite. But where are the tools, the work benches, the girlie calendars? Schubert concedes that it isn't a typical, oil-on-the-floor garage, and he's comfortable with that. "I wanted to create a backdrop for the car as a piece of art," he says. Tag along for a tour ...

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