The best houses of all time in L.A.

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Stories by Sean Mitchell                    

<b>No. 1: Kings Road House Rudolph Schindler West Hollywood, 1921-22</b><br>
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If you imagine what most houses looked like in Los Angeles in the 1920s (Spanish, Victorian, shingle), the Schindler house would have been pretty exotic. "A radical rethinking of the man-made environment," as Schindler biographer David Gebhard put it, the house that the German-Austrian immigrant and Frank Lloyd Wright associate designed for himself and another family in the flatlands west of Hollywood forged a template for the now familiar indoor-outdoor lifestyle of Southern California. The house was really a duplex with a common kitchen, in keeping with its avant-garde communal premise.

Stories by Sean Mitchell

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No. 1: Kings Road House Rudolph Schindler West Hollywood, 1921-22

If you imagine what most houses looked like in Los Angeles in the 1920s (Spanish, Victorian, shingle), the Schindler house would have been pretty exotic. "A radical rethinking of the man-made environment," as Schindler biographer David Gebhard put it, the house that the German-Austrian immigrant and Frank Lloyd Wright associate designed for himself and another family in the flatlands west of Hollywood forged a template for the now familiar indoor-outdoor lifestyle of Southern California. The house was really a duplex with a common kitchen, in keeping with its avant-garde communal premise.

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