LA’s Iconic Stahl House Hits the Market for the First Time Asking $25M | 1635 Woods Dr.

Los Angeles magazine called this image of the Stahl House (Julius Shulman/ J. Paul Getty Trust), “perhaps the most famous picture ever taken of Los Angeles.” Architect Pierre Koenig’s Stahl House,  considered for over half a century an iconic of Los Angeles mid-century modern design, is on the market for the first time since it was built in 1959.

1635 Woods Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90069

$25,000,000 | 2 Beds | 2.5 Baths | 2,200 Sq. Ft. | $11,364 Price/Sq.Ft. | .28 Acres | Built in 1959 | LAHCM No. 670

The glass-and-steel residence, poised high in the Hollywood Hills, was listed this week with an asking price of $25 million. In a statement explaining the decision to sell, the Stahl family, which has owned the home for its entire 65-year history, said the property had simply become too difficult to maintain.

It’s a remarkable asking price for a two bedroom home on just over a quarter of an acre of hillside land, but that figure is unlikely to surprise admirers and aficionados of mid-century modern architecture, particularly in Los Angeles who know the property as Case Study House No. 22.

Who in Los Angeles hasn’t been transfixed by that now-mythic image of Pierre Koenig’s Stahl House, Case Study House #22, seemingly suspended above the basin in a haze of light and possibility? Completed in 1960 for the Case Study House program, it stands as one of the city’s most recognizable mid-century landmarks.

Launched in 1945 by Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza, the program set out to redefine postwar living through efficient, reproducible design built from modern industrial materials. Few projects embodied that ambition more clearly than the Stahl House, whose glass-and-steel geometry distilled the program’s ideals into something at once rigorous and glamorous.

Buck and Carlotta Stahl found in Koenig a partner who understood the site’s improbable magic. Where others saw a problem, he saw potential, using assertive rooflines and the largest sheets of commercially available glass to create a structure that reads as both shelter and aerie.

Its lasting fame owes much to Julius Shulman, the master photographer who chronicled Southern California’s evolution and helped cement the optimism of its postwar Modernism. His most celebrated image of the Stahl House (pictured above)—two women lounging in a luminous living room suspended above the glittering city—captures not just a house, but an era’s entire state of mind.

In 1999, the house was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. While in 2007, the American Institute of Architects listed the Stahl House (#140) as one of the top 150 structures on its “America’s Favorite Architecture” list, one of only eleven in Southern California, and the only privately owned home on the list.

The Stahl House’s influence on architecture, visual culture, and the very idea of Los Angeles is arguably without parallel.

Set high above the sunset strip, blocks above the Chateau Marmont and just a stone’s throw from fellow architectural marvel and historic cultural monument Frank Lloyd Wright’s Storer House, the property occupies a rarefied perch above the city, offering seclusion, security, and a profound sense of calm, with discreet exterior cameras reinforcing its privacy.

The positioning of the home allows the perfect vantage point where mountain, ocean, and city views converge. One glass-lined wing of the L-shaped structure extends toward the cliff’s edge. Its open plan and absence of interior walls give it unbroken vistas in every direction.

The second arm, also fully glass, cradles the pool deck at the center of the structure and is designed to align with Sunset Boulevard just below it.

The home is topped by a beamed steel roof that hangs over the glass edges, creating shaded bands around the footprint of the house.

This is a once-in-a-generation chance to steward a cultural landmark. For design collectors, architectural patrons, or institutions committed to preserving an American masterwork, there is nothing else that rivals it.

As the listing puts it, “This is not merely a sale; it is a passing of responsibility — a search for the next custodian who will honor the house’s history, respect its architectural purity, and ensure its preservation for generations to come.”

Interested in purchasing this iconic home? I would love to get you a private tour of the Stahl House designed by Pierre Koenig in the Hollywood Hills. Call me today at (323) 697-3040 or email me at jacqueline.tager@sothebyshomes.com.

Jacqueline Tager | DRE# 1476997
jacqueline.tager@sothebyshomes.com | (323) 697-3040
Sotheby’s International Realty – Los Feliz Brokerage
1801 N Hillhurst Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90027

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