Smithsonian Magazine

This Historic Mid-Century Modern Home Overlooking Los Angeles Is on the Market for the Very First Time

Buck and Carlotta Stahl built their home in the Hollywood Hills in 1960. Soon after the structure's completion, it was ...
Mansion Global

A Los Angeles Home That Was the City’s First Modern Art Museum Is Returned to Its Early 20th-Century Glory

For years, lighting designer Jonathan Browning dreamed of buying and restoring a historic estate in West Adams, the south Los Angeles neighborhood that was home to the stars of the silent film era. “I ...

Iconic Stahl House, a Midcentury Modern stunner, up for sale

F or decades, the Stahl House in the Hollywood Hills has been a rarity — a globally known icon of Midcentury Modernism and Los Angeles glamour, still in the hands of the family who commissioned it in ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes

On a hot, dry November morning in 1961, flames from a trash pile on brushland north of Mulholland Drive were picked up by Santa Ana winds and swept across the canyons of one of Los Angeles’ wealthiest ...
NPR

Why some Los Angeles homes are being built to resist wildfires — and some aren't

Homeowners in Los Angeles have started the long process of rebuilding after the destructive wildfires in January. Some are constructing homes that are much less likely to burn when the next wildfire ...