“This is not simply an architecturally significant property. It’s a defining cultural object, one that shaped the visual language of modern Los Angeles.”
- Sam O'Connor
1635
Woods Dr
Los Angeles
Bedrooms
2
Bathrooms
3
Total Area
2,200 Sq. FT
Lot Size
12632.4 Sq. FT
Price
$20,000,000
The Stahl House
A house so famous, it’s inseparable from the identity of Los Angeles itself. Enter: Case Study House #22, better known as the Stahl House. Even people who don’t know its name know the silhouette instantly: steel, glass, impossible suspension above the city, Los Angeles glittering below. Nearly every modern hillside house that came after it owes something to this one. And yet, despite its cultural status, the house itself feels entirely livable.
Listed by William Baker, The Agency
Inside
Designed by Pierre Koenig in 1960, the Stahl House still feels radically contemporary because it understands something timeless: restraint creates drama. The structure is reduced almost entirely to steel, glass, proportion, and view. The city becomes the artwork. The architecture simply frames it. And that famous floating corner still feels slightly impossible in person. The interiors remain disciplined and deeply calm despite the spectacle outside. Light moves continuously through the house throughout the day, shifting the atmosphere hour by hour until the city fully takes over at night. For a house so globally recognized, it never loses its sense of intimacy.
Outside
The relationship between the house and Los Angeles is the entire point. The pool terrace, the long horizontal roofline, the uninterrupted panorama stretching from Downtown to the ocean, it all creates one of the most recognizable spatial experiences in American residential architecture. Positioned privately at the end of a gated drive, the house feels perfectly removed from the city it overlooks. Suspended above it, but detached from all its noise. And we could spend our entire lives by that pool.
The O' Factor
The Stahl House is beyond “real estate” entirely. This is not simply an architecturally significant property. It’s a defining cultural object, one that shaped the visual language of modern Los Angeles and influenced generations of architects, photographers, filmmakers, and designers afterward. The discipline of the architecture remains fully intact. And because it stayed within the original family for more than sixty years, the house still carries a sense of continuity and authorship that’s almost impossible to replicate now. There’s only one Stahl House.
The Homes we Represent,
Represent Us.
Every home has a soul. Every human has a place they were meant to be. Our instinct is knowing when the two finally meet. We honor architecture, preserve great design and celebrate the match. Welcome to O’Connor Estates. We’ve been waiting for you.
Proof is in the Properties
SOLD
Closed $200K over asking
SOLD
Closed for $1,589/sq ft
SOLD
Closed $250k over asking
