Case Study House Up for Sale

Case Study Houses were 36 experimental homes commissioned by Arts & Architecture magazine in the 1950s, when print media could afford to recruit celebrity architects as a daring promotional stunt. And build most of them. They come up for sale rarely, but Case Study House #18A, the West House, built by Rodney Walker, is up for sale for $10 million. It’s within breathing distance of the Charles and Ray Eames Case Study House #5 and Richard Neutra’s Stuart Bailey House (Case Study House #20A) on Chautauqua Boulevard. It is light, airy, usually described as “marvelous” and protected by landmark status—so, not only a post-war/modernist classic but as far from a tear-down as the Palisades gets.     

—JOHN HARLOW