My favourite house in the world

My favourite house in the world used to be the house in Hitchcock's film North by Northwest but then I found out last week that this house is not real; it is a set.

Yesterday, in Heffer's Bookstore, I discovered the original of that house, the real existing satellite-google-map-locatable House of My Dreams. It is the Stahl House (also known as Case Study House nr.22 because it was, apparently, part of a Case Study project run between 1945 and 1966 to promote modern low-cost housing in the Los Angeles area). It is on Woods Drive in West Hollywood. The architect is Pierre Koenig.

And here are pictures. I just love this house so much. I bought a book that has all the Case Study Houses in it, and I was drooling over it all last night. I may post pics of others in the near future.

This is one big drawback about living in England. Modernism somehow managed to pass England by.

Especially modernist architecture. Holland, Germany, Australia -- they all have their traditions of International Style type domestic housing. But England? Around the corner from where I'm living there's a huge residential development going up, and it's brick, tiny windows, two up-two down, living/dining/kitchen, low ceilings, just as if 90 years of architecture had never, ever happened. *weeps*

( House of My Dreams )

I am 12, and not in a good way.

( Warnings for navel-gazing angst about a possible move to California )