The only “Case Study House” by architect Richard Neutra is on the market with an asking price of $10.5 million in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. The Bailey House, built in 1948, was designed by Neutra as part of the Case Study House Program overseen by Arts & Architecture magazine starting in 1945, when the notion of a post-war American sensibility was in its most nascent stage.
An introduction to the program in Arts & Architecture at the time begins: “Because most opinion, both profound and light-headed, in terms of post war housing is nothing but speculation in the form of talk and reams of paper, it occurs to us that it might be a good idea to get down to cases and at least make a beginning in the gathering of that mass of material that must eventually result in what we know as ‘house—post war.’”
Architects who participated include in Case Study House Program include Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, J.R. Davidson, and Neutra, who in the Bailey House employed his “Four-Courter” concept to blur the distinctions between indoor and outdoor living. The home was built for Dr. Stuart J. Bailey, a dentist, and his wife June Bailey, and the family owned it for more than 50 years. It was also owned at different times by Sam Simon, a cocreator of The Simpsons television show, and Australian fashionwear operator Lorna Jane.
See some highlight pictures from Baily House’s Compass listing below.
