ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME

ARCHITECTURE STREET CRED: AT THE CORNER OF GENIUS AND INGENUITY

Size and stats: 3,600 square feet First floor: Open area includes dining, kitchen, studio and library/tea room. Upstairs: Open atrium area and two bedrooms. Built in the 1970s by Edwin and Ann Janss, art collectors. Believed to be the first single-family home designed by architect Frank Gehry. Location: Little Osaka, also known as Sawtelle Japantown, in Los Angeles. This popular neighborhood once included botanical nurseries run by Japanese immigrants. They settled here because other communities, including

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