A Case Study Architect’s Ultimate Modernist Sample Gets Remastered by a DJ

Edward Killingworth’s 1957 Opdahl House in Long Beach, California, had fallen into ruin when a musician with a passion for midcentury design made it his mission to revive it.
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This story was originally published in Dwell’s July/August 2007 issue.

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Sam Grawe
Sam Grawe served as the Editor-in-Chief of Dwell from 2006 to 2011.

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