The Gamble House

This guide to the Gamble House in Los Angeles opens with a nineteen eighty five film crew using this driveway as the entrance to Doc Brown's garage, then rewinds to nineteen oh seven, when David Gamble, son of a Procter and Gamble founder, hired brothers Charles and Henry Greene to design his winter home down to the doorknobs. It follows the craftsmen who built it, brothers Peter and John Hall, and the arguments over a single curve in a piece of wood that could stretch on for days. Listen for the low, wide eaves and the glow of teak, oak and mahogany that took under a year to build.