Outside the Box

April 23, 2009 The year was 1974, and Crosby Doe was a young real estate agent trying to sell his first listing. Ultimately, Doe learned that the feeling of well-being that the Loring house inspired wasn't a coincidence; it was the architect's intention. For those who embrace the notion of seamless indoor-outdoor living, there's arguably no better place to live than Southern California, with its constant sunshine and high concentration of midcentury-modern homes, easily recognizable by their iconic shapes, walls of glass and deliberate orientation in the landscape.

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