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The Room That Answers Back at Bob Mackie's Beverly Hills House

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Guests arriving at designer Bob Mackie's Beverly Hills home came primed for spectacle, the sequins and showroom shine of his stage work. In a 1989 tour of the house, Mackie described their reaction on walking in and finding something else entirely — a single, quiet "Oh." The house, it turns out, was the twist.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.

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