Homes of the Times: The latest in Southern California design
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Although most of us know about architect John Lautner through iconic works such as the circular Chemosphere house or the Silvertop estate, his first official commission in Los Angeles was a modest 600-square-foot guesthouse, a refuge that has the peaceful feeling of a cabin with warm wood floors and paneling, and floor-to-ceiling glass windows overlooking an Echo Park canyon.
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When Vanessa Choy and Andrew Wong closed their architecture practice in Hong Kong and moved to Los Angeles, they bought a Studio City lot and made plans for a traditional house with a progressive spin.
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Drawn by the 2-acre landscape, Katrina Rivers bought the nondescript house and made it into an offbeat, bohemian, only-in-L.A. retreat.
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Please don’t call it split-level. It’s a split plane house.
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The Maltman Bungalows in Silver Lake represent that rare Southern California combination: small houses, good location, not-so-outrageous prices.
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Janna Levenstein’s 1950s home was a maze of small, dark rooms.
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Architects Alice Fung and Michael Blatt help homeowners make the most of a 1963 Gregory Ain design.
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Victoria Gilbert wanted to transform her cramped, claustrophobic rooms into a home with a more contemporary look and flow.
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Spare and simple is the rule in the oceanfront home of Arnoldi and his wife, Katie, a novelist.
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The painter, collector and now filmmaker sets up his own bit of bohemia in a Los Angeles guest house.
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With Southern hospitality and an artist’s eye, this gracious hosts sets the scene for an entertaining evening of good cheer, alfresco.
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The midcentury architect’s house in the Hollywood Hills had been written off by preservationists after one resident added a second story and other features ill-suited for the 1956 design.
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Architect Barbara Bestor builds a cool, clever house in Los Feliz with a nod to the landmark across the street: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House.
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Architect Dan Gallagher’s design for his brother, Tim, stands like a series of stacked boxes sheathed in glass, cement board and corrugated metal.
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Jerome Dahan, founder of Citizens of Humanity, shares a 1927 Santa Monica house with Lela Tillem, Citizens’ head of sales.
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Though some may see Steven Sharpe’s house as urban in nature, architect Zoltan Pali says the structure fundamentally is a country house responding to its setting.
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William Krisel, 83, never won as much acclaim as Richard Neutra, Albert Frey or others who defined mid-century modernism in Palm Springs.
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Designers Karen and Guy Vidal turned a dreary Spanish-style four-plex into a color-splashed bachelor’s pad.
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In a fire-prone canyon of the Angeles National Forest, architect Russell K.
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Keyshawn Johnson, the former football star at USC and now wide receiver with the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, worked with Idea Space Design to create a modern, uncluttered penthouse on the Wilshire corridor.
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Architectural designer Tim Campbell turns a tough hillside site into a showcase for his art collection.
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The traffic out front can be terrible and the stream in back posed even more problems.
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When John and Eva Simpson remodeled their 1920s home in San Marino, they sought a Spanish style with some personal twists.
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A 2003 Home article followed art gallery owner Laurie Frank as she hosted one of her renowned dinner parties at her Whitley Heights home.
