
South Bay Digs • May 8, 2015
ON THE COVER The Island in the South Bay:Communal spaces, peaceful surroundings and super-sized dimensions create a perfect habitat for today’s family presented by Brett Zebrowski of Palm Realty Boutique.
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ON THE COVER The Island in the South Bay:Communal spaces, peaceful surroundings and super-sized dimensions create a perfect habitat for today’s family presented by Brett Zebrowski of Palm Realty Boutique.


Decorative-art titan Tony Duquette was an unabashed maximalist who applied his from-the-gut touch to everything from rapturous interiors for billionaire clients such as Doris Duke, J. Paul Getty, and David O. Selznick, to bold jewelry, to museum exhibitions at the likes of the Louvre.

In 1958, Douglas Maupin moved to the South Bay with his family. Twenty years later, he began selling residential properties in the area. South Bay DIGS chats with this easygoing surfer about his decades-long adventures in local real estate and land development.

Steeped in culture and class, Santa Fe promises Southwest sojourners a sophisticated weekend away.



Los Angeles native Michael Hiatt comes from a family deeply entrenched in the city’s growth and development—he appreciates not only the history of the city’s past, but the possibilities and potential of its future.

For anyone with a passion for real estate, we believe there’s a mutual obsession for all things real estate-related like architecture, landscaping, community, culture, and, of course, interior design.

ON THE COVER Modern Making: A Pierre Koenig original—carefully revised for the 21st century—creates a private utopia atop the ocean presented by Crosby Doe of Crosby Doe Associates and Gerard Bisignano of Vista Sotheby’s International Realty.

With inspiration for both the kitchen and bath—plus, a seed of the same for the garden—the season is blooming with books!

It’s not every day that an opportunity to take a private art lesson from an instructor with bona fide bloodlines to famed French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir presents itself.