Consisting of eight designs in varied colors and custom shapes, Surreal Shifts, Kelly Wearstler’s ninth collaboration with The Rug Company, is no exception to her approach.
The front residence has already been sold, but the rear residence—1602 Loma Drive at approximately 2,968 square feet, with 4 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms—is available.
ON THE COVER A sunlit walk street home in Manhattan Beach—created by award-winning Abramson Architects—delivers architectural precision and material opulence wrapped in panoramic coastal views presented by Lauren Forbes of the Lauren Forbes Group at Compass.
With five bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a gym, media lounge, temperature-controlled wine wall, beach-ready wellness center with an outdoor shower, in-ground spa, and direct access powder bath and Nordic sauna, 66 Emerald Bay is a contemporary masterpiece.
A showpiece on stilts in Sherman Oaks, 3707 Oakfield Drive is a house of considerable architectural stock, a Platform House originally designed by Austrian-American modernist Richard Neutra, who was especially prolific in Los Angeles.
A weighty question indeed. But, let me ask it again, because it may be the missing ingredient in whatever it is that you’re trying to accomplish in your life. Are you doing what you’re doing for “applause” or “purpose?”
312 17th Street set on a smoothly ascending hillside dotted with luxe landscaped residences, the higher you climb, the more generous are the swaths of the Pacific Ocean that are revealed.
ON THE COVER In Paradise Valley, Arizona, this 5,600-square-foot house, aptly named Dancing Light, celebrates nature through its striking contemporary architecture. This property, which comprises a dwelling and a guesthouse, perfectly embodies this philosophy presented by Kendle Design Collaborative.
ON THE COVER This newly built 6 bedroom residence in the Via Bluffs neighborhood of Pacific Palisades incorporates exquisite treehouse views of the Santa Monica Mountains and Potrero Canyon Park into its sleek, modern interior presented by Sarah Knauer of The Agency & Andreas Elsenhans of Westside Estate Agency.
With its minimalist rectilinear form clad in charred shou sugi ban rain screen siding, the house by Annie Barrett & Hye-Young Chung contrasts with the San Pedro cacti and other kinds of vegetation that welcome the inhabitants and their visitors.
That these clean-angled constructions are strenuously minimalist makes them more interesting and dynamic than one expects to find in a gated community. Robustly walled, but not walled off from the world, Abraham Cota Paredes’ Natura House is a bold rethink of privacy.
Isla del Rey in Menorca, Spain, a decommissioned naval hospital established by the English in 1711 is now a contemporary art center for Hauser & Wirth with gleaming-white galleries, artfully drawn gardens, a nautically touched restaurant and a craft-filled gallery shop.
