Placemaking is of foremost importance to Dorte Mandrup, the founder and creative director of Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup A/S and Monocle’s architect of the year. Her repertoire of highly contextual works includes a growing number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
When the pandemic hit in 2020 and the real estate industry scrambled, Cindy Ambuehl coolly closed over $200 million—her office’s best year yet. Last year was more of the same, with over $300 million of sales. And the trajectory continues in 2022.
Spread over 3,074 square feet of an entire floor, residence 3 and 4 of 401 Ocean Avenue each have three bedrooms, four bathrooms and a private two-car garage.
ON THE COVER Jewel of The Strand: An exquisite fashioned Manhattan Beach property by architect Grant Kirkpatrick of KAA Design offers a hub of contemporary living and a design to last forever presented by Bryn Stroyke of Stroyke Properties and Bayside Real Estate Partners.
After living for two decades in a relatively small house in Palo Alto, California—where they raised their four now-grown-up children—the owners of this home jumped at the chance to expand their property by purchasing the adjacent lot.
Marketing pundits like to debate what constitutes the proper balance of long-term brand building and short-term “performance marketing” that drive quick sales. But that debate completely missed the point.
With 6 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms, the approximately 8,000-square-foot residence presents a meticulosity fashioned atmosphere that’s crafted around life, in all its texture, at the beach.
Let me introduce you to one of the finest marketing tales ever told about a simple yet successful businessman from the advertising industry – a little gem of a book titled Obvious Adams – The Story of a Successful Businessman.
Journeying from his birthplace of Rome, Italy to Boston, where he was raised and then later on, to Los Angeles to attend college, Marco Rufo figured he would study business and return to the East Coast to build a career.
house reveals itself at the end of a gated, palm-lined drive, offering anything a person could dream up.
