Translated, the Chumash word Anacapa means “mirage,” which one might imagine they’ve stumbled across when ambling along the same-named street in the Lunada Bay district of Palos Verdes Estates.
Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman were still undergraduates at the University of Southern California School of Architecture when they started designing tract homes during the post-war housing boom of the late 1940s.
Spanning 8,000 square feet and situated on a 1.1-acre lot along a leafy cul-de-sac, the five-bedroom project resulted from three years of meticulous engineering and building
“I wanted to create something that felt like a cinematic space,” says producer Jason Forest of the four-level property tucked along a tree-lined stretch of Cabrillo Avenue, where charmed Venice Beach bungalows mingle with modern homes like this one.
A British West Indies-style home, a French farmhouse and this freshly complete, Cape Cod-inspired beach residence, approximately 5,800 square feet with six bedrooms, designed by well-known South Bay architect Louis Tomaro.
A roomy Coastal Plantation home in the heart of the Tree Section delivers of-the-moment amenities along with elegance and fresh-air living.
John Hathorn, Westside property specialist and co-founder of Pence Hathorn Silver who, working with architect Peter Schechter and developer Steve Danziger, has designed a new property to serve today’s ideal of premium living, from top to bottom.
White Sands Design and Build crafts a traditional home with a perfect balance of au courant coastal elements.
Located on a walk street, a new, contemporary Hermosa home maximizes ocean views and the most stylish of seaside living.
For the owners of this sunny modern farmhouse, discovering their family’s new home last year was simple, but the goal was a bit more complicated: finding a place in Palos Verdes closer to where the children attended school. This condition upped the stakes for a search that did not prove insurmountable.
In the middle of last century, Ernest Hahn saw the future and it was shopping centers. The doors opened on his first project in 1965, and from then on, Ernest Hahn rode a cresting wave, designing shopping malls and retail centers in 18 states.
After moving to the Emerald Island in the mid-1980s in pursuit of good waves, he took note of the island’s superb growing conditions and set up an organic farm on a 50-acre tract of land minutes from his office at Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers.
