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Matt Damon’s SoCal Dreamscape 1401 San Remo Drive in Pacific Palisades

ByWendy Bowman
February 18, 2021

1401 San Remo Drive is the perfect spot for a staycation in Pacific Palisade. A retreat that was built and masterfully designed for actor, writer, and producer Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso, by Grant Kirkpatrick of Los Angeles-based KAA Design in 2004.

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Design Ideas While Home for the Holidays

ByJenn Thornton
November 11, 2020

From city lights chic with KAA Design Group, Hudson + Bloum Design’s modern mountain home to Grey Dove Design’s wintery white—the atmosphere is festive with design styles this season.

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Caroline Burke—Flexibility, Practicality & Classic Beauty

ByConstance Dunn
July 14, 2020

“If you watch little children, and see what they’re doing at a very young age,” says designer Caroline…

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KAA Design Takes on Infinity Pools & Spas Along The Strand

ByJenn Thornton
November 16, 2020

KAA Design rethinks a mainstay of local outdoor living for a contemporarily conceived oceanfront abode on The Strand…

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KAA Design and the Monaco Drive Gym

ByJenn Thornton
November 16, 2020

An Exercise in Ingenuity KAA Design flexed its architectural muscle designing the Monaco Drive Gym, with an unexpected…

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Urban Collection—1601 and 1613 Lincoln Blvd.

ByWendy Bowman
January 7, 2021

When developers first laid eyes on the parcel of land where they hoped to build a new luxury, mixed-use rental community, the downtown Santa Monica site was dotted with outdated fast-food joints and an antique mall. Parking also was difficult, as cars entering and leaving disrupted traffic flow.

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KAA Design’s Duan Tran Discusses Tower Grove Drive

ByJenn Thornton
November 16, 2020

From Tower Grove Drive, looking out from a wonderfully designed home whose precipice is a hillside in the southern Santa Monica Mountains, the view is truly grand—a sweep that extends dramatically past Los Angeles to the Pacific.