On a number of lengthy and winding roads off Mulholland Drive, you will see clusters of residential neighbourhoods tucked away between Coldwater and Laurel Canyon, the place architectural marvels could be found and design creativity flows as seamlessly because the hillside views.
Annie Ritz and Daniel Rabin – founders of And And And Studio, an structure and inside design apply in Hollywood – have been fortunate sufficient to buy one in all these hidden gems, sight unseen, and restore it to showcase its mid-century modernist structure bones.
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Discover the Laurel Canyon home of And And And Studio’s founders
It began when, after a pandemic transfer to Toronto for 3 years (the place Rabin is initially from), the duo determined to return to Los Angeles. There, they nonetheless had a flourishing design enterprise – however an essential draw was the couple’s present house.
‘I noticed that view of the mountains and we simply knew, with a view like that, we may make something work,’ says Ritz. That million-dollar view consists of the San Gabriel Mountains and Mulholland Drive, the Hollywood signal and Griffith Park Observatory to the East and Beverly Hills to the West.
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‘This place wanted to be revealed and excavated and located once more,’ says Ritz. ‘It had such nice bones however was shrouded in bamboo with no avenue presence – and the outside was clad in a porcelain travertine tile.’
Now the smooth curb attraction is encased in custom-milled Thermory Kodiak Spruce – a mushy wooden with a thermal modification the place the wooden is steamed for outside use. ‘It’s native and American-made reasonably than FSC licensed from Brazil,’ explains Rabin. The deck can be made with Spruce. ‘It’s a pleasant product by way of a future ecological footprint,’ he says. ‘We had by no means used this wooden earlier than however beloved the environmental and sustainable part,’ he provides Ritz.
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Behind an added Corten metal entry door, the previous design color scheme was black and gray, however the couple sandblasted the ceilings to disclose the unique mid-century timber. This success was repeated with the pure oak flooring and unique working brick fire, which they painted white.
The house is crammed with objects that have been, in lots of circumstances, meant for different initiatives, such because the toffee colored Italian marble island, which is a focus of the open kitchen, eating and front room space. ‘It strikes the suitable word,’ says Ritz. ‘We wished numerous pure supplies.’ Perched up towards the honed and polished stone by Giallo di Sienna are two classic Canadian metal bar stools from the 70s referred to as ‘the paperclip.’
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Whereas they’re busy working their Sycamore space studio with renovations, initially, they didn’t need to tackle such a challenge for themselves. ‘We tried to discover a house that didn’t want the gamut,’ says Rabin. In order that they seemed for a mid-century, post-and-beam house that didn’t want any heavy lifting architecturally.
Opposite to how they might usually work, Ritz and Rabin moved slowly with a way of spontaneity that they don’t at all times have the posh of utilizing with their shoppers. ‘We simply did issues as they resurfaced, ’ says Rabin. ‘And once we felt impressed,’ says Ritz. ‘We love mid-century and it’s simple to play with loosely, like an architectural dig.’
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The story that greatest showcases the duo’s natural design ethos comes from the large-scale lobby portray, which Ritz purchased from a neighbour, Italian artist Sebastiano Ciarcia, after recognizing him portray in his storage. ‘I dropped him a word and he referred to as me,’ recollects Ritz. ‘He carried it up the road with one other neighbour and helped to hold it.’
This enhances two extra work from the Bouroullec Brothers, who additionally made the outside metallic eating desk subsequent to the pizza oven and Satellite tv for pc by Gub lamps hanging in a big shady tree. Different creative wood items embrace objects by Bradley Duncan, which could be discovered within the eating room and bed room.
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The lighting items are additionally standout components. There’s a silver metallic Chiara flooring lamp signed by artist Mario Bellini and a Santa & Cole, Tekio Horizontal Pendant lamp over the {custom} terrazzo desk and Knoll chairs by Marcel Breuer.
The design duo labored with panorama studio Terremoto for the yard design. They have been in a position to seize earth from the sloping floor and former Trex deck to attain their dream outside set-up, which they take pleasure in each day with their two youngsters. The realm features a hearth pit, barrel sauna, cedar soaking tub and a chilly plunge.
Whereas Rabin’s favorite a part of the house is the outside hammock, Ritz is a fan of the couple’s {custom} oak mattress, made by their studio, within the major bed room. The dimension was off, and it ended up too lengthy, in order that they brainstormed an answer of including a built-in bookcase on the foot of the mattress, which grew to become one in all their best-loved items.
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The couple, who met at grad faculty in Toronto, lived in Switzerland and Rotterdam earlier than settling in Los Angeles. They’re at present engaged on a full roster of native residential initiatives, a household compound in Michigan and their first monograph with Chronicle Chroma, slated to publish within the autumn of 2025.
As designers, they’re fluid, overlaying from ground-up new builds to interiors, styling and extra just lately, {custom} furnishings. ‘It’s all the identical from our perspective, ’ says Ritz, ‘It’s all design, simply what scale you’re working with. There are particular lanes, however once we do all of it ourselves, it occurs concurrently and it is sensible.’ That philosophy has labored nicely for his or her present dwelling. In line with Ritz, it has now grow to be ‘a cherished gem.’
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