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This Silver Lake moderne is positioned on a cul-de-sac to capture views of the sometimes snowcapped San Gabriel mountains and the Silver Lake Reservoir from almost every room. Artist Alex Prager purchased the property as a fixer. Collaborating with the award-winning firm Escher GuneWardena Architecture—who has an impressive roster of work that includes restoring the Eames House, Richard Neutra ’s Loring House, and John Lautner’s Chemosphere—she turned a once lackluster structure into an exemplar of clean lines paired with clever use of space. She says , “I’ve been living in and making work out of for seven years.” Similar to her work, her home has a cinematic essence.  The two-bedroom, three-bathroom dwelling opens to a short flight of stairs with built-in storage underneath, leading to a single-story rectangular layout filled with natural light filtering through walls of glass, revealing stunning unobstructed views of the lake and mountains. Bespoke white oak fl...

Studio Hus, founded by Tatum Kendrick, overhauled a dated traditional-style home in Los Feliz , creating a stylish modern residence with character and verve. Kendrick approaches each renovation “With the vision of an artist and a mind of an architect, she layers projects with equal measure function and form, pulling inspiration from fashion, art and historical architecture .” Starting with the exterior, the home’s former beige wood siding and flagstone accents were replaced with creamy white brick, and dormers were reworked to simplify the facade and make room for a dramatic double-height entry. Inside, the five-bedroom 3,167-square-foot house opens to a Belgian-inspired interior. The entrance hall leads to an open kitchen/dining and living room with sliding doors opening to the travertine paved patio with a heated lounge pool and garden.  The fireplace in the living room, once flanked by built-in bookshelves and a dated wood surround were replaced with smooth white ...

Decades after completion, Silver Lake ’s landmark Avenel Cooperative Housing Project is still an “outstanding example of the potential for well-designed, affordable urban housing in very small spaces.” Designed by modernist architect Gregory Ain, the 1947 complex stands on a quiet, residential street, just up from Blair’s restaurant and a block from Ivanhoe Elementary School. Curbside, a vintage Metropolitan Nash, adds to the building’s nostalgia while mature trees soften its horizontal lines. Arranged in two staggered rows, units were built on the lower and upper portions of the site. This unit sits on the upper part. The front door opens to a light-filled flexible space adhering to Ain’s original floor plan, where sliding partition walls allow the space to be used as a one, two, or three-bedroom home. KCRW writes , “The houses were designed to fit families of four and proved so flexible that the residents stayed decades, with the last of the original couples, Carl and ...