The 700 Palms Residence was designed and completed in 2003 by Steven Ehrlich, and is located in Venice, Los Angeles, California. The house expresses a counterpoint between a sense of harmony and tranquility with flowing, dynamic spaces. Flexibility and transformation are fully realized through the use of wood-and-steel frame structure, enclosed and shielded for privacy by a roll-down scrim hung on a skeletal steel frame. By maximizing volume, light and privacy on a narrow lot with sensitivity to scale and context, the design presents raw, honest materials appropriate to the grittiness of the Venice environment. The house dissolves the barriers between indoors and out, creating flexible spaces that take advantage of the benign climate. As sustainability was a major concern, the design integrates concrete flooring to absorb the sun’s warmth in the winter, operable windows and large sliding doors to facilitate natural ventilation and low-maintenance recycled materials.

Today While visiting Gage Clemenceau Architects an architecture and design firm with projects covering a wide range of scales, from a five hundred room Hotel/Resort, to residential, furniture and product design I’ve discovered in their residential projects section two beautiful New York apartments ( Griffin Residence & Residence in SOHO ), that I liked an finally here they are. Simple, modern and with lots of style. The work of the firm is motivated by the premise that architecture transcends the practice of mere building - in favor of a new and vibrant alliance between progressive technologies, new materials, and a renewed interest in architecture as an exceedingly visual and aesthetically driven discipline.

The Berenbein Residence is an extension renovation for a writer/producer made by Callas Shortridge Architects, and is located in the Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles below Mulholland Drive. Now here are a few words about Callas Shortridget Architects design process : “The work of our firm is built upon a serios of oppositions that are meant to set up a dynamic tension: pricavy and exposure, light and shadow, mass and plane. It is a collaborative process, merging our principles of design and construction with spatial solutions to our clients needs and desired.”

This new residence in Kansas City’s Westside neighborhood was both designed and contracted by el dorado principal Jamie Darnell for his family and himself. Elegant and spare, it combines clean lines and durable materials ( concrete, conrrugated copper, glue-laminated timber, chain link fencing and ipe decking ) into a dynamic form that acknowledges the scale of the neighborhood and the energy of the Darnell family. The residence is extremely efficient and well lit and utilizes a Structural Insulated Panel System, which saved labor and material costs during construction, and has resulted in significant energy savings throughout the year and outside noise reduction.

Today residence is designed by Ledbetter Fullerton Architects and is in New Orleans, LA.The owner of this house, an art collection, requested that the interiors be designed to highlight an extraordinary art collection while not feeling like a museum. A palette of neutral colors for fabrics, rugs, curtains, and wood paneling was chosen to create a warm surrounding for the collection of several hundred photographs and paintings. Every attempt was made to combine contemporary furnishings with European antiques in each room, emphasizing that the backdrop for the art is a comfortable home.

Louis XVI armchairs and bergeres and Biedermeier side tables and benches are combined with both custom pieces and modern pieces by the likes of Warren Platne, Mies van de Rohe, Le corbusier, Paul Kjaerholm, Edith Norton, Karl Springer, Florence Knoll, T.H Robsjohn Gibbins, and Christian Liagre.