Front Elevation: Art House
Owning an architect-designed home is akin to living in a work of art.
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Enter Marmol Radziner & Associates, an internationally renowned Los Angeles architecture firm specializing in vintage property preservation. “You have to accept that there’s an economic challenge to the process, and because so many of these homes were altered or not maintained well, there’s a great deal of damage and problems created by time and elements,” says managing principal Leo Marmol. “There’s also an emotional challenge to the restoration process. It can be stressful, but where there is struggle to achieve something, there is amazing satisfaction.”; function voidFunc() { } voidFunc();) |
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The firm has renovated Neutra, Schindler, Lautner and Wright homes, and residences designed by Harris, John Chapman and Albert Frey. Restorations have lasted from less than one year up to five years. Restoring these masterful designs to current building codes without altering the look of the final product adds to the challenge.
Highly respected for investing “greater academic rigueur” in its extensive research for each renovation—from studying the architect’s original drawings to the furnishings and materials, many of which are no longer available—the firm goes to great lengths to ensure authenticity. One example includes the corrugated sheet metal favored by Neutra, which Marmol Radziner reproduced for a project.
Jan Horn, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate,
310.777.6200, www.janhorn.com, www.coldwellbanker.com
Martie Lieberman, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate,
941.724.1118, www.modernsarasota.com, www.floridamoves.com
Richard Stanley, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate
323.906.2417, www.richardstanleyrealtor.com, www.coldwellbanker.com
Douglas Newby, Douglas Newby & Associates
214.522.1000, www.significanthomes.com
Jolynne Ash, DreamStreet Real Estate
888.475.4040, www.jolynne.com
Scott Jarson, Jarson & Jarson,
480.425.9300, www.azarchitecture.com
Marmol Radziner & Associates,
310.826.6222
Mike Deasy, Mossler Deasy & Doe, 310.275.2222,
www.architectureforsale.com
Brian Linder, Mossler Deasy & Doe, 800.684.8862,
www.thevalueofarchitecture.com
Bill Kirk, Sotheby’s International Realty, 561.659.3555,
www.palmbeach.sothebysrealty.com
Susan Blabey, William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty
888.252.7488, www.williampittsir.com
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