There\u2019s a secret behind certain houses in Pacific Palisades: the kind of heartstopping ocean views that make all the adjacent palm trees, pools and velveteen lawns seem to fade to grey. One such Pacific Palisades\u00a0house, a riff on a Norman-style villa, has a sober limestone fa\u00e7ade beneath a pitched metal...
A couple’s Pacific Palisades house, by Johnston Marklee and Studio Shamshiri, puts their art collection in the best light
Designed by Johnston Marklee, the bow-shaped house features a limestone façade and a pitched metal roof There’s a secret behind certain houses in Pacific Palisades: the kind of heartstopping ocean views that make all the adjacent palm trees, pools and velveteen lawns seem to fade to grey. One such Pacific Palisades house, a riff on a Norman-style villa, has a sober limestone façade beneath a pitched metal roof, and it raises few eyebrows from the street. It’s a new build by Johnston Marklee, the celebrated LA firm founded in 1998 by architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee.
They had met the architecture studio through the Menil Collection, where Casademont is a trustee. And once they shared their brief – a relaxed second home for family, a place for art and antiques – the architects suggested the couple look up their friend Pamela Shamshiri, of the LA-based
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