Glendale
Residence

The house was 1920s Spanish — the kind Glendale built when Glendale was still being invented. Vaulted ceilings. Hand-troweled plaster. Ironwork someone made by hand, on a Tuesday, almost a hundred years ago. The studio was brought on alongside Marcus Pierce Collective to bring the interiors back, with no idea yet how long that would take.

Three years, as it turned out. The architecture wanted to be honored, not corrected. Original tile preserved. Paneling exposed. Heavy beams left alone. The first decisions on the project were almost all subtractive — finding the bones, then living with them for long enough to know what they wanted next to them.

The sourcing reached further than usual for this house. A console from a dealer in Lyon. Textiles from a co-op in Oaxaca. A pair of paintings from a Provençal village we’d been waiting two years to visit. The result is a house that had once been quiet and reserved — now warm, characterful, layered, and a little whimsical. Not corrected. Reawakened.