Notes on architecture, neighborhoods, and the Los Angeles market — from the Marlowe Hale studio.
Sep 16, 2025 · Camille Okafor
On the flat blocks below the hill, a stock of low, horizontal mid-century houses keeps making the same quiet argument: that a single story, well sited to the light, is a more generous way to live than its price suggests.
Aug 12, 2025 · Daniel Reyes
A period house should feel furnished for a life, not dressed for a film. Field notes on staging a mid-century, Spanish, or Craftsman home so the architecture leads and the era is honored without being embalmed.
Apr 15, 2025 · Elliot Nakamura
The spring season has opened in no particular hurry, and that is its strength. A note on a deliberate market and the discipline it rewards.
Oct 15, 2024 · Elliot Nakamura
As the year turns toward its close, the lesson of 2024 comes into focus: distinction held its ground while the ordinary drifted. A note on the fall window.
Jun 24, 2025 · Sofia Marchetti
A view is the most expensive thing a Hollywood Hills house can offer and the least understood. A clear-eyed guide to what the premium actually buys, and how to buy it soundly.
Jun 10, 2025 · Eleanor Marlowe
How to read a genuine Spanish Colonial Revival house — the tile, plaster, ironwork, and courtyards — and tell it from the stucco-and-arches imitation that borrows its silhouette.
Jan 21, 2025 · Elliot Nakamura
A note on the year opening — what we expect to carry forward, and why the question for 2025 is preparation rather than prediction.
Mar 18, 2025 · Sara Hale
A neighborhood of two minds — stately period estates on the flats below, modernist view houses climbing into Griffith Park above. A field guide to reading both, on foot.
Feb 18, 2025 · Eleanor Marlowe
A documented architect changes what a house means and what it is worth. How provenance is established, what counts as proof, and what does not.
May 13, 2025 · Nina Bauer
A single room is not one room. It is a dozen rooms the day keeps making and unmaking, and the only way to know it is to stay and watch the light move.
Jul 15, 2025 · Elliot Nakamura
At the halfway mark, the year has done what we hoped and little we feared. A midyear stock-taking of what has held and what the second half asks.
Nov 19, 2024 · Camille Okafor
No cars, no driveways — front doors opening onto a shared garden path, and the light coming off the water. A reading of Venice’s walk streets and the houses that line them.