Broad flat streets, hundred-year-old trees, and a catalogue of how the 1920s imagined permanence. A field guide to reading the grand revival houses of Hancock Park.

A single-story Mar Vista mid-century modern home

Jul 16, 2024 · Elliot Nakamura

Midyear 2024: Reading Past the Headlines

At the halfway mark, the forecast we offered in spring has largely held. A midyear note on what the season has confirmed and what the second half asks.

A mid-century living room staged by Marlowe Hale

May 21, 2024 · Daniel Reyes

Why Restraint Sells: Notes from the Staging Studio

Good staging is not about filling a room. It is about removing everything that stands between a buyer and the architecture. Field notes on the discipline of less.

A modernist glass-and-steel home in the Hollywood Hills at dusk

Apr 16, 2024 · Elliot Nakamura

The Spring 2024 Market: A Note for Owners

A measured read on where the architectural market stands as spring opens — written for owners who prefer signal to noise.

Silver Lake hillside homes above the reservoir

Mar 19, 2024 · Sara Hale

A Field Guide to Silver Lake's Modernist Hillsides

A reservoir, a generation of restless architects, and a few steep streets that became one of the country’s great open-air museums of modern living. A field guide meant to be read on foot.

A 1958 post-and-beam home at twilight with a hillside pool

Feb 13, 2024 · Eleanor Marlowe

Reading a Post-and-Beam: What Mid-Century Bones Tell You

The grammar of the post-and-beam house is simple, honest, and easy to read once you know what the structure is saying. A short lesson in looking up.

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