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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
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Photography: Cameron Carothers
Japanese elements combine with industrial proportions at this Venice property, designed in the 1980s by beloved architect, filmmaker and designer David Ming-Li Lowe as an experimental live/work compound for creatives.
The compound is a glowing lightbox, located three blocks from Venice Beach and comprising two mirrored, three-storey buildings set around a secluded courtyard. Ming-Li Lowe cleverly used translucent Kalwall building panels to guarantee privacy from outside that recall Japanese shoji screens and drenching interiors in soft milky light.
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Business and workshop spaces face the street while living areas are behind. The Los Angeles property has recently undergone a refurbishment, upgrading its middle-level kitchen and bathrooms. The bedrooms occupy the towers’ top floors and are connected by a hardwood deck suspended above the courtyard below.
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Interiors celebrate the materiality of the space and the heritage of Californian modernism with steel beams and cross-bracing on show throughout the interiors and hardwood floors.
The Venice artist compound is asking for $4.45m – The Value of Architecture has the listing.
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