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Furniture drawn in the studio and made a mile away, in a workshop we have used for twelve years. Every piece below started as a room that needed something nobody sold.

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Projects a year

Residential, workplace and hospitality work, run by a lead designer who stays with the job from survey to handover.

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Years in practice

Founded in 2008 in a converted garage in Echo Park, with one client and a borrowed plan chest.

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92%
Clients who return

Nearly all our work comes from a past client or from somebody a past client sent us.

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People in the studio

Designers, technical staff and the operations team, all under one roof in Los Angeles.

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Nine things we do, from a single room's color scheme to a building's whole fit-out.

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What the people who live and work in these rooms say afterwards.

We came in asking for a new sofa and left with a plan for the whole ground floor. The studio talked us out of half the things we thought we wanted, and the rooms are better for it. Two years on, nothing looks tired.

Megan Johnson
Homeowner, Silver Lake

Our showroom turns over stock every six weeks, so the fit-out had to take a beating. Three years of daily deliveries later, the millwork still closes properly. That is the part I judge a designer on.

Simons Boji
Director, Boji Home Goods

The drawings were clear enough that our contractor priced the job twice without a single query. I did not know that was possible. It kept the budget honest from the first week to the last.

Hayden Lee
Client, Pasadena Residence

Our Latest Blogs

Notes from the studio: what we are specifying, and why.

Interiors

Color in a North-Facing Room

North light is steady, cool and unflattering to about half the paint colors ever sold. Here is how to choose for it instead of fighting it.

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Materials

Why Your White Paint Looks Wrong

Almost every disappointing paint job is an undertone problem, and almost all of it is preventable with three large samples and a week of patience.

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How-To Guides

Planning a Kitchen Two People Can Actually Cook In

The classic work triangle assumes one cook. If two of you use the kitchen at once, you need overlapping zones, wider clearances and a different plan entirely.

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