Sweetly Inspired by Art

If food should be fun then dessert should be delightful. Here are some examples of desserts inspired by fine art. We love how creative and beautiful these sweet little indulgences are, how they transform art into an experience to remember.

Piet Mondrian
Salvador Dali
Alejandro Cartagena

John Zurier

Diane Arbus Exhibit :: Opens 3.28

Two-wheelers for deasy/penner's Venice Pod

deasy/penner is excited to announce the first (of several) new dpp-green bikes -- from Venice-based Linus -- for our new Venice pod at 308 Westminster Ave.  The bikes are available to enjoy the neighborhood and look for your new home. If you would like to borrow one of them, just swing by.

George walked to work today

Studio 9 One 2 Architecture :: Patrick Killen, AIA, Architect

Home As Art Pick

High above County Line, with spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean and the Boney Ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains, the award-winning architect’s new Modern home is replete with the amenities of a 5-star resort. 

Behind the private gate and up the winding drive, surrounded by 3.8 pristine acres with dozens of hundred-year-old Live Oaks and specimen fruit trees, this estate is a world away from the cares of the city. Here the designer has nestled a cluster of interconnected orthogonal volumes, reconciling contemporary aesthetic standards with the ancient art of placement. 

Outside, the magical sound of running water permeates the air, as waterfalls cascade from spa to pool to infinity edge at the end of a 2-lane junior Olympic saltwater pool. A dramatic steel and glass stair forms the spine of the home, both functional and sculptural. Kitchen, dining and living rooms connect in open plan, and Fleetwood sliding glass doors expand the indoor/outdoor lifestyle to adjacent decks and balconies. Glass walls and tall ceilings embrace the views, allowing natural light and ocean breezes to pervade throughout. 

No expense has been spared on finishes: porcelain tile and wide plank white oak floors, book-matched walnut cabinets, exotic Macauba granite countertops, redwood decking, professional-grade stainless steel appliances and fixtures by Hansgrohe and Philippe Starck. The state-of-the-art home theatre sets a new standard for creature comfort, visual acuity and acoustical performance – featuring Steward screen and Moniter PL-300 sound. 

Completing the compound, a separate 2-story outbuilding is well suited for multiple purposes: guest house, yoga studio, art gallery or home office. 4 BD, 3 BA, 3,400 SF plus 800 SF Guest House.

12530 Stagecoach Road, Malibu

for sale $2,495,000

contact us to request a showing : : 310.275.1000

presented by Scott King & Brian Linder, AIA : : deasy/penner&partners

The Right Time and Place to Buy

By LISA PREVOST

Published in The New York Times: March 7, 2013

As both mortgage rates and housing prices head higher, home buyers may be wondering whether they ought to settle for whatever property they can get now, rather than risk paying more later.

The answer depends on where you’re buying. Interest rates aren’t expected to rise much this year, but the same cannot be said for prices.

Economists in recent interviews agreed that the rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was unlikely to rise much above 4 percent this year. House prices, however, are rising nearly everywhere, and nowhere as rapidly as in the Sunbelt states.

March 11-15: Old Pasadena Old Pasadena Happy Hour Week

 Ends March 24th: Catherine Opie: In & Around L.A.

 Saturday, March 16th: LA Festival of Colors 11am-8pm Norwalk, CA

 

 Saturday, March 16th: Secrets of Old Pasadena Scavenger Hunt 

Sunday, March 17th: Downtown St. Patrick's Day Festival

Starts March 14th-April 4th: Peel's Grilled Cheese Nights

Christopher Payne, Architect :: Home and Studio

 

Home As Art Pick

Architect’s own residence. Functionalism transcends the box in this suave exploration of contemporary modernism on a street-to-street double-lot with sweeping views, pool and a separate loft-like concrete & glass studio. Mirroring the distant crest of the high San Gabriels, Payne’s design exploits both the gentle horizontal curve of Ronda Vista Place & dramatic verticality in the cliff-like forms presented to the down-slope garden and pool. Within, distant vistas and high-ceilinged space are bent and refracted, as if natural crystalline forms had grown and merged into a sequence determined by geologic, natural geometries. Ceilings covered with

faceted, origami-like plywood continue the quartz-formation effect and give the sunken living room, dining room and kitchen a playful and pleasing complexity, as well as give warm contrast to smoothly continuous terrazzo floors. Upstairs, family living quarters enjoy substantial separation and dazzling views, as well as ample all-day sun. Rarely does such restrained use of modern materials seem so rich and sheltering.

Residence includes: 4 bedrooms, 4 baths + studio and bath with separate Lyric Avenue entrance & 2-car garage. Additional 1-car garage accesses kitchen off Ronda Vista Place. 

Selected for the 2008 AIA Home Tour.

3813 Ronda Vista Place, Los Feliz

for sale $2,299,000

contact us to request a showing : : 310.275.1000