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Victoria Residence for a creative couple
who share deep roots in the arts and were
looking to create an inspired compound of
their own," the studio says of the project,
which Lambur and Bartholomew worked
on with Project Manager Taylor Manley
as well as landscape designer Terremoto
and builder Gaia Construction. "When the
site was selected within the busy neigh-
borhood, we designed the property with
an inward focus, surrounding a courtyard,
where the home's interior and exterior
spaces merge."
Located behind crisp stucco walls,
the residence unfolds in clean-lined,
sharp-cornered volumes that open
magnanimously to Terremoto's attractively
imagined landscape of native plantings,
gravel paths, a sleek natural-stone fire-
enice Beach draws much
of its vibrant character from
the creatives who flock to
its exuberant and frequently
eclectic flame. Now in a kind of
late-stage bohemia, the enclave's artistic
adventurism has nonetheless influenced
its diverse architecture—an interesting
mix including 20th century Craftsman
bungalows, Mediterranean Revivals,
industrial beach abodes and more. Into
these dynamic constructive waters wades
the Victoria Residence, a linear work of
residential architecture by LA design
studio Electric Bowery, led by co-founders
and principals Cayley Lambur and Lucia
Bartholomew.
A creative retreat within a high-energy
urban context, the project—a contempo-
rary take on a hacienda-style home—is
stunningly assembled with the moody
tones and quiet composure of a modern
Still Life. "Electric Bowery designed the
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