For furnishings designer Reza Feiz and his spouse, tv producer Sheila Griffiths, shifting to a much bigger home had been within the playing cards for over a decade: “As the youngsters grew, their buddies grew, their assortment of devices grew, we realized we would have liked a spot the place we may unfold out a bit,” says Feiz, the founding father of Part Design, a Los Angeles–based mostly studio that focuses on artisan-crafted furnishings and objects. Thoughts you, the couple wasn’t eager on shifting simply wherever. They particularly had their sights set on Fryman Canyon, a verdant hillside group in Studio Metropolis, Los Angeles, which they’d grown to like, having visited a number of instances over time to tour this home or that. Its largely undiscovered standing, to not point out its proximity to West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, made it very best for the household.
In fact, with so few properties available on the market, discovering one which checked all their bins, or any in any respect, was simpler mentioned than accomplished. When one did come alongside, it checked none. Not that Feiz and Griffiths have been significantly fazed. As they noticed it, it was a diamond within the tough, they usually have been so taken with the bucolic locale that they made a proposal anyway, committing to revamp the inside if it was accepted.
The couple stood by their phrase. No sooner had they signed the deed for the Nineteen Sixties residence than Feiz conjured up a imaginative and prescient board. Their earlier abode, a beautiful midcentury ranch, served because the muse for this one, although the couple launched a bevy of useful interventions to make sure that this residence served their present wants. They stored the design language equal elements sensible and poetic, espousing an ethos of power in simplicity, and deciding on items which are visually inspiring however by no means too valuable. “I needed to rethink what was essential when our wheaten terrier, Kassi, took all of two minutes to determine that our Gaetano Pesce Fiftieth-anniversary-edition Up Chair was her favourite touchdown spot. Can’t fault her for good style!” jokes the Iranian-born designer, who collaborated with Hunter Fleetwood and Mariapaz Fernandez of Fleetwood Fernandez Architects for the inside structure, and panorama specialist Paul Robbins and bonsai artist Robert Pressler for the panorama design.
Feiz gave his personal designs equal delight of place, deeming the home a testing floor for prototypes to come back and go. He designated a lamp mock-up right here, a special-edition stool there, a desk experiment within the media room, a not-yet-launched bench by the entrance door. Marrying outdated and new, he fashioned an ensemble of little moments that maintain a mirror to his two-decade-long profession in design. As he places it, “I didn’t need the home to be a Part showroom, however how are you going to be assured in your work in the event you don’t use it your self?” Nonetheless, in doing so, he exercised tactful restraint, sustaining damaging area between sculptural objects to create respiratory room for folks and issues alike. He additionally stored the cocoon intentionally mild, calming the ground with whitewashed pure oak, and the partitions internally with pure clay and externally with easy stucco, in a means that makes you marvel the place the outside ends and the indoors begins.
The kitchen, Feiz reveals, is a household favourite. “We’re a sheekamoo bunch,” he muses—utilizing the Farsi phrase for “foodie”—“so that you’ll all the time discover us hanging out across the island, with a Sabzi polo [a Persian dish made with herbed Basmati rice], or some pan-seared salmon, or cups brimful of my world-renowned formulation of saffron-infused milk with espresso.” After they have company, they graduate from the island to the eating desk, whose eight chairs, Feiz says, are by no means sufficient. “Fortunately we have now a slew of Part low-stool prototypes scattered all through the home, and in these moments, all of them discover their means across the desk to accommodate an intimate eating expertise!”
When the company are gone and the youngsters have known as it an evening, Feiz and Griffiths wish to savor the silence upstairs within the household lounge, with a spherical or two of tea. “In these quiet interludes, we regularly ponder how, regardless of the decade-long wait, the celebrities finally aligned,” Feiz considers. “By luck or dedication, or a little bit of each, the home and gardens landed simply as we had envisioned, a sanctuary to behave because the welcoming backdrop to this subsequent chapter of our lives.”
