Art: © Wade Guyton/Matthew Marks Gallery. Vintage Ettore Sottsass floor lamp and Kwangho Lee hanging light sculpture. Stools by Michael Taylor, Katie Stout, and Tanya Aguiñiga surround a Dan Johnson table in the ceramics gallery, which features works by Beatrice Wood, Andrea Zittel, Alex Reed, and others, all arranged on a custom display unit by Waka Waka. The focus is always on livability-creating rooms where we can live comfortably and graciously with great things.” “But we didn’t want a decorative arts museum. I’ve been buying furniture since I was 16 years old, like a crazy person,” Furth adds. “The house incorporates things we came to the relationship with, things we’ve acquired together, and things we commissioned specifically for this project. We’re trying to stimulate dialogues between the artists, makers, and objects that we love and champion,” says Yashar, founder of the LA-based consultancy The Culture Creative.
It’s not a preconceived idea about one particular style or aesthetic. “This house represents the same design conversation we’ve been having since our very first apartment together. In short, there’s an embarrassment of riches. Within a classic 1950s California canyon house perched in the hills above Hollywood, the inveterate collectors have marshaled an astonishing array of objects and materials in ensembles that highlight shared aesthetic genealogies while forging connections among disparate times, places, and styles. Connoisseurs of great design will have a difficult time selecting a favorite vignette among the plethora of sensational moments at the Los Angeles home of AD100 designer Oliver M.
Or maybe it’s the antique Louis XV fauteuil upholstered ever so daintily in the same Sister Parish linen that covers the walls and daybed of the sitting room. Or the rare 1985 Philippe Starck chair-a welcome reminder of the designer’s early, mad genius-poised nonchalantly beneath an unimpeachable Noguchi paper lantern in the primary bedroom. Perhaps it’s the 1960s Jansen Louis XVI–style lyre-back chairs admiring their own comely reflections in the louche-glam 1970s mirrored dining table.
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