
Cummings Estate
The oldest estate in east Los Angeles was crumbling– a Grey Gardens mansion that wreaked of granny and disrepair. Relevance was achieved by painstakingly lightening yellowed paneling, restamping plaster moldings to reveal new openings, restoring the original window configuration to the front of house, and intervening dramatically with additions that test the limits of materials science to the back of house. The four story stair is an aria, and the diva a floating, muraled coiling case that reveals a reinvented sky level studio which floods all stories with sunlight from a dramatic picture dormer.
The result: an estate that intimidates and tickles at the same time.
location
Los Angeles, CA
type
Residential
chet team
- Chet Callahan
- interior designGhislaine Vinas
- landscape designerElysian Landscapes
- general contractor Mark Drexler + Assoc.
- structural engineerTY Engineering
- photographyMinh Tran, Garrett Rowland, Trevor Tondro
An estate that intimidates and tickles at the same time.