Architectural Record 2015-04
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SHULMAN HOME & STUDIO LOS ANGELES RAPHAEL SORIANO/LORCAN O’HERLIHY ARCHITECTS 115<br />
The indoor-outdoor lifestyle that<br />
Shulman’s photos famously portrayed<br />
was essential to his own home, but he<br />
wanted transitional zones—screened-in<br />
patios—between the interior and great<br />
outdoors, with its insects, lizards,<br />
raccoons, and coyotes. Soriano, by all<br />
accounts, strongly opposed those veiled<br />
volumes, certain they would obstruct<br />
the house’s crisp lines. But they were<br />
added, McKee believes shortly after the<br />
project’s completion. And though “I<br />
cannot say with absolute certainty,” she<br />
continues, “I am quite sure Soriano was<br />
involved. The patios fit so perfectly and<br />
unobtrusively into the design of the<br />
house. Also, Soriano remained a good<br />
INSIDE JOB Rather than refurbish Soriano’s<br />
fir built-ins (right), LOHA reinterpreted and<br />
redesigned them (below). Shulman’s carpeting<br />
is gone, exposing existing concrete floors,<br />
now resurfaced to a silky finish; the entry<br />
zone’s cork floor tiles previously extended<br />
farther into the living room. The midcentury<br />
grounds (opposite, bottom), later overgrown by<br />
the owner’s “jungle,” were created by Garrett<br />
Eckbo; the recent landscape design is by Mia<br />
Lehrer+Associates (opposite, top).<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY: © IWAN BAAN (BOTTOM AND OPPOSITE, TOP); © J. PAUL GETTY TRUST. JULIUS SHULMAN<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE, RESEARCH LIBRARY AT THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (TOP AND OPPOSITE, BOTTOM)
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