Our client, head of a music recording company, for whom we had designed a couple very modern projects, bought a historic adobe house by John Byers, one of the preeminent architects of Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century.
Dutton Architects relished the challenge of respecting the history and craft of the original, yet through additions and renovations, making it livable for twentieth-century living. The restoration of the original was guided by the consultant that oversees the Getty Trust’s adobe restoration projects.