Directed by Steven Klein
September 2021
The project, in Los Angeles, is a 4 hectares property area. The main villa is a new construction of 4200 square meter. First step has been architecture and design of the 510 square meter guest house.
The concept evocates a dialogue between Versailles and an unique and eccentric style.
The guest house has become a stage theater as a dreamlike interior design.
A year into the pandemic, it is a cliché to point out how important house has become.
The smallness of our present worlds has lost its novelty, and rooms that may at first have felt like sanctuaries have become, at times, a big stifling.
It was in this mind that T Magazine asked us Massimiliano Locatelli of Locatelli Partners and to the architects Vincent Van Duysen and Toshiko Mori to each design a paper house that could speak to their vision for a post pandemic architecture