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"I've been selling houses for 30 years, and collaborating
with the architect, contractor and developer on this
house has been really exciting: I know we've built a
house everyone will like." Or love, in this case. John
Hathorn, Westside property specialist and co-founder of
Pence Hathorn Silver who, working with architect Peter
Schechter and developer Steve Danziger, has designed a
new property to serve today's ideal of premium living, from
top to bottom. e success of the property is its marriage of
a user-friendly floorplan with the most desirable elements of
Modernist luxury—a grand scale, exquisite finishes and the
proliferation of sunlight and private al fresco spaces.
e exterior is a pleasing arrangement of angular shapes,
along with a flat roof with a modest overhang. Materials
include a fresh mix of white stucco, glass and warm-hued
planks of exotic South American hardwood. A smart touch
is found in the exterior landscaping, a blend of desert and
green, with a checkerboard assortment of pavers and grass to
camouflage the wide driveway. Of note is the size of the lot,
which is larger than usual for this area (over 8,000 square
feet) and makes possible the home's generous footprint of
over 4,500 square feet. "Because we got this built under the
old zoning codes, the rooms are really spacious," Hathorn
points out. "You couldn't duplicate the house under today's
more restrictive codes."
Walk through the front door of the home, and one is ushered
into a comfortable, welcome atmosphere that, owing to
good design, is imperceptible in how it was achieved. "e
architect designed it to maximize all of the available ambient
