It doesn’t take lengthy to understand that the driving aesthetic behind this newly revamped 6,500-square-foot Beverly Hills residence is the dramatic views of the Santa Monica Mountains, which encompass it. It’s clear exterior, as one passes by a classic silver Porsche Carrera, in addition to inside, the place floor-to-ceiling home windows seem as incessantly as head-turning artworks.

“The shoppers are passionate collectors of artwork and design objects…so we knew their assortment wanted to play a important position,” David Lucas, artistic director at Seattle-based inside structure and design studio Lucas, says of his shoppers—a New York couple who moved to Los Angeles to be nearer to their grandchildren.

“The aim from the start was to create a real heat to the house’s measurement and scale,” provides Suzie Lucas, David’s sister, in addition to the agency’s cofounder and principal designer. (Their different sister, Rachel Lucas, joined the household enterprise later and now serves as operations director.) “That’s at all times a problem with an area like this, however significantly when you could have a consumer with such an considerable collection of art work and furnishings.”

The house is situated within the Los Angeles neighborhood of Trousdale, a group of upscale dwellings perched on the highest level of Beverly Hills that’s wealthy in midcentury-modernist historical past. The unique growth, generally known as Trousdale Estates, dates again to the Nineteen Fifties when celebrities, together with Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, constructed customized houses there.

Although there was an current home on the location, which was constructed in 1967, the Lucas design workforce determined to forego a transform and as an alternative rebuild all the construction from scratch. “The view on this web site is attractive,” David says. “However the house was fully outdated.” A whole overhaul meant that no architectural element was too massive or small for what ultimately grew to become a two-bedroom, four-bathroom residence. Ceilings had been raised, combed limestone partitions had been added, and an infinity pool was put in to go proper as much as the lounge window. “The shoppers took an enormous leap of religion with this one,” David says of the pool. “However they realized that it could elevate all the challenge.”

The lounge underscores the designer’s bespoke strategy, which translated into wealthy materiality. A flame-sprayed nickel wall was put in to run from the outside to the inside of the lounge the place a curved Vladimir Kagan couch, Ado Chale espresso desk, and lounge chairs from Ralph Pucci sit atop a customized wool and silk rug from Fedora Design.

And maybe not surprisingly, a variety of the artworks had been commissioned, together with a bit by American artist and designer David Wiseman. The artist created a light-weight sculpture that hangs above a sunken TV lounge in the lounge. “The bushes on the property grew to become the inspiration for the sculpture,” David Lucas says. Wiseman casted acorns from the tree and used them as a element within the sculpture, which permits the branches to have the size and proportion of the prevailing forestry. “One of the magical lighting moments occurs with the sculpture at night time,” the inside designer provides. “It’s as in case you are sitting below the department of a tree strung with twinkling lights. It’s breathtaking.”