Architect Jamie Bush remodeled a villa in Los Angeles. Different in color and mood, the rooms organically adopted modern art.
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Venice is not only a city in Italy, but also a district in the west of Los Angeles. Here, a block from the ocean, architect Jamie Bush completed the new project - reconstructed the house for a young entrepreneur.

Bush grew up in a family of farmers: they kept a dairy farm on Long Island, while my mother made furniture, and my father created sculptures from machine parts. In addition to them, the boy was brought up by his grandmother-designer, cousin-artist and aunt-fashion designer. Scion eccentric clan decided to study art and architecture. He went first to New Orleans, and then to Venice - to the “real”, Italian, where he focused on organic modernism.



After receiving the diploma, Bush worked under the leadership of Kelly Westler, and in 2002 opened his own firm, and since then he was lucky: he had a hand in the reconstruction of several significant modernist villas in California.

Today, Bush divides time between Long Island, where he lives with his family in a barge moored off the coast, and Los Angeles, in which most of his clients live. They appreciate the architect for his ability to erase the boundaries between architecture and design and to interpret the interior of even a large villa as a whole.


The first thing that sees entering the house is a giant wave image: watercolor extends over three floors, connecting all levels. And they are very different in mood.

Lightness and white color predominate, which is predictable in a house on the ocean with works of art on the walls. Unusually - that the ceiling is trimmed with European larch. "I love just such a combination, a wooden ceiling and a white floor, it gives off surrealism."

There is a completely different atmosphere in the basement, where a home theater is equipped. "I wanted to create a kind of cave here." The architect lowered the ceilings and sheathed the walls with wood to get a sound-absorbing effect. And in the music room next door, where the young owner learns to play the drum set, he hung up custom acoustic panels. "The concrete box is the wrong place to play the drums."






