Los Angeles owes some of its romanticism to its Spanish Revival style, which brought the warmth of terra-cotta to the city’s buildings since the 1930s. A home for a young family of two stems from such a lineage. Its Spanish tiled roof became the starting point for a new ADU by Current Interests, a firm that was recently featured in AN Interior’s Top 50 list. The firm eschewed pastiche of the revival style in favor of a more inventive approach: creating a new terra-cotta tile to clad the building.
“Because this is an addition to an existing property, we were looking at the ways in which houses from the 1930s build up with age and carry a presence over time, of material overlapping and things being overgrown,” Mira Henry, cofounder of Current Interests, told AN Interior. “We wanted to find a way to respond to the overgrown context in a more relaxed way.”
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