Lidan Sfadia’s Encino Home Is Built on Restraint + Rounded Marble
Design Milk | 19.02.2026 21:00
Encino Home sits on the north slope of the Santa Monica Mountains, in a part of the San Fernando Valley where mid-century architects – Quincy Jones, Richard Dorman, Martin Gelber – built post-and-beam houses among the hillside oaks, a legacy that still shapes the neighborhood. Lidan Sfadia’s 7,500 sqft residence does not try to replicate the mid-century idiom, but instead learns from it – creating a project built on restraint, material honesty, and respect for the site, which is then channeled through a vocabulary drawn from European estate architecture and Napa Valley’s agrarian elegance.
