Ome Dezin Restores a Whitney R. Smith Home in the Hollywood Hills
Design Milk | 15.06.2026 20:00
In The Colony, a tightly held enclave of the Hollywood Hills where mid-century houses survive in unusual numbers, a 1960 residence by Whitney R. Smith carries the quiet authority of a building that knew exactly what it wanted to be. Smith, a Case Study House architect and co-founder of Smith & Williams, belonged to the generation of Southern California modernists treated sawtooth ceilings and angular geometries as instruments for light, pulling it down into the volumes at measured intervals. The brief handed to Ome Dezin was less a renovation than a negotiation with that intelligence.
