Contemporary Art Gallery

Private Client | Santa Monica, CA

Size and Cost:

3,500 SF; $1.5 M

Year:

1996

TEAM:

PRINCIPALS:

Steve Johnson, Jim Favaro

PRINCIPAL-IN-CHARGE:

Jim Favaro

PROJECT ARCHITECT:

Steve Johnson

award:

AIA INSTITUTE

Design Award, 1999

Photographer:

Grant Mudford


This addition to a 1970's era residence in Rustic Canyon houses the client's extensive private collection of contemporary art including pieces by Larry Bell, John McCracken and Jim Hodges among others. The gallery displays two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces, as well as large scale installations. The gallery connects to the main residence by way of an open-air atrium through which a 200 year-old sycamore tree—one of many which are native in the canyon-- grows.