Panorama designer Molly Sedlacek may be acquainted to those who frequent our sister website online Gardenista, the place her initiatives, merchandise, and philosophy have all been feverishly lined. There’s good trigger for the fandom. Molly’s work beneath her company, ORCA, is modern and thoughtful and makes a compelling case for the marriage of minimalism and naturalism. Appears, her home in LA’s Highland Park moreover telegraphs a less-is-more, natural-is-best ethos.
She discovered the compact house once more in 2022. “I was residing out of my van, developing my enterprise in Los Angeles. I knew it was the acceptable time to make the leap from Marin, the place I was renting a small rental, right into a home the place I could operate ORCA and develop,” says Molly. Nonetheless she felt defeated that the properties on the market inside her “beginner funds” had been each sad fixer-uppers and even sadder renovated flips, neither of which she wanted.
Then she stepped into “Fig,” the establish given to the skinny, cork-wrapped house by the distinctive proprietor (Michael Tessler) and its architect (Daveed Kapoor)—and it merely felt correct. “The home was like a pure extension of my work. And in meeting Michael, who conceptualized the world, it was clear we had been aligned on how trendy improvement should be approached. The provides chosen and the attention to space felt very linked to nature—nothing wasteful, each little factor intentional.”
On move-in day, the rental truck wasn’t filled with chairs and tables and containers of beloved knick-knacks (there may be no room for them anyway throughout the Fig). As an alternative, the truck was crammed with boulders, bricks, and crops—these had been her cherished objects. “There was a working joke from the shifting crew about having to maneuver rocks and bricks versus furnishings and ‘useful’ points,” she says. “The kalanchoes, cabbage timber, and elephant tree had been all a part of my earlier home. There is a story to every plant, and sometimes I’d like that story to proceed on.”
Beneath, Molly affords us a tour of Fig, which now contains a merely renovated street-level work studio and, naturally, quite a few stone and crops.
Footage by Justin Chung, courtesy of ORCA, till in some other case well-known.
Flooring 1: Work
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