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Scenes Parties, galas, and charitable gatherings, including Childhelp South Coast Plaza Fashion Show, Table for 10, Philanthropy Day, and more.

Food for Thought Fun breakfast function with OC design and real estate insiders at Moya Living.

When Flying Was Fun AirCal exhibition at Balboa Island Museum sparks memories of the OC-based airline and a bygone era of air travel.

In the Light of the Shadow UCI alum Glenn Kaino’s exhibition is one of many topics discussed in OCMA CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman’s new book, Conversations with Artists III.

The Heidi Show Ideas, insight, and inspiration from OCMA’s Heidi Zuckerman, collected from her newest book, Conversations with Artists III.

Elemental Ebay Laguna Beach artist Chris Gwaltney’s first SoCal solo exhibition since 2011 at Kennedy Contemporary in Newport Beach.

Iconic OC The origin story of Orange County is set at Mission San Juan Capistrano. A look at its legacy through vintage images.

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Mission Statement A visit to Mission San Juan Capistrano today.

Design Matters Tips, trends, and product advice from design insiders and interior experts.

76 Member Spaces

Blue Door Magazine members talk real estate, design, surfing, and living in Coastal Orange County.

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82 Real Estate Gallery Exclusive OC real estate listings from Blue Door Magazine members.

108 Estate of Grace A sprawling Laguna Niguel property commands attention from its eightfigure, bluff-top position.

118 Desert Showstopper An Indian Wells midcentury moves into the spotlight with a brand-new take on the showcase concept.

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130 The Art of Menswear Celebrating the power, artistry, and diversity of masculine attire via a V&A exhibition sponsored by Gucci.

146 Fashion in Motion The first collection of Harris Reed, a British-American designer born in California, as featured in the V&A Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear exhibition.

150 Estate Tales

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FOUNDING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Kedric Francis

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“The cover was inspired by a photo session with our team at Mission San Juan Capistrano,” says photographer Brett Hillyard. “While shooting at the Mission, that word mission stayed with me, and my brain envisioned an astronaut. It took some convincing, but I was committed to what I thought was a crazy and cool concept. We visited a few sites for the shoot, and finally we ‘landed’ at the Dartmoor Trail overlooking the Laguna Beach coastline. Lauren Horn did an amazing job modeling the heavy NASA suit in 80-degree weather. All the hot yoga she does helped her train for this moment! My favorite Blue Door Magazine moments are unexpected, with a bit of whimsy. That’s why I love this cover.” Model Lauren Horn of San Clemente is an asset manager with Palm Communities and a private yoga instructor. lnhorn1@gmail.com hillycollective.com A R C H I T E C T U R E • D E S I G N • A R T • L I F E S T Y L E • R E A L E S TAT E

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE from Maria Barnes

The Mission San Juan Capistrano is an iconic part of Orange County and a place I wish I frequented more. The ruin of the original Old Stone Church built over 200 years ago never ceases to amaze. We shot at the Mission recently, and spending the morning on the grounds took me back to my parochial school days. It reminds me of the magic of faith and the role Missions have played in the history of California. A new art exhibition, California Missions in Oil, runs through July 10 and gives us all a reason to revisit. Plus, summertime brings events to the Mission, including Kontrapunktus performing Italian baroque in the Mission Basilica (6.12), and the Outside SCR production of Million Dollar Quartet (7.30–8.21). San Juan Capistrano is having “a moment” and spending a Saturday afternoon there is a must. Mayfield is a fantastic restaurant where California cooking fuses with Middle East/Mediterranean and North African cuisine. Proprietor George Barker opened Mayfield back in 2020—it is one of my favorites. Chef Jayro Martinez, formerly of Mayfield, just opened Outer Reef restaurant with celeb chef John Tesar in Dana Point at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort and Spa. I am dying to try it. While on the subject of good food, I attended the Table for Ten fundraiser this year. Kudos to Kristin Martin for putting on the most amazing culinary event on the festival grounds of the Pageant of the Masters. Kedric Francis, Brett Hillyard, and I sat at the CDM Restaurant table and were completely spoiled with the most insane six-course meal. I cannot wait to see what Kristin does with Festival of Chefs in July. Get your tickets ASAP. It benefits one of my favorite causes, KidWorks. Last year it raised over $800,000 to help kids in need and I know we can do more to help this year. There are some great new restaurants popping up in the OC that I just have to mention. Rum Social across from Hotel Laguna opened last month and I love it! Try the most amazing cocktails and the tuna and cauliflower with curry. The staff even brought a handwritten birthday card signed by the entire crew. I tried Butcher’s House Brasserie in SOCO one evening last week and it was fantastic, authentic French brasserie fare. I cannot wait to go back. I am also excited for the new A Restaurant in Crystal Cove. Crystal Cove needs a new spot and A is the perfect choice. So excited to be working with the oh-so-talented Jeannie Denholm, proprietor of Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar. Her Woods Davy sculpture exhibit is delightful. Brett Hillyard and I did her photo shoot at the studio/gallery of Jeff Peters on Lido. We are surrounded by such amazing talent here in Orange County. Lucky us. If you have any story ideas or interest in advertising, please always reach out to me. Happy summer!! Ciao Maria Barnes, Publisher 949.436.1590 maria@bluedoormagazine.com 20

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EDITOR’S NOTE

from Kedric Francis

Our three school-age kids had an open house at their elementary school recently, when parents and siblings tour the classrooms, see where their children sit, and look at their art and schoolwork on the walls. The open house is a charming enough event during the school year, but I was surprised at how anticipated it was in our household. The kids talked about the projects we’d see, and details not to miss in their rooms. Our fifth-grade son even made an itemized list of everything we should observe. I like to believe I’m more aware of the world around me than many, with strong attention to detail. But my wife finally had to remind me why the open house was such a big deal: it had been three years since we’d been to one, and we’d only been on the closed campus school that our kids attend once or twice since they started there. I’ve gotten comfortable with school being back to a new normal, more or less. And honestly, I haven’t missed the drama and random annoyances we used to endure walking our kids to a more open campus, where I’d wait until they went into the classroom instead of just walking them to the gate. I knew who was polite and who misbehaved—both kids and parents. I knew which mom or dad to avoid if I didn’t want 30 minutes of minutiae about neighborhood drama to start my day. That’s what NextDoor is for. Now, I’m happy dropping them off in blissful ignorance. So, back to the open houses. I have new appreciation for how well kids and teachers have bounced back from the challenges of the past few years. The rooms were colorful and cheerful, with positive affirmations on the walls and examples of excellent work everywhere. Because I’d spent several hours at Mission San Juan Capistrano for this issue, and still more time brushing up on the history and legacy of the iconic place from

original sources, books, and academic papers, I was intrigued to see that 4th graders still learn about the California Missions. While I didn’t see any models made of sugar cubes or Popsicle sticks, I was drawn to a bulletin board covered with colorful art and essays on the topic. Our daughter and her classmates were asked to take a position on whether the indigenous Acjachemen should or should not have moved to the Missions. We’ll ignore for now whether there was a choice in the matter, but I was pleased that they’d learned enough about the history to form an opinion. Rosey took the side of the Acjachemen, writing passionately that the people should have been able to choose to stay in their villages, noting the injustices they endured When I bring the family to Mission San Juan Capistrano, and visit for concerts, weddings, and preservation fundraisers, I admire the beauty of the grounds, gardens, and ruins. I appreciate the history of the place where what is now Orange County began. And I take time to meditate on the lives lived and lost there, including those killed in the earthquake that toppled the Great Stone Church in 1812. The ruins of the church have an austere beauty. The space is sacred for many, while only a dramatic photo backdrop for others. I suggest a sense of reverence when I bring friends and family there, showing respect for those who built the place and perished within its walls, and those whose faith draws them to the Mission today. What Orange County places are sacred spaces for you? Let me know, and perhaps we’ll visit a few in an upcoming issue. Until next time, stay safe, be kind, and take care of each other, please. kedric@bluedoormagazine.com

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CHILDHELP SAVES CHILDREN Photos by John Watkins It was hard not to be stunned by the story of Christina Ruiz, the keynote speaker at Childhelp’s 36th annual “For the Love of a Child” Fashion Show and Luncheon, sponsored by South Coast Plaza. We were seated with her at a table hosted by Stardust donor Jacquie Casey, where we learned she was Childhelp’s Public Affairs Specialist. Ruiz was a charming and amusing table-mate, while also offering a wealth of information about Childhelp’s programs for abused and neglected children. Later, when Ruiz spoke on stage, we learned some horrific details about her childhood, when she was homeless, and a victim of abuse and 24

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1. Childhelp founders Yvonne Fedderson and Sara O’ Meara, with Chair Patti Edwards

2. Childhelp President Pam Pharris, South Coast Plaza’s Stephanie Rogers, and Diana Miner

3. Co-Chairs Gina Van Ocker, Patricia Ford, and Patti Edwards

4. N ancy Cardin and Pam Pharris

5. Childhelp founder Sara

trafficking. But she was saved and begin recovering once she became a resident of Childhelp Merv Griffin Village. Guests at the fashionable event could not have imagined a more tragic origin story, or asked for a better example of how Childhelp can radically transform lives. Thanks to the spring fashion luncheon co-chaired by Patti Edwards, Patricia Ford, and Gina Van Ocker, which raised more than $475,000, luncheon attendees helped save thousands of other children facing what Ruiz overcame. Some 280 guests gathered at the Balboa Bay Resort, including Childhelp founders Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson. Childhelp’s own OC angel Patti Edwards presented actor and philanthropist Cheryl Ladd with the Children’s Friend award for her 40 years of support of Childhelp.

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After the gorgeous South Coast Plaza fashion show, there was a raffle featuring sought-after items from South Coast Plaza boutiques, including Bally, Camilla, Lafayette 148 New York, Buccellati, and Roger Vivier.

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South Coast Plaza fashion from Bally, Lafayette 148 New York, Intermix, Ted Baker London, Ba&sh, Camilla, Sandro, Maje, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

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CELEBRATING PHILANTHROPY Photos by Tony Lattimore

Many of Orange County’s leading philanthropists, business leaders, and generous individuals were honored at the 36th Annual National Philanthropy Day Awards Luncheon, which was attended by 640 guests at City National Grove of Anaheim. PBS-So Cal’s Maria Hall-Brown served as emcee, and former Outstanding Philanthropist Nella Webster O’Grady was this year’s Honorary Chair. Event Co-Chairs were Joan McBride and Elizabeth McKibbin. Honorees included 17-year-old Saachi Pavani, Youth Honoree; Outstanding Founder Meymuna Hussein-Cattan, who was born in a refugee camp in Somalia and founded The Tiyya Foundation; Outstanding Philanthropists Diana and David Sun; and Outstanding Large Corporation, Banc of California.

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1. Charles Antis, Caterina Hall-Richards, and Bill Bracken

2. A FP President Michelle Bigcardi, PBS So-Cal’s Maria Hall-Brown, Angela Dailey, Outstanding Philanthropic Group honoree, Honorary Chair Nella Webster O’Grady

3. Paul Leon and Jack Toan 4. O utstanding Volunteer Fundraiser Eileen Padberg; Outstanding Youth Saachi Pavani; Jeanette Knutti, CEO of Outstanding Small Business, Moxie Marketing Agency; Outstanding Founder Meymuna Hussein-Cattan for The Tiyya Foundation

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Photos by Teresa Taylor Photography New Directions for Women (NDFW) celebrated 45 years of service at a breakfast at the Balboa Bay Resort. Some 400 attendees (in-person and virtual) raised more than $275,000 at the St. Patrick’s Day event in support of the nonprofit’s residential treatment for women and their children. “We’re grateful to our friends, sponsors, and all attendees for their contributions to this year’s incredible fundraising efforts,” says New Directions for Women’s Foundation President and Chairperson Barbara Wiggs-Nelson. One of the country’s only nonprofit addiction facilities, NDFW was founded in part by Pamela Wilder with the support and assistance of the Junior League of Orange County. NDFW’s addiction treatment program was created in response to a shortage of affordable and accessible rehabilitation treatment services for women suffering from alcoholism, substance use disorder, and other related issues.

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3. Barbara Wiggs-Nelson 4. D evon Martin and Carole Pickup

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A TASTY TABLE FOR TEN Photos by Tony Lattimore and Bob Hodson The Blue Door Magazine crew was thrilled to be seated at the CdM Restaurant table during the Table for 10 fundraiser at Festival of Arts/ Pageant of the Masters grounds in Laguna Beach. CdM Executive Chef Elvis Morales and his culinary team prepared an amazing multicourse meal tableside that included scallops, charred octopus, and filet mignon, all paired perfectly with wine, of course. It made for a wonderful meal, enjoyed al fresco with good friends and colleagues. The CdM Restaurant team was among dozens that cooked for guests at the event, with table decor created by the restaurant team as well (we loved the throwback Crow Bar plates the CdM team used for one course). The charitable case was the Pascal Culinary Scholarship Program. More than $300,000 was raised for the program founded by Pascal

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Olhats that provides grants for culinary arts students at Saddleback and OCC, as well as working Orange County chefs who want to go back to school. Kristin Martin and KM Productions produced the 16th annual culinary extravaganza. The event’s Honorary Chef, Ugo Allesina of Prego Restaurant, was honored by Pascal Olhats, the event’s Chef Scholarship Chair, whose culinary scholarship program was the recipient of the evening’s proceeds. Pascal lauded Allesina for his culinary skills as well as his giving of time and energy to a multitude of charitable causes in Orange County for many years.

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4. H onorary Chef Ugo Allesina (Prego Restaurant), Event Chair Chef Pascal Olhats (Pascal Cuisine Catering), Venue Host Chef Donald Lockhart (Terra Restaurant)

5. Table for Ten crowd at Laguna Beach Festival grounds

6. Janet Curci 7. Denise Lebre, Stephanie Lloyd 8. Chef Elvis Morales (CDM Restaurant)

9. BTitle Sponsor Mary Murfey and Table for Ten Founder/Director Kristin Martin

The live auction, led by intriguingly spirited auctioneer DawnMarie Kotsonis, included an overnight villa stay at Pelican Hill Resort, including spa treatments, golf, and a chef’s dinner for 10, as well as dinners offered by participating chefs in the winners’ homes. Included were Ugo Allesina of Prego Restaurant, Chris Tzorin of Taste Collective, Brandon Hall of Thyme Well Spent Catering, and Jonathan Stanley of Dana Point Yacht Club.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT Photos by Brett Hillyard

Blue Door Magazine’s recent “Food for Thought’’ breakfast event was held at Moya Living’s showroom and headquarters, where the brand’s colorful metal kitchen cabinetry is designed, manufacured, and displayed. The space comes complete with a gourmet kitchen, which inspired BDM founder Justin Williams and Wynn O’Neill to prepare breakfast for the group of design and real estate insiders who gathered to eat, meet, and mingle, and also hear about what’s cutting-edge in kitchens. Moya O’Neill welcomed guests and spoke about her brand’s timeless designs, and guest speaker Annette Reeves of PIRCH shared her experience in the industry in a Q&A with Justin, while also offering kitchen and bath design trends and information.

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WHEN FLYING WAS FUN

AirCal exhibition at Balboa Island Museum sparks memories of the OC-based airline and a bygone era of air travel

The 1970s and ’80s were the good-old days for air travel out of Orange County. Back then, one could drive up and park near the old Eddie Martin Terminal ten minutes before your flight to the Bay Area (or wherever), check in, walk onto the apron, climb the boarding stairs, and be in your seat chatting with fashionably dressed flight attendants with time to spare. No long security lines, taking off of shoes, surly passengers, or other annoyances of the modern age. There was leg room, even. And airline employees who could tell a joke. It was the AirCal era, with a big assist from PSA. These two California-based airlines ruled the local routes at a time when flying was fun. The Balboa Island Museum Newport Beach has been reliving that era with an exhibition and events celebrating the local history of AirCal.

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Above: AirCal flight attendants and employees and an Air California arline over Orange County. Orange County Airport‘s Eddie Martin Terminal, circa 1967, designed by original Air California co-owner William Pereira.

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Above: Gen. William Lyon and George L. Argyros bought Air California out of bankruptcy for $61.5 million in 1982, rebranded it as AirCal, built it into a major player on the West Coast corridor with some 3,700 employees, and sold it to American Airlines for $225 million in 1987.

Air California was founded in 1967 by five businessmen in Corona del Mar, including William Pereira, the architect who master-planned UCI, Irvine and Newport Center, and designed the beautiful old terminal at Orange County Airport. The airline had its headquarters in Newport Beach. When George Argyros and Gen. William Lyon bought Air California, they changed its name to AirCal with a bright new logo and image, including a new staff wardrobe by fashion designer Mary McFadden. The dynamic duo sold it for a handsome profit for friends and fellow investors. The exhibition runs through May, and includes memorabilia, photos, uniforms, and more, with the highlight of its run a reunion event that drew former employees, family, and airline aficionados to the museum. Captions con resti blab in conest enihili tatem. Et ea con prae. Nam quis re nobisit qui que ipisinu llignimus pro teni con pra sit aliquid quuntis ress

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SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY UCI alum Glenn Kaino’s East Coast exhibition In the Light of the Shadow is one of many thoughtful topics he and OCMA CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman discuss in her book, Conversations with Artists III

Glenn Kaino: In the Light of a Shadow is on display at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) through September 4, 2022. The exhibition is in MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 galleries, with immersive installations spanning the football field-sized space. Curated by Denise Markonish, In the Light of a Shadow is inspired by the connection between protests across the globe, specifically those in response to the tragic events both known as “Bloody Sunday.” On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, John Lewis and Hosea Williams led 600 protestors in a march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a nonviolent action intended to spotlight civil rights violations, while also demanding voting rights. The peaceful protestors were attacked by troopers with tear gas, beaten, and many were hospitalized. On January 30, 1972, 15,000 protestors marched from Bishop’s Field in Derry, Northern Ireland, in protest of violations of civil rights by the British government. The British military opened fire, killing and injuring dozens. In Ireland, this date is also referred to as “Bloody Sunday” and has been memorialized by U2 through their iconic 1983 song. Installation view of Glenn Kaino: In the Light of a Shadow at MASS MoCA, 2021.

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In the Light of a Shadow creates “a sense of wonder and hope, while issuing an urgent call to action,” according to the museum. BlueDoorMagazine.com

“The entire show is about how we can create moments of progress in the face of many different seemingly conflicting crises,” Kaino said in an LA Times profile written by Deborah Vankin. “People think we have to choose—climate justice, social justice—it’s all one crisis. Caring is not bound to one thing. There is still room for hope,” Kaino insists. “For magic.” Kaino is a UC Irvine graduate known for his conceptual and often collaborative art practice. A fourth-generation Angeleno, Kaino co-founded (with Daniel J. Martinez and Tracey Shiffman) Deep River Gallery, the not not-for-profit space for exhibition and experimentation in downtown Los Angeles (1997-2002) that featured underrepresented artists, including UCI students and faculty. Kaino will co-curate an exhibition at the Hammer Museum with Mika Yoshitake as part of Pacific Standard Time 2024. Breath(e): Towards Climate and Social Justice will bring together the work of artists, activists, scientists, architects, and others to consider how the climate crisis and social justice movements are linked.

Top: Part of the installation is a circular sculpture resembling a cage or jail cell that, when bars are struck in sequence with a baton (which visitors can wield), plays a melody from U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” Above: An elevated, 100-foot-long pathway bisects a composition made of thousands of rocks resembling an asteroid field or a meteor shower, while also recalling rocks thrown in protest.

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CORE CONCERNS Heidi Zuckerman and Glenn Kaino on hopes, dreams, and why art matters, from their discussion in Conversations with Artists III HEIDI ZUCKERMAN How did you make your way to art? GLENN KAINO I had a complicated upbringing. I grew up in an LA suburb called Cerritos and ended up finding myself at a number of different high schools. By the grace of some counselors recommending that I go to college, I went to UC Irvine and landed in the art department there. I was always a maker. We made our own toys on the street as kids. We would just build the worlds we wanted to see. HZ When I first started these conversations, I was asking everyone why they think art matters. I feel compelled to ask you because I have a feeling you can distill it in a way that will etch it into people’s minds, in the same way that the experience of your artwork does for me. GK I believe that art provides the excuse for the conspiracy of your viewers, of you as a curator, of myself as an artist. We are all artmakers, whether or not our job title is “artist.” By being art-makers, we are creating the space for new ideas to be put out into the world… We need to invest in the poets and people who are going to risk their lives, livelihoods, and careers to boldly suggest that there is a world we can all aspire to be part of. We’re going to be able to teach each other the incremental micro-steps to get there. That’s what I think art can do.

HZ What kind of work do you make? What does it look like? GK When I got into art-making, many years ago, I had a crisis about how I was going to make a contribution. Even back then, it seemed like every good idea had already been done. I realized that part of what I grew up with, whether it’s hip-hop, collage, or whatever, was about the way to assemble the disparate pieces that you’re given. I started working with those sculpturally, and then I realized I do that with everything—I do it with ideas, with people, stories, concepts. I like to say that I use art and techniques associated with art to put together things that don’t normally have a chance, under normal circumstances, to meet. Art provides a wonderful layer of abstraction that allows for creativity and artistic production; it fills the gaps between things that don’t normally get along or are irreconcilable. I start with a series of core concerns that are the through line across my practice. Those ideas have expressed themselves through sculpture, film, performance, photography, and painting. To bring it back to the show [In the Light of a Shadow] at MASS MoCA, it incorporates all of that: there’s painting, sculpture, and film. At the core, all of the works are correlated to specific on-the-ground activism, as well. In Building 5, the gallery is primarily realized as an 18,000-square-foot, 35-minute shadow-puppet show that is a theatrical performance made by a series of sculptures. HZ I love the end of what you said there, where you just threw in the shadow-puppet aspect without a pause of emphasis or anything. The simultaneity of your work is one of the things that’s so great about what you do. You referenced the bridging of things, which are seemingly irreconcilable, and the celebration of that commingling, which could be used as a metaphor for some of our hopes, dreams, and desires for a greater world, frankly. GK Yeah, absolutely. That is 100 percent the intention of the entire practice. BlueDoorMagazine.com

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THE HEIDI SHOW

By Kedric Francis

Ideas, insight, and inspiration from OCMA’s Heidi Zuckerman, collected from her newest book, Conversations with Artists III

As the October opening of the new Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) draws nearer, Blue Door Magazine will continue to focus on the dramatic impact the museum will have on OC art, culture, and community. The debut of the Thom Mayne-designed building at Segerstrom Center for the Arts will mark a new era, thanks to the foundational effort of artists, patrons, philanthropists, and visionary leaders over six decades. One of those visionaries has been in a position of local influence for just 16 months, but her impact has been nothing short of seismic. Heidi Zuckerman is the CEO and Director of OCMA. She previously curated more than 200 art exhibitions at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Jewish Museum in New York, and most recently at the Aspen Art Museum, where she was a transformative figure in her 14 years as CEO and Director.

Zuckerman took the top position at OCMA at an opportune time, when her entrepreneurial drive, creative charisma, and organizational intelligence was most needed. Her era of arts leadership that Orange County is experiencing has many attributes, perhaps the most unique of which is tremendous transparency. Much is revealed about Heidi Zuckerman—her thoughts, philosophies, rituals, personal truths, and spiritual practice— as she talks to creative individuals in her newest book, Conversations with Artists III. The collection of 18 conversations is a fascinating exploration of how artists see the world and their work. Equally intriguing for new and longtime Zuckerman aficionados are the life lessons and words of wisdom woven throughout the book.

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I WANT to give people the opportunity to be profoundly changed by their interaction with an art object. It’s an abstract notion, but when it works, there’s nothing like it. If you’ve had that experience, you can spend the rest of your life chasing it. It’s only ever happened to me a couple of times in my life.

IT’S INTERESTING to think about why art works. We get really focused on the how. When you know what the how is, sometimes it’s then about demystifying things. It’s nice to be able to live with a belief in things that we can’t understand; that makes life more interesting. Even if we know there’s a possibility of understanding something intellectually, it’s nice to give ourselves the opportunities that can come from that philosophical space of not knowing and not needing to know, that allowance of something magical or inexplicable. Art has that possibility; it has the possibility of existing in that space. You can know how someone created something, but you can also be with it and allow its presence.

I SEE the museum as a

place of infinite possibility. One of my favorite things is to look at art with other people because everyone sees things differently. There is no right answer.

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I HEAR people say, “I don’t get it,” about contemporary art. When I give a walkthrough, I explain that I’m not always sure I understand certain things the artist was trying to communicate. People realize that if I don’t get it, it’s OK if they don’t. That’s a freeing concept. If we loosen our grip a little instead of trying to control everything all the time, we can live better lives.

I’M INTERESTED in the intersection of life practice and art practice. For a while, I tried to do at least one thing every day that I was afraid of, or that made me uncomfortable. Over time, things became less intimidating or scary because, in my head, they were always worse than doing them.

I LEARNED how each exhibition comes together like a word to make a sentence or a note to make a musical composition. Not everything worked, but it was a laboratory. For me, it’s always about the artists and the collaboration. It’s about being of service, thinking about what would benefit the artists and their practices, then positioning it to the audience.

THE MUSEUM CAN’T be all things to all people. No institution can do that. No person can do that. The strategy is exhibiting contemporary art all the time to push people’s comfort levels with it. The things that sometimes make us angry or confused make us feel alive. If we see objects that we already know and recognize, there’s no real impact, but if we see something that challenges our way of thinking or seeing, we keep going back to it to try and figure it out. Then it has long-term impact. I’m interested in setting up situations where people are uncomfortable, because in that push, there’s the possibility of the transcendent.

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I KNOW that art matters; it makes people better and makes their lives better.

I LOVE nature as much as art. I love the idea that those who love art can go out into nature to find it—to have the fusion of those things and combine the physical search with a philosophical one.

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idea of life as a practice, curating as a practice, art-making as a practice, athleticism as a practice, and I’m interested in the parallels between artists and athletes in terms of repetition.

I’M BIG on proximity. Let’s sit down, be close, let’s talk. Some people are uncomfortable being close to things and people, but proximity can’t be underestimated. Certain art forms are harder to understand, if not feel, without being in their presence. Certainly sculpture; it’s hard to get a sense of its truth or essence without being with it in the same physical space. I DON’T THINK things happen by accident. Life is about serendipities, and oftentimes people miss them because they’re just not paying attention or they’re not present. Life is conscious and intentional.

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I’M FASCINATED by this idea of confusion. A lot of people associate contemporary art with confusion; that’s one of the uphill struggles—trying to convince people that contemporary art can be for them. I’ve adopted a strategy over time about celebrating the idea of confusion and being uncomfortable, or rather, being comfortable in an uncomfortable place, and championing the idea that sometimes it’s beneficial to not be able to understand things.

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that differently, and I will next time.’ There is a sense of grace that comes with saying that.

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I’VE SPENT some time in the last year working on this idea of the hero’s journey— Joseph Campbell’s theory. A big part of that is who shows up in your life as a guide or an adversary. The idea of the guide, whether that’s a person or an artwork, is part of how we can change from not being able to see something to it being obvious and apparent. One of my favorite Campbell quotes is: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” When I first read that, it was such an impactful idea—we can have everything we want, particularly if we go to the places we’re afraid of, wherever those are: physically, psychologically, psychically. Life doesn’t have to be filled with such discomfort, but it has to be filled with a willingness to not allow that space to have the power to prevent us from doing, having, or being what we desire.

I THINK a lot about the long arc of time and our responsibility for the people in our families whom we will never know. I just did this exercise where we were talking about ancestors. Part of the exercise was writing down your parents’ names, their parents’ names, and then their parents’ names. Most people can’t get all of those, and virtually no one I was with could get further than that. The idea was that in three generations, people can’t remember their relations’ names, so what kind of legacy do you want to have? What is long term for you? Is it ten years, 50 years, 100 years? What are the seeds you can plant that you’ll never experience yourself, but are important for whomever comes next?

PEOPLE ASK me how I make the choices I make. Sometimes there can be language around it, but it’s often a combination of language and feeling, or intuition, or something that. I’m responding to something I’m seeing or hearing.

I LOVE narrative and storytelling. One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot this year is how to tell stories, how to tell interesting stories, and how to tell stories that are personal enough that they add value, are authentic, and are specific enough that people care about them. They must be relatable, too. There need to be some universal elements: heartache, love, connection, expectation, things like that.

I LOVE being

excited about what we don’t know. We don’t know what’s going to happen, really, ever, with anything. If we approach it with a conscious curiosity, then that’s somehow tied to optimism and hope.

Conversations with Artists III by Heidi Zuckerman includes interviews with Doug Aitken, Daniel Arsham, Sam Falls, Jennifer Guidi, Glenn Kaino, Bharti Kher, Käthe Kollwitz, Guerrilla Girls, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Marlo Pascual, Adam Pendleton, Richard Phillips, Seth Price, Christina Quarles, Tom Sachs, Gary Simmons, Mary Weatherford, Hank Willis Thomas, and Alicia Wormsley. Published by Hiz.art Distributed by Orange County Museum of Art ocma.art BlueDoorMagazine.com

ELEMENTAL EBAY Laguna Beach artist Chris Gwaltney’s first SoCal solo exhibition since 2011 at Kennedy Contemporary in Newport Beach

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Chris Gwaltney’s art has always been evocative, luminous, and lush. His earlier work was balanced between abstraction and figurative, with the influence of the beach, waves, and ocean horizons never far away. He balances color with unexpected washes and scribbles. An exemplary painting from that era shows two shadowy silhouettes of figures. One has the letter D on its chest in red. The word “manly” is on the canvas, with a red line through it, and “anger’d” scrawled below. Half of the diptych has perfectly symmetrical vertical lines scraped physically into the surface. Red letters set equidistant across the bottom of the painting spell out the artist’s name, a signature element of that era. Southern California collectors of this and related work by Gwaltney likely acquired it at Peter Blake Gallery, at a time when Gwaltney and other contemporary California artists were key to the culture and cool of the Laguna Beach art scene created at the gallery. Times change, and Gwaltney’s most recent work has evolved into a more abstract form, eschewing the enigmatic figures. Kennedy Contemporary in Newport Beach is exhibiting twelve of these new paintings in a solo show, ELEMENTAL, through June 26. It is Gwaltney’s first Southern California show since 2011. ELEMENTAL debuts a new series born of a deliberate, philosophical shift, one that eschews the mechanics of study for the raw expression. With this collection, Gwaltney moves further from figurative constraints, diving deeper into color and its power to conduct the eye and evoke emotion. In this new, edgeless landscape he purposely sets up mistakes on the canvas in order to “fix” or respond to them with engaging marks and colors. Just as Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park series is abstract, but with a sense of place, light, and space that reflects the Santa Monica setting where the artist worked, Gwaltney’s art of every era evokes Emerald Bay. It’s where he and wife Jill, founder of the uber-successful marketing agency Rauxa, have long lived, and where they raised their children, Dylan and Cooper. Those who have been in their home recall it as being filled with art and light, with big outdoor decks, asymmetrical interiors, and high-ceilinged spaces combining to create something unique. In creating their home, the duo demonstrate that the indoor/outdoor California lifestyle that is so often evoked can not only be lived, but raised to the level of fine art as well.

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ICONIC OC Great Stone Church ruins, Mission San Juan Capistrano. Photographed by Henry F. Withey, June 1936, for The Historic American Buildings Survey.

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What are the most important buildings in Orange County— the most historic, architecturally significant, and the most beautiful? What built spaces and public places make us unique? These are the questions Blue Door Magazine is exploring as we tour Iconic OC.

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Above: Mission San Juan Capistrano and Orange County environs. Photographed by Henry F. Withey, June 1936. Right: Drawing detail of Old Stone Church, roof over sanctuary, looking north, 1936. The photographs and drawings in this story are from The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), established in 1933 to create a public archive of America’s architectural heritage. HABS was just one of many cultural New Deal programs initiated during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration that offered relief to the unemployed during the Great Depression while at the same time enriching American life both materially and culturally. Within weeks of receiving its approval, hundreds of the unemployed architects were in the field recording for HABS. The HABS collection represents “a complete resume of the builder’s art,” ranging “from the smallest utilitarian structures to the largest and most monumental.”

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The origin story of Orange County is set at Mission San Juan Capistrano. The Mission is a place both sacred and secular, where indigenous, Spanish, Mexican, American, and Californian people lived, built, worked, prayed, served, suffered, mourned, and died. One could say that the Mission San Juan Capistrano is the oldest designed space that exists in Orange County, though that would ignore the world and the people here before the Spanish. The Acjachemen believe they have lived here since the beginning of time, while archaeologists have documented the people’s presence for 10,000 years, in village sites from the mountains to the coast. Twenty-one California Missions were established by the ruling Spanish kingdom from 1769 through 1823 as a means of providing control over the area and its indigenous peoples, thus converting them to Catholicism. The seventh mission was Mission San Juan Capistrano, founded in 1776. The Acjachemen were induced to work at the Mission and become Catholics. The converts became known as the Juaneño. The Juaneño built the mission structures and residences and performed all the labor.

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A small adobe chapel, called Father Serra’s Church, was constructed at the Mission in 1788. Construction of the Great Stone church began in 1796 and was completed in 1806; the building measured 180 feet in length by 40 feet wide and included a massive bell tower that extended 120 feet tall. Of the 21 California missions established in the 18th and 19th centuries, San Juan Capistrano was the only one built from stone. Access to stone permitted European-inspired dome or vaulted roof construction that could span wide naves. This construction required thick exterior walls, and even buttresses, to support the outward thrust of the heavy roofs. By 1812, 3,340 persons had been baptized at the Mission San Juan Capistrano, and 1,361 Juaneños resided in the compound. Four bells were cast between 1796 and 1804,

Above: Mission San Juan Capistrano, plot plan, perspective view, circa 1936. The Historic American Buildings Survey. Right: Stone Church, roof over sanctuary, looking north, Photographed by Henry F. Withey, June 1936.

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and were used to summon parishioners to their daily duties. On December 8, 1812, the bells tolled, calling the faithful to the early morning mass. During the service, an earthquake shook. The mortar in the church walls failed, the bell tower swayed and collapsed. Forty people, including two children, died. According to Mission records, the victims were predominantly women: 25 married, four widows, two single. The male dead included four married, three single, and one child. A few months later, the husband of one of the victims, “lost his reason from either fright or grief,” according to a contemporaneous report. “His lifeless body was found in the woods (en el bosque) and buried in the cemetery on May 8, 1813.” Some 2,000 Juaneños are now buried there.

Serra Chapel interior, Mission San Juan Capistrano. Photographed by Henry F. Withey, June 1936. The 1788 Serra Chapel is the only remaining California Mission Church where Father Serra is known to have celebrated sacraments.

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The Great Stone Church was never rebuilt. In 1812, the rate of Juaneños who died surpassed the amount of those who were baptized. By 1834, the Juaneño population had declined to about 800. The Great Stone Church ruins have been stabilized and preserved over the decades, including a 17-year, $9.6-million restoration project completed in 2004. Steel rods and pins hold walls together, and a steel buttress was installed inside the vestry to reinforce its dome. Low stone walls were built to show how far the original structure once reached. Today, Mission San Juan Capistrano is a destination for the devoted, the architecturally inspired, and the historically intrigued, as well as thousands of school children on field trips. When walking the ruins of the Great Stone Church, take time to remember those who built it, and those who perished when it fell.

Top and right: Drawings and photos of doorways from sacred garden to padre’s house and to sacristy, circa 1936. The Historic American Buildings Survey.

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Today, Mission San Juan Capistrano is a serene, sacred, and beautiful place that is revered by locals and draws people from around the world. Known as the Jewel of the Missions, it is the best-known and most-visited of the California Missions. Photos by Brett Hillyard

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Blue Door Magazine visited the Mission San Juan Capistrano for a photo shoot by Brett Hillyard. Susannah Jennings and Ava Wiadro joined the Blue Door crew, modeling the Canyon midi linen dress from Vitamin A. BlueDoorMagazine.com

To make a donation to future Mission San Juan Capistrano preservation projects, please visitmissionsjc.com/donate. The Mission Preservation Foundation Board of Directors is committed to raising funds for specialized and comprehensive preservation work to ensure that Mission San Juan Capistrano remains the most significant historic site in Orange County. To become a part of the Mission Preservation Foundation, contact: Mechelle Lawrence-Adams, Executive Director, 949.234.1311 mlawrence-adams@missionsjc.com

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Success Story PIRCH debuts newest showroom in Mission Viejo By Annette Reeves

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In a time when things seem uncertain as the world emerges from a two-year pandemic resulting in product delays and labor shortages, there’s one retailer in Southern California that is experiencing dramatic growth and success while providing the service and commitment to the home remodeling and building industry that it deserves. PIRCH has come to be known as the leader in the marketplace for high-quality products, services, and knowledgeable salespeople. As its popularity grows, so do its sales, allowing PIRCH to expand into the marketplace through luxury and sophisticated retail locations. Most recently, PIRCH unveiled its newest location in Mission Viejo, directly off Interstate 5 Freeway at Avery and Marguerite Parkway. With plenty of parking and an approximate 25,000-square-foot location complete with an outdoor space where live cooking events will take place, the location boasts a lavish barista station at the front door with hand-crafted lattes served from a bright-red La Marzocca espresso machine. While still putting some finishing touches on PHOTOS BY GREG SIMS

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Opposite: The entry of the PIRCH Mission Viejo store features a complete Viking Appliance vignette offering a Waterworks Regulator faucet and all the accompanying appliances for a perfect kitchen. Left: PIRCH prides itself on offering unique and different plumbing manufacturers like Italian-based Gessi with dramatic spa shower systems, full furniture line of vanities, and tubs and unique finish selections. Below: The Nathie Katzoff “OctoBath” is a hand-made mahogany tub that can only be seen in California at at PIRCH.

the store, the Mission Viejo store will eventually host a full working kitchen like its sister locations with full-time chefs available for questions and cooking demonstrations. Take a sharp right at the front door and you land in a beautiful Viking kitchen vignette with custom cabinetry and a Waterworks Regulator faucet. A quick left and you’re staring at the recently launched Waterstone Argonaut Bath Suite, which only PIRCH will showcase for several months as a testimony to their high-volume sales of this Temecula-based kitchen and bath plumbing manufacturer. “We’ve managed our marketing, our merchandising, and our sales strategy just right in this market. We aren’t growing too fast, but we are certainly taking advantage of a time when the building industry is strong, and it demands and expects the level of service and expertise that only PIRCH can provide,” says Steve Smith, CEO of PIRCH. Smith, who comes from a merchandising background as former Senior Vice President Merchandising of Home Depot, has made great strides at PIRCH by greatly expanding the breadth of products that PIRCH had historically carried. The Mission Viejo store displays a full Waterworks display of Heritage and Studio products, complete Dornbracht collections, and the newest offerings from Kallista, Rohl, Newport Brass, California Faucets and Graff. In the front window is a Nathie Katzoff “OctoBath” adorned with bronze serpents surrounding its shape. The handmade mahogany work-of-art tub is one of five made in the world and can only be seen at PIRCH in all of California. That’s where PIRCH feels it is now separating itself from the pack. With each vignette individually designed to highlight the manufacturer, the custom display racks BlueDoorMagazine.com

and signage, and lighting placed in key positions, the mission is to provide a luxury experience with luxury products. “Certainly, we offer affordable products, but we also want to be able to service the client who wants something unique and handcrafted that no one else has and no one else can buy,” says Bobby Dean, Merchant for Plumbing and Hardware at PIRCH.

Top and above: PIRCH’s broad spectrum of tub, sink, and fixture manufacturers gives clients a wide range of choices. Above, right; The sophisticated style in which PIRCH displays each manufacturer gives clients the ability to visualize how appliances will look and function in their homes.

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The Mission Viejo location is laid out with its plumbing displays on the left. The ever-popular “live” showerhead and tub room is in the far-left corner where customers can push buttons and feel the cool spray of a 12-inch ceiling rain head or the flow of a wallmount tub spout. In the corner, an MR Walls Custom Shower display shows off the beautiful designs that the Santa Monica-based company can create indoors, outdoors, and in any shape or pattern. Multiple tubs fill the space including the 74-inch MTI Cascara Solid Surface Stone tub and the TOTO Flotation tub, the first zero-gravity tub ever created. Dream rooms are dispersed throughout the store where clients and their sales advisors can roll out floor plans, look at images on big screen televisions, and design their kitchen, bath, and outdoor spaces in privacy.

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This leather-wrapped Jennair column refrigerator is beautiful both inside and out, and a perfect example of the unique offerings at PIRCH.

At the right of the store are the kitchen vignettes complete with a brilliant pink La Cornue leather-wrapped Jennair refrigerator, German-engineered Gaggeneau kitchen, and two adjoining Wolf and Subzero kitchen vignettes. Sprinkled in between are many other brands like Electrolux, Bosch, Fisher Paykel, and Italian-based Bertazzoni. Laundry units, freestanding refrigerators, dishwashers, and banks of wall ovens fill all the additional spaces. Most unique to the Mission Viejo store is the expansive hardware collection placed smack in the middle of the showroom. Featuring all the best and popular from Emtek to Ashley Norton, Rocky Mountain, to the coveted and luxurious Turnstyle and Armac Martin, PIRCH took their hardware to a whole other level featuring walls of door hardware and dozens of collections and finishes to choose from. “Everyone needs hardware, everyone. We open our cabinets and drawers and enter our houses every day with hardware so why wouldn’t that be a product that we should focus on and offer our clients every single day?” Smith says. Some would ask why PIRCH would build a store in Mission Viejo when the incredibly successful Costa Mesa location is 25 minutes north, the Laguna Design Center location is only minutes away, and Cedros covers mid-San Diego County. With interest rates low and remodeling at a high, the market has seen a major increase in building permits and construction especially with COVID, when

homeowners were stuck at home focusing on what improvements needed to be completed. PIRCH believes there’s a demand and that demographically Mission Viejo fills the gap. Will Dillard, Chief Operating Officer, sees Mission Viejo as the location that draws clients from northern San Diego, Ladera Ranch, San Clemente and San Juan, the Inland Empire, Riverside, and even Laguna. “For some it’s an easier commute, for some it’s new and different. We want to be able to serve every area as easily as we can so that when anyone thinks plumbing, appliances, outdoor, and hardware, they think PIRCH and they come to our stores,” he says. Just like that grand coffee machine at the front of the store, there’s a lot more brewing at PIRCH. As they continue to expand and strengthen their relationships with manufacturers and distributors, who once saw them as a small piece of the industry puzzle, their reach and influence is expanding just as quickly. Conservative, steady, and planned growth is key but broadening their horizons, as well as taking their experience and expertise to new markets is certainly a desire for the corporation. As Smith explains, “Our industry partners want us to grow, our clients want us to grow, they like how we do things, we are honest, we are professional, and we take care of our customers. That is the right way and that is the PIRCH way.” PIRCH 28341 Marguerite Parkway Mission Viejo 949.220.0656 pirch.com/showrooms/mission-viejo BlueDoorMagazine.com

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A Better Way in the Kitchen The Galley Culinary System at PIRCH By Annette Reeves

The kitchen is the heart of the home—where friends, family, and loved ones gather to break bread, share stories, and make memories. The Galley Ideal Kitchen Workstation and its Culinary Tools has reinvented the way people work in their kitchens. Simply put, The Galley Culinary System is A Better Way® to prepare, cook, serve, entertain, and clean, all in one central and convenient location. As the Ideal Workstation serves its purpose for preparing, chopping, rinsing, drying, and more, its availability at a staggering maximum standard size of 84 inches allows up to three people access to multiple areas, working together to create meals and interact with one another. The Galley offers a variety of accessories, like cutting boards, colanders, mixing bowls, and serving boards. The Workstation consists of a two-tiered, 316-liter stainless steel basin that allows the Culinary Tools to slide swiftly above and below the other as you work. As some may not have 84 inches of space to work with, The Galley offers the Workstations in a variety of standard and custom lengths and even corner configurations to fit any space. 72

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The Galley Ideal Kitchen Workstation available at PIRCH.

Once chopping and drying are complete, the Galley Workstation can transform into a serving space fit for any occasion, indoor or outdoor. Consider taco night at your Workstation with all accoutrements prepared and staged, ready for the family to enjoy a delicious meal together. In addition to the Ideal Workstation, The Galley has developed a line of kitchen taps and tap accessories for the workstation that include bar taps, hot and cold taps, pot-fillers, soap dispensers, and more, giving homeowners an entire suite of products to choose from in a wide array of popular, state-of-the-art finishes. thegalley.com PHOTOS BY GREG SIMS

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Desert Design Moya Living brings color to an Indian Wells oasis The Indian Wells showhouse called “Desert Oasis” offered colors one might not expect, thanks to its modern Polynesian aesthetic. Homeowners tend to have more freedom in color choices outside than in, which is where Moya O’Neill paired Hestan appliances in a Citra orange with Moya Living’s stainless steel cabinets. The cabinets have a baked-on, fine-textured finish of architectural bronze II. The colors complement each other beautifuly, and the outdoor living space plays off the interiors of this one-of-a-kind home.

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BLUE DOOR MAGAZINE MEMBERS INSPIRE WITH INSIGHTS AND INSIDER INFO FROM THEIR LIVES ALONG THE ORANGE COUNTY COAST Photos by Brett Hillyard

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KENNY EGGMANN If I didn’t surf, I don’t know what I would do. Surfing has played a foundational role in my life. With its endless waves and possibilities for growth and development, surfing has given me strength and resilience in the face of even the toughest challenges. Each surfing session offers me a new way to define myself. Every wave is different, no swell is the same, which only adds to the excitement and challenge of surfing. It’s pushed me to try new things, and test my limits, The sport has taught me how to stay calm under pressure and how to make quick decisions. These skills have driven me to succeed in everything from my career in real estate to other endeavors outside of surfing. The ocean is a place of peace and power and I’m grateful for the lessons it has brought me.

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton

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JEANNIE DENHOLM Artists expose us to our world through different lenses. And for that I’m forever inspired and grateful. My motivation to own a gallery in this community has always been to share this inspiration and experience with others via exhibitions, special events, and daily conversations. As SCAPE gallery heads into its 20th anniversary in 2023, what I continue to hold most dear are my relationships with an invigorating array of artists, supportive clients, and Southern California’s thriving art community. Paintings by Jeff Peters

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MICHAEL BALLIET As a longtime resident of Laguna Beach, I love the opportunity to come to this particular beach—with my back to the ocean—and admire the architectural and design styles that our community has to offer. Coming off the heels of multiple landmark residential property sales in Laguna Beach, our team understands how to bring our proven six-star concierge approach to my local community. With one graduate of LBHS and one currently attending, our family is passionate about the community and personifies living the coastal lifestyle.”

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PAUL DAFTARIAN I have lived in Coastal Orange County nearly my entire life and I’ve witnessed first-hand how the county and my favorite communities have grown and flourished. It’s a dream place to live, work, and raise a family. I have the privilege to live the lifestyle we get to sell. My wife Lili and I set out to create a concierge real estate advisory business that delivers the highest level of service and client experience, often with market record prices. That way, we create clients for life. We can do that thanks to our entire team thinking and working the exact same way, which is always putting the client first and doing whatever it takes to exceed their expectations. Keeping clients happy and exceeding expectations is our mission. BlueDoorMagazine.com

795 St. Ann’s Drive | Laguna Beach Offered at $3,795,000 Offering two detached single family homes (and an attached studio!) on one corner parcel - for the price of one single family home, the property at 795 St. Ann’s allows for incredible flexibility. Located just blocks from some of the world’s best beaches in a coveted central location, this unique property can be used in a multitude of ways. Purchase as an owner occupied compound, vacation home with rental opportunity, or simply as an investment property in Laguna Beach.

25 Vantis Drive | Aliso Viejo Offered at $1,340,000 Live at least two steps above the ordinary at 25 Vantis in Aliso Viejo. With a thorough re-fresh of this amazing live/work property just completed, the new owner will enjoy luxurious touches added to meet the seller’s high standards. Although the property has tremendous flexibility with the lower level commercial area, it is the spacious and centrally located living quarters that are the draw - this is a quality home.

Mike Johnson

Nick Hooper

DRE 01429647

DRE 019620121

Paulo Prietto

Sylvia Ames

DRE 01878796

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Kristine Flynn

Inge Bunn

DRE 02063127

DRE 00641176

Andrew Graff

Lilly Tabrizi

DRE 02024856

DRE 02107169

949.207.3735 mikejohnsongroup.com

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867 Acapulco Street | Laguna Beach Just Sold - Represented Seller

32 Pheasant Lane | Aliso Viejo Just Sold | Represented Seller

844 Quivera Street | Laguna Beach

2929 Alta Laguna Blvd | Laguna Beach

Just Sold | Represented Buyer

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9902 Rangeview Drive | Cowan Heights Peppertree Canyon - A Winery Estate

Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. *All numbers given for vine vineyard, olive trees, and frut trees are approximate numbers.*

Come home to wine country in the heart of Orange County.

6 BEDROOM | 6.5 BATHROOM | 3.9 ACRES | 9,226 SF

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REFRESH AND RELAX. You deserve a stress-free experience when selling your home.

Leo always tries his hardest to go above and beyond. I have known Leo now for many years and he has helped our family for many years here in the coastal marketplace. Leo always tries his hardest to go above and beyond to make a deal happen while ensuring the satisfaction of his clients. He’s not afraid to do the extra steps nor go outside the box in order to get a deal together.

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— A & D N, Laguna Beach

Leo is the best of the best. I have worked with brokers in the coastal market over the last 30 years and if you are buyer he will fight for the best possible price on the home and when selling he will go over and above the call of duty to get you the highest return on your investment possible, I have been impressed how he is always trying to protect your equity regardless of the side he is representing! — Rick G, Laguna Beach

HARD WORKING Boy did he deliver! I was selling what I consider a trophy property. I interviewed many as the property was special. Each came and gave their presentation but having a sales background I didn’t see that spark in their eye. Enter Leo!! From the moment I met him I knew he was the one. I gave him the listing and boy did he deliver. Within 30 days we had a qualified buyer who closed as scheduled. I have dealt in many high dollar real estate transactions and would rate Leo at the top. If you want the best , look no further. — Roger H, Newport

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DEDICATED The choice was obvious. Embarking on the journey of whether to sell our home or not and who to call the choice was obvious after our interviews with other brokers in the Corona Del Mar area. Leo saw the vision with our home, realized its true value and even put his own money in to bring the property up to a saleable condition! By him believing in our property and having the vision, we exceeded the other brokers expectations by over 2 million dollars!! 100% this is you guy without a doubt!! — T & A O, Corona Del Mar

COMMUNICATIVE We lucked out with Leo and had our offer accepted on our first home viewing! During the escrow Leo was extremely respectful and responsive to our request. Leo is definitely a helpful and knowledgeable realtor for the southern orange county coastal area! — J . S, Laguna Beach

When I need real estate help in OC, I turn to Leo! Leo is punctual, responsible and overly communicative. I’ve found that when it comes to brokers the ones always over communicate with their clients. If you want a broker that will go above and beyond the extra mile, I highly recommend engaging Leo. You’ll be glad you did! — KC, Dallas, TX

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HIGH | CORKETT

4601 CAMDEN DRIVE Corona del Mar | $27,995,000 | 4601CamdenDr.com Stunning Estate with Magnificent Ocean Views | Rare Opportunity 2 Adjoining Lots | Beachside home with gorgeous gardens and park setting This magnificent estate sits in the prestigious community of Cameo Shores. It has more than a half-acre of unobstructed views of Catalina, the Newport Jetty, and the California coastline. One enters a private courtyard of manicured gardens, a saltwater pool & spa, and, for entertaining, a beautiful fireplace of limestone masonry. The Mediterranean architecture boasts the finest of materials, limestone masonry, gorgeous wood fl oors, beams, and windows. The open fl oor plan on the main level consists of a master suite with Venetian textured walls overlooking the Pacific Ocean. This fl oor plan incorporates an oversized chef’s kitchen, featuring top-of-the-line stainless steel appliances and a fireplace/pizza oven.The custom residence of nearly 6900 sq ft offers The main fl oor’s vaulted ceilings and pocket doors to provide an entry to an ocean-view terrace with a superabundance of light and soft ocean breezes. The garden level has two master-sized suites that open onto beautifully landscaped gardens. This lower level provides a superb entertaining space with a large family /media room and a full bar that overlooks the saltwater pool. The estate’s majestic gardens are planted with citrus, olive, and melaleuca trees, along with spreads of lavender, plus a beautiful mature rose garden. This is a one-of-a-kind private oasis that exudes serenity. A must-see property of pure magic.

STEVE HIGH

949 874 4724 shigh@villarealestate.com @high_corkett DRE No. 00936421

EVAN CORKETT

949 285 1055 ecorkett@villarealestate.com @high_corkett DRE No. 00468496

JON FLAGG

113 VIA LIDO SOUD Newport Beach | $9,495,000

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2215 HEATHER LANE Newport Beach | $3,849,000

JON FLAGG

949 698 1910 jﬂagg@villarealestate.com jonﬂagg.com JonFlaggRealEstateServices @JonFlaggHomes DRE No. 01316048

KYLE FLAGG

In Association with Jon Flagg DRE No. 02095991

JON FLAGG 2022 SALES

820 VIA LIDO NORD | SOLD Lido Isle | Listed at $15,995,000 Represented Seller

333 VIA LIDO SOUD | SOLD Lido Isle | Listed at $12,500,000 Represented Seller | Oﬀ -market

213 VIA LIDO SOUD | SOLD Lido Isle | Listed at $8,495,000 Represented Seller

642 VIA LIDO NORD | SOLD Lido Isle | Listed at $7,995,000 Represented Seller

921 & 925 VIA LIDO SOUD | SOLD Record Breaking Lido Isle Sale Represented Buyer | Oﬀ-market

2592 CIRCLE DRIVE | SOLD Newport Beach | Listed at $6,995,000 Represented Buyer

18 SAN SEBASTIAN | SOLD Newport Beach | Listed at $4,495,000 Represented Seller

Lido Isle | Listed at $3,795,00 Represented Seller

225 VIA ORVIETO | SOLD

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ADDRESS

220 VIA KORON | SOLD Lido Isle | Listed at $3,795,000 Represented Seller

8 ATOLL | SOLD Corona del Mar | Listed at $2,450,000 Represented Buyer

JON FLAGG

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33791 Captains Ln #226

Dana Point

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$999,000

111 D101 S Coast Dr #7

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207 Via Ithaca

Lido Isle

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214 Via San Remo

Lido Isle

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Oﬀ-market

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TIM CARR GROUP

218 EVENING STAR LANE | NEW LISTING Dover Shores | $9,750,000 | 218EveningStar.com 218 Evening Star Lane is a recently remodeled resort-style residence sited on a large lot with 60’ of bay frontage in the sought-after Dover Shores neighborhood. Spanning approximately 4,500 square feet, this home features 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, multiple fireplaces, and a rare four-car garage. The upper-level living area takes advantage of the incredible water views with an oversize living area, a dining room large enough to seat twelve and a climate-controlled 500-bottle wine closet. The adjacent kitchen is equipped with Italian marble countertops, Viking and Subzero appliances and a built-in eat-in area. The second level also features the expansive primary bedroom suite with a large balcony and outdoor spa. The primary bathroom has been recently remodeled, with spa-inspired touches such as exotic stone backlit counter tops. This home is perfect for enjoying the indoor-outdoor California lifestyle on the bayside patios as well as the upper deck ideal for entertaining. Recent upgrades include interior and exterior repainting, new fl ooring throughout, a custom entry door, spiral staircase and epoxy coated garage fl oors. 218 Evening Star Lane is located towards the end of a quiet cul-de-sac and offers proximity to Newport Aquatic Center as well as the three private beaches, exclusive to the Dover Shores homeowner association’s residents.

TIM CARR

TIM CARR GROUP 949 631 9999 tci@timcarrgroup.com timcarrgroup.com @timcarrgroup DRE No. 01017277

CHRIS MADDY

TIM CARR GROUP 949 294 5408 chris@timcarrgroup.com chrismaddy.com DRE No. 01946797

KYLA JOHNS

TIM CARR GROUP 714 609 7063 kyla@timcarrgroup.com kylajohns.com @kylajohnshomes DRE No. 01946236

First opening its doors on the prestigious corner of Sunset Blvd. and Sunset Plaza Dr., The Oppenheim Group has done $2B+ in total sales and is the preeminent brokerage in the Hollywood Hills and Sunset Strip with unrivaled experience and market knowledge, while doing tremendous business throughout Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Bel Air, Malibu and beyond. The Oppenheim Group has expanded to Orange County with a new office in exclusive Corona Del Mar and has already produced over $140 million in sales volume since first opening its doors in Spring 2021.

BRIAN FURSTENFELD R E A LTO R A S S O C I AT E

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“Brian helped me navigate the purchase and sale of 2 off-market transactions this past year in Corona Del Mar. I realized over a 250% return on my initial capital invested, and I am actively pursuing a 3rd property with him. His local market knowledge and terrific instincts have consistently guided me through excellent outcomes. I appreciate his savvy from being a 20 year veteran, and value him tremendously as my real estate professional resource.” - Nick H., esq., Corona Del Mar

BRIAN FURSTENFELD REALTOR ASSOCIATE

With over 25 years of experience as a real estate principal, manager, and broker, Brian Furstenfeld has been actively involved in both personal projects and countless real estate transactions on behalf of clients and investors. He specializes in selling high-end spec homes and locating off market opportunities for sbuyers in Coastal Orange County.

O G R O U P.C O M 3140 East Coast Hwy. | Newport Beach. CA 92625

309 POINSETTIA AVE CORONA DEL MAR | $5,795,000

KENNY EGGMANN

949.342.0142 Kenny@kennyeggmann.com KennyEggmann.com CaIRE # 01969140

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JACQUELINE THOMPSON Group DE L IV E R S R E SU LTS

OV E R $ 1 . 7 BI LLI O N in Career Sales* · OVER $1 BIL L ION SOLD in Shady Canyon ®**

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LIVE HERE · 20 BL ACK FALCON · SHADY CANYON Price Upon Request · 6 Beds · 10 Baths · ~10,934 Sq. Ft. · 2 0 B l a c k Fa l c o n .c o m This legacy Shady Canyon custom estate is perched on one of the most coveted, private lots, encompassing the entire end of a cul-de-sac on a peak that offers breathtaking views of city lights, mountains, golf course, rolling green hills, and ocean. This six bedroom, ten bath home features approximately 10,934 square feet on three levels with a main-level junior master suite, game room, home theater, wine cellar, and massive garage.

Surterre Properties®, Inc. does not guarantee accuracy of all data, including all measurements and calculations of area. Information is obtained from various sources and has not been, and will not be, verified by Broker or Agent of MLS. All information should be independently reviewed and verified for accuracy. Surterre Properties DRE#01778230 Jacqueline Thompson achieved over $1.7 billion in total home sale transactions based on MLS and non-MLS data combined 01/01/08 - 05/09/22. ** This representation is based on MLS and non-MLS data as of 05/09/22.

MEITAL TAUB L

949.922.9552

REALTOR® | Lic# 01871040

$13,995,000 JUST LISTED

$2,495,000

31901 National Park | Laguna Niguel 31901NationalPark.com

31987 Coast Hwy | Laguna Beach 31987CoastHwy.com

$7,995,000

687 Thalia | Laguna Beach 687Thalia.com

2482 Glenneyre | Laguna Beach $3,695,000 2482Glenneyre.com IN ESCROW

Than the market average2

1091 La Mirada | Laguna Beach

31602 Santa Rosa | Laguna Beach 31602SantaRosa.com

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400 Ashton | Laguna Beach

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589 Brooks | Laguna Beach 589BrooksSt.com

$2,950,000 IN ESCROW

$2,695,000

$2,195,000 IN ESCROW

10252 Sunrise Ln | North Tustin Highest Price Home Sold in North Orange County1

$2,880,000

336 Y Pl & 338 Y Pl | Laguna Beach 336YPlace-338YPlace.com

$3,995,000 NEW PRICE

1184 Skyline | Laguna Beach 1184Skyline.com

$2,495,000 IN ESCROW

$15,880,000

856 Diamond | Laguna Beach $5,995,000 SOLD OVER ASKING PRICE IN 9 DAYS

Thank you Meital for your top notch service to assist us to sell our house. You and your team are the best in the business. business You took a personal interest and were always ready to answer any questions. Your knowledge in real estate is readily noticeable as you directed the sale of our house seamlessly. - Walter F.

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List price compared to the market average2

1 Based on information from CRMLS/Association of REALTORS®, as of 04/5/2022 for CA cities Anaheim, Anaheim Hills, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Cowan Heights, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, La Habra, La Mirada, La Palma, Los Alamitos, Midway City, North Tustin, Orange, Orange Park Acres, Placentia, Rossmoor, Santa Ana, Santa Ana Heights, Seal Beach, Stanton, Tustin, Villa Park, Westminster, Yorba Linda. 2Based on information from CRMLS/Association of REALTORS®, 12 months prior to 4/28/22 for Laguna Beach, CA. This representation is based on information from California Regional Multiple Listing Service Association of REALTORS®, as of 05/02/2022. Display of MLS data is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed accurate by the MLS. The Broker/Agent providing the information contained herein may or may not have been the Listing and/or Selling Agent. © First Team® Real Estate. All rights reserved. This is not intended to solicit a listed property. If your property is currently listed for sale with a broker, please disregard. 72498

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NEWPORT COAST | $3,189,000 5SUNDIAL.COM

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NEWPORT COAST | $1,249,000 50VIAAMANTI.COM

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ESTATE OF GRACE By Alexandria Abramian

A sprawling Laguna Niguel property commands attention from its eight-figure, bluff-top position

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With more than 13 planted acres, the property is one of the largest estates in all of Orange County. And the home fittingly comes with its share of boast-able stats: A 500-foot driveway with circular motor court; 95 solar panels; 20 skylights; an 8-car garage. Then there’s the not-inconsiderable 14,500 square feet of living space inside the ultra-contemporary compound. “This house has trails, a vineyard, and its blufftop location means you also have the panoramic ocean, city, and hill views,” says listing agent John Stanaland of the John Stanaland Group. “It’s exceptional in all ways.” The Laguna Niguel location also makes it a standout. “The area is starting to see huge appreciation and is catching up with Orange County’s two other most expensive areas, Newport Beach and Laguna Beach,” says Stanaland. “I sold a home in Laguna Niguel two and a half years ago that will easily sell in the high teens today. Dana Point is another area that is quickly catching up as well. I just sold a home there for $20 million that was the highest sale ever in Monarch Bay record. I held the record for 48 hours before another agent closed on a home for $33 million!” Listed at $50 million, this home has the potential to take Stanaland, a fifth-generation resident of Orange County, back to gold metal status. 110

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Wow Factor: The 14,500-squarefoot home makes an unforgettable first impression where an award-winning 18-foot iron and glass pivot front door leads to an art-filled foyer. Upper left: Stairs connect levels of more than 13 planted acres.

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Designed by architect Stan Schrofer and built in 2014, the home is in many ways tailor-made for a post-pandemic world: “A lot of people now want bigger homes and more privacy and a lot of the upper end of the buyer pool wants things that are more unique,” says Stanaland, noting that scarcity is also at work. “In general, there are not many of these very unique homes, then add to that the fact that inventory is at an all-time historic low. At this time last year there were 4,500 homes on the market. Two days ago, it was under 1,000.” With in-home luxuries like a gym, movie theater, game room, and infrared sauna, the house also has size and scale for large-scale, indoor/outdoor living and entertaining. The six-bedroom, 10-bathroom estate, which was designed in collaboration by David Phoenix and Newfield Design, has grand

Above: An expansive game room includes new and vintage collectors’ arcade games while featuring expansive ocean views. Right: A chef’s kitchen includes one of 20 skylights found throughout the home.

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Perched high up on a secluded hilltop, the sprawling estate looks onto ocean views that span from Laguna to La Jolla from almost every room.

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lines and soaring spaces throughout, starting with the entrance, where an 18-foot iron and glass door pivots into a sprawling foyer. Oversized Fleetwood glass windows are trained to the ocean views, while the outdoor areas include 2,500 square feet of decking and a BBQ area with a full kitchenette. Other nextlevel amenities practically preclude the need for five-star resort travel: There’s a negative-edge pool with Baja shelf and glass bridge to the pool’s fire pit that seats 25, a grand spa, waterfalls, and not one but two putting greens. “This home has everything the ultrahigh-end buyer wants: It’s secluded and gated, has the views and, of course, the acreage,” says Stanaland. “It has definitely got the wow factor.” John Stanaland Group 1833 S Coast Highway #210 Laguna Beach 949.689.9047 johnstanaland.com Newfield Design 20955 Pathfinder Road #100 Diamond Bar, California 909.760.8566 newfielddesign.com

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Sue Capelli defines the complete custom design experience. For over 25 years Sue has transformed spaces and helped people build their dream homes. S u e ’s e x t e n s i v e s c o p e i n c l u d e s i n t e r i o r d e s i g n a l o n g with custom design pieces, business development and product management.

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Situated within the exclusive El Dorado Estates, Design Collaborative USA’s showhouse Desert Oasis was originally designed in 1978 by Architect John Walling as a personal tribute to classic mid-century design. Today the home presents a new era of showcase houses.

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DESERT SHOWSTOPPER By Alexandria Abramian

An Indian Wells midcentury moves into the spotlight with a brandnew take on the showcase concept

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Desert Oasis doesn’t play by the typical showcase home rule book. For starters, the home designed by architect John Walling is not a spec project. Instead, the homeowner of the 4,350-square-foot Coachella Valley midcentury with soaring roof lines and natural rock-covered walls brought a distinctive vision for the project—one that involved design inspiration that included a South Pacific/Polynesian/ Hawaii vibe, with a touch of tiki. And it may be exactly those parameters that led to the creation of such a standout collaborative home, according to Karen Okner, President of Design Collaborative and showhouse producer. “The owner had his own very distinctive aesthetic,” she says. “In many ways, those parameters provided a great source of creativity for the designers.” Lead designer Michael Berman of Michael Berman Limited designed the living, dining, and bar spaces, while overseeing the entire project. “I worked as the conduit between the owner and the designers,” says Berman of the group of all-star interior designers

Above: Many of the items found in the home were sourced from the owner’s trove of vintage collectibles. Opposite: Lead designer Michael Berman, of Michael Berman Limited, designed the dining room, bar area and living room, which includes a mix of vintage bamboo Paul Frankl chairs, Berman’s “Crescent” sofa and custom designed rug by The Rug Company.

PALETTE PLAYER “Key to the entire home concept was creating a unified color palette,” says lead designer Michael Berman, who discovered a trove of the owner’s Polynesian menus that came from transatlantic luxury ships in the 1930s and 1940s. Selecting the art on one of the menus, Berman transformed it to become a dining room mural that would do double-duty as a palette for the rest of the home. “We had them printed on a unexpected material, porcelain tile printed by PlanIt Printworks. That beautiful, saturated color is impregnated into the tile and became the palette for the rest of the house.”

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Chris Barrett, Shannon Palmer, Jennifer Samson, Huma Sulaiman, Jenika Kurtz, Donna Johnson, Linda Allen, and Maya Williams. PIRCH, a leading retailer of luxury kitchen, bathroom, and outdoor appliances and fixtures, was the project’s premier sponsor, providing the core appliances, water fixtures, and hardware throughout the kitchen, bathroom, and outdoor areas of the show house. And while creating a cohesive home that would honor the specific requests was the goal, Berman also ensured that each designer’s unique vision could shine. “We wanted to do something original but have our own imprint on it,” he says. “That’s a really cool challenge.” Designers rose to that challenge in a variety of ways.

Designer Shannon Palmer created a Palm Springs-meets-Polynesia feel in the family room. Included are a custom sectional and “Agave Red Edge” rug (manufactured by The Rug Company), both from Shannon Design Inc, as well as a Circa chandelier/fan and many vintage elements. All hardware from Du Verre by PIRCH.

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Above: Designed by Donna Johnson, the kitchen features show-stopping cabinetry by Classic Cupboards, Inc. “I chose monkey pod for the species of wood. Monkey Pod can be found in regions of Hawaii and is an exotic wood with a distinctive pattern,” says Johnson. Sub-Zero, Wolf and Cove appliances all provided by Pirch, which also provided Du Verre hardware, Rohl sink and faucet as well as the Zip Water faucet. Countertops by Caesarstone and Dal Tile. Textured porcelain backsplash provided by Walker Zanger. Right: In the laundry room, designer Linda Allen created her own take on Polynesian chic with Alfred Shaheen’s Ebb Tide wallpaper by Brenda Houston paired with a sea urchin lighting fixture from Circa Lighting. Maytag appliances, Allia sink and Brizo faucet all provided by Pirch. Floor tiles by Tiki Tiles.

Linda Allen wove a mix of whimsy and function to the laundry room. “If you’re doing laundry, it might as well be fun. Or if it can’t be fun, you might as well be surrounded with iconic fish by legendary Alfred Shaheen,” says Allen, who used tiki-inspired tiles by Teaki Tiles in both the powder and laundry rooms. “But the fish need to be in water, right? And there’s water in the washing machine. So, I connected the two, and decided if you’re going to do laundry surrounded by Alfred Shaheen’s Ebb Tide fish by Brenda Houston, then it makes sense to give the illusion of being submerged in water surrounded by fish.,” she adds.

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Designer Chris Barrett created a captivating and soothing primary suite. She combined an exotic and masculine mix that includes a paisley wallcovering by Galbraith + Paul from Thomas Lavin and a large rug by Chris Barrett for Mansour Modern.

Chris Barrett, principal of Chris Barrett Design, took a contemplative approach to the master suite with a soothing mix of materials and elements. “In keeping with the client’s love of all things Polynesian, we created a natural, cozy environment,” says Barrett, who integrated pieces such as the owner’s 16-foot rustic canoe. “Enveloping the walls in grass cloth and using a stylized paisley wallpaper gives it a bit of an exotic flare, while remaining a strong, masculine space.” Other spaces found inspiration in the homeowner’s 10,000-square-foot trove of collectibles. “It’s a warehouse of wonders. If you want vintage sports memorabilia, art deco juke boxes, midcentury mannequins, Paul

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Sculpture by Micaela Amato and painting by Thomas Nozkowski create a inspired vignette in the primary suite and are available for purchase at Heather James Fine Art.

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ART STARS “The house has a definite midcentury vibe so we wanted to respect that,” says Chip Tom, Senior Curator for Heather James Fine Art. “At the same time, you don’t want to overdo it. If you have a midcentury house, people often put in midcentury furniture. We could have also put in art of that same period but then it can start to get to be a really period piece. Instead, we worked with the designers and our inventory to find pieces that work color-wise and complement the spaces. In the primary bedroom, we selected this piece by Seth Kauffman. It’s so perfect because the house and the bedroom have an indoor/outdoor feel and this sculpture connects to that: It’s made out of bronze but is cast from real trees, so it’s growing like a tree but is manipulated by the artist.” The bedroom’s sitting area is anchored by pieces by Cindy Sherman and Seth Kauffman, on exhibit and available for purchase at Heather James Fine Art. PHOTOS BY CHAD MELLON

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COUNTER INTELLIGENCE “For the outdoor kitchen, we created a circular pad as a complement to the circular pool spa and other concentric gestures on site,” says Ecocentrix founder and landscape architect John Feldman. “It aligns with the center point of the pool and with the fire pit sitting area on the other side. Our client requested that the orientation of the 13-foot-long cabinetry and adjacent dining table be on the bias within this circular paved pad. The idea was that when he manned the barbecue, he would have the most commanding view of the mountain peaks. The cabinetry by Moya Living is the highest-level construction and fabrication, and we were so fortunate to collaborate with the company’s founder Moya O’Neill on this piece. It features fantastic heavy-gauge stainless steel metal with custom powder-coated finishes.”

Designer Jen Samson created a Fijian-inspired guest bedroom by pairing new and vintage elements: A hand painted tapa cloth inspired wall mural by artist Ali Rybczy creates an exotic statement.

Feldman adds, “The cabinetry hosts great top-end accessories in appliances that were all made possible by our friends at PIRCH. Chris Barrett was particularly instrumental in the selection of these components and worked closely with the homeowner to make sure to accommodate his every whim.”

Frankel rattan chairs… It’s all there,” says Berman. Jen Samson spent an entire day exploring the owner’s tiki collectibles only to discover that “the vision for the JSD guest bedroom and bathroom room came to life after falling in love with one of the homeowner’s vintage chalkware lamps. I immediately knew that the lamp, donning a near nude female figure draped in a coral sarong standing under a tree, would be the muse for our space. These two rooms are a collection of colorful and organic feminine shapes that come together to create a playful, midcentury inspired, modern Fijian-inspired enclave.” Berman says the warehouse was also the source for one of the home’s most iconic moments: The shark bar. “The owner said, ‘I’d love it if you can do something with this old shark head.’ He’s a pro surfer and Olympic swimmer who grew up in Malibu, so I thought about it and that night I dreamed about putting it mounted on the wall above the bar. I sketched it up at 3am and emailed it to him. I got a one-word response: ‘Exactly.’” 128

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“The circular shape of the pool really seemed to resolve certain nuanced geometries of the house…” says John Feldman, principal of Ecocentrix Landscape Architecture. “If you think of this water body as a placid ocean and skimmed a stone from its shoreline, you would get the ripple that becomes our concentric radial stairs and planting bands that echo the pool’s shape.” BlueDoorMagazine.com

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Installation view of Fashioning Masculinities at V&A, featuring Alessandro Michele for Gucci look worn by Harry Styles (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London (15).

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Masculinity has been a preoccupation of Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele, 49, since his very first gender fluid fashion collection to the catwalk in 2015. So it is fitting that Gucci is sponsoring Fashioning Masculinity: The Art of Menswear an exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum that displays and explores the artistry and diversity of masculine attire and appearance. The exhibition, open through November 6, 2022, explores how designers, models, and artists have constructed masculinity through the years, and the changing nature of what being a man means. Contemporary looks by legendary designers and rising stars are displayed alongside historical treasures from the V&A’s collections and landmark loans: classical sculptures, Renaissance paintings, iconic photographs, and powerful film and performance.

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Installation view of Fashioning Masculinities at V&A, featuring looks by Harris Reed, Thom Browne, and PRONOUNCE (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Fashioning Masculinities presents around 100 looks and 100 artworks, displayed thematically across three galleries, Undressed, Overdressed, and Redressed. Undressed explores the male body, looking at how classical European ideals of masculinity have been perpetuated and challenged over the centuries. Overdressed explores the elite masculine wardrobe, epitomized by oversized silhouettes, lavish materials like silks and velvet in daring colors, and symbolic patterns to express status, wealth, and individuality. Redressed includes paintings and extensive photography showing changing styles and attitudes, from Oscar Wilde, Claude Cahun, and Cecil Beaton to The Beatles Above: Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellamont (1738-1800), in Robes of the Order of the Bath, 1773-1774 Photo: © National Gallery of Ireland Opposite: Harris Reed Fluid Romanticism 001. Courtesy Harris Reed.Photo: Giovanni Corabi

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and Sam Smith. Robert Longo’s 1981 drawing from the series Men in the Cities will introduce the final part of the section about the dissolving of the suit, and how a new wave of fashion designers are slashing away at conventions, both for menswear and masculinity. Outfits worn by familiar faces will be interspersed throughout, from Harry Styles and Billy Porter to David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich. “This is a journey across time and gender,” say co-curators Claire Wilcox and Rosalind McKever. “The exhibition brings together historical and contemporary looks with art that reveals how masculinity has been performed. This is a celebration of the masculine wardrobe, and everyone is invited to join in.” 138

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V&M VITALS The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects. Its collections span over 5,000 years of human creativity in virtually every medium, housed in one of the finest groups of Victorian and modern buildings in Britain. The Museum holds many of the UK’s national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewelry, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theater, and performance. From its early beginnings as a Museum of Manufactures in 1852, to the foundation stone laid by Queen Victoria in 1899, to today’s state-of-the-art galleries, the Museum has constantly evolved in its collecting and public interpretation of art and design.

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear In partnership with Gucci, with support from American Express®. On display through November 6, 2022. Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 2RL +44 (0)20 7942 2000 vam.ac.uk

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Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear at the V&A Museum includes a design from the first collection of Harris Reed, a BritishAmerican designer born in California. The musem also features Reed’s designs in a free “Fashion in Motion” runway show. Reed rocketed to influence on the fashion scene after dressing singer Harry Styles, and has become known for pushing fashion in a gender-fluid and inclusive direction. Reed’s collections explore themes of performance, opulence, and self-expression. “Being a young queer creative, there could be no greater honour than having your work chosen to be represented in an establishment as respected as the V&A Museum,” Reed says. V&A has been hosting free-to-attend catwalk shows through its “Fashion in Motion” series for more than 20 years and has featured designers including Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix, Christopher Raeburn, Erdem, Gareth Pugh, Giles Deacon, Grace Wales Bonner, Holly Fulton, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jenny Packham, Yohji Yamamoto, Kenzo, Missoni, Molly Goddard, Roksanda Ilincic, and Vivienne Westwood. BlueDoorMagazine.com

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From the Agent: “Legacy properties like this rarely come to market. Situated on arguably one of the best lots in Shady Canyon, 20 Black Falcon features majestic city lights, snow capped mountains, golf course and ocean views. Located at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, this property is practically an island of its own.” JACQUELINE THOMPSON | 949.326.3392 JT@surterreproperties.com | JacquelineThompsonGroup.com | DRE#01476106 Surterre Properties® DRE#01778230 150

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FROM MY REAL ESTATE PAST By Don Abrams

As the saying goes... “Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” Don Abrams explains why...

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My love affair with houses began when I was 13. My parents bought a beach house at Standard Beach in Westbrook, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. My job for our first summer there was to renovate the home and furniture. I spent the entire summer painting walls, stripping woodwork, painting furniture, and building fences. I also did the gardening, lawn mowing, and hedge trimming. Doing this work built the connection I’ve had with homes ever since. Homes just talk to me the moment I enter them. The beach house was my happy place until the family sold it many years later. I had my first job at a hotel down the street, my first boat (a 16foot Thompson lapstrake), and my first kiss with the girl across the street. My next-door neighbor, a dentist, taught me how to fish and my friends at the beach taught me how to waterski.

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I attended college and law school in Washington, D.C., and while in law school I bought my first home for $25,000. I renovated the home and after a year, I sold it and bought another. I repeated the process six more times while in D.C., renovating and re-selling each home for a nice profit after a year or two. After law school, I worked in D.C. as an Assistant United States Attorney and then moved back to my home state of Connecticut as a Federal Organized Crime Strike Force Attorney. After I left the Justice Department, I helped run our family’s home furnishings business and moved to California where most of the business was located. I moved to Balboa Island in 1992, purchasing a Streamline Moderne home on the Grand Canal and enjoying the Island lifestyle. In 1998, a realtor I knew, Chuck Rumbold, was retiring and offered to sell me his business. I figured that selling homes was the perfect niche for a man with a law and business background who loved houses. And that’s what I’ve been doing for the last 23 years. I’ve sold about 400 homes on the Island and many homes throughout coastal Orange County. There’s nothing else I’d rather do.

The first home I bought in D.C. for $25,000 (photo from 2019 while visiting D.C. for my college reunion)

My First Balboa Island Home on the Grand Canal

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Jeannie Denholm, owner of Southern California Art Projects & Exhibitions (SCAPE) in Corona del Mar, welcomed artists, patrons, and guests for the debut of Las Piedras del Mar, an exhibition of recent work by Los Angelesbased artist Woods Davy. The artist is internationally recognized for his long-standing sculptural practice. He works with stones in natural, unaltered states collected from the sea or the earth, and assembles them into fluid and precarious sculptural combinations that seem to defy gravity and float like clouds. Las Piedras del Mar, which translates to Stones from the Sea, features selected sculptures from Davy’s “Cantamar” and “Dead Flowers” series as well as his “Smoke Drawings.”

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Burkhart Brothers Construction opened their new office after months of planning and construction. It’s like a home away from home, complete with a professional kitchen where Bryan and Mark Burkhart cook, uncork wine from their collection, and entertain clients and staff. “We wanted to create a comfortable and inspiring space for our clients, team members and friends, says Bryan Burkhart. “Meetings with clients are much more productive and fun in this environment since we’re able to really get to know them and better understand how they want their spaces in their own home to feel, not just how they want them to look.” Burkhart Brothers is a boutique luxury home builder crafting custom homes in Orange County’s coastal cities.

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After months of preparation, the members of the Corona del Mar PTA successfully executed their annual CdM Home Tour. Seven homes were on the tour, one in each CdM neighborhood. Tickets to the event sold out, raising thousands of dollars for CdM Middle and High Schools. Hundreds of CdM and neighboring residents toured the beautiful homes, admiring the architecture and interior design. A VIP event was held after the tour to celebrate sponsors, volunteers, and donors supporting the event. Hosted by VALIA Properties and Barclay Butera, the gathering included live music, small bites, and champagne while viewing hand-selected art pieces curated by SCAPE Gallery.

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