SANCTUARIES LA EXPLORES THE QUIETER SIDE OF LOS ANGELES THROUGH DESIGN.
ROOTED IN THE BELIEF THAT SANCTUARY EXISTS EVERYWHERE, OFTEN HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHELBY NICO DIAMOND
On a corner of the Norma Triangle section of Doheny Drive, a few doors from one of Marilyn Monroe’s first LA apartments, there’s a house that looks like it doesn’t want you to enter. Blunt walls. Block stacked on block. From the sidewalk it reads as a fortress — closed, cubist, almost cold.
Lloyd Wright built it in 1927 as his home and his office, and he never left. Fifty-one years in the same rooms, until he died in 1978. Home upstairs, studio below, the two stacked on a lot you could cross in under a minute.
You’ve probably driven past it and credited his father; Happy Father’s Day, Lloyd.
