Nikki Tsai

Aug 24, 2023 | socaldesignmag.com | Nikki Tsai

Photography by Stephen Busken “I believe in constantly improving, challenging, and evolving,” says Natasha Baradaran. Her determination has paid dividends: Over the last 10 years, she has grown her interior design studio immensely, adding a successful product design branch with collections of furniture, textiles, and accessories. She had been casually keeping an eye on retail spaces around town when the storefront right below her La Cienega studio became available. It was as if fate intervened.

Aug 10, 2023 | socaldesignmag.com | Nikki Tsai

President and Publisher [email protected], @christophergiaSummer heat is here with this latest edition of SoCal Design, and we are proud to feature one of Orange County’s hottest couples: Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa, stars of The Flipping El Moussas, Flip or Flop (Tarek), and Selling Sunset (Heather). We visited their beautiful home on Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, where I had a chance to first talk to Tarek about his gym regime, meal plans, life as a dad, and design aesthetic.

Jun 23, 2023 | socaldesignmag.com | Nikki Tsai

The historic San Gabriel Valley property sitting on nearly an acre in sun-kissed Arcadia, “was a big, wide-open, grassy space with no cozy nooks or mystery,” says Patricia Benner, founder of . “I set out to create a more gracious landscape by adding multiple, intimate-scale garden rooms.”Her primary vision for the property was to create a richly varied outdoor living experience, with a coherent flow between areas that were clearly part of a unified whole. Read full article on Pasadenamag.com

Jun 15, 2023 | socaldesignmag.com | Nikki Tsai

In 2017, when Evan Krenzien and his partner purchased their 1920s Spanish Revival home, they knew it needed some work. The historic property was still similar to how it was when it was first built. “All original rooms, original plaster. Like the entry hall, stair railing, and tiles on the stairs are all original back to the 1920s. But the house had been altered and augmented,” he says of the additions of a pool and porch in the ’50s or ’60s and further extensive renovations in 1987.

May 26, 2023 | socaldesignmag.com | Nikki Tsai

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