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go with it — the better to keep track of
far-flung, big-thinking clients, includ-
ing Jeffrey Katzenberg and James
Cameron (she designed his Lightstorm
Entertainment Studios). Says Jon
Landau, weighing in from the New
Zealand set of Avatar 2, “Lynda brings
two essential things: She is creative
in her aesthetic and innovative in
making that vision a reality.” She just
finished a project in Bel Air for Michael
Bay, with whom she’s been working
for 20 years — “our first from the
ground up, so that was really special,”
says Murray — and a home for
Greg Berlanti and his husband.OLIVER
FURTH
Alongside consulting for LACMA’S
Decorative Arts Council as chair
emeritus, Furth shares his vast
knowledge of the city’s creative scene
with such clients as Imagine’s Michael
Rosenberg, UTA’s Jim Berkus and
CAA’s Michael Rosenfeld. “I’m often
commissioning artisans to make
unique furniture,” says Furth, like the
Eames Eiffel Tower chairs he asked
Tanya Aguiñiga to reimagine in felt for
Nickelodeon CMO Jenny Wall. Says
comedian Clark Duke, “He loves color,
he’s fearless with his creative choices,
and he’s a patient teacher.”STUDIO
SHAMSHIRI
Their exit from powerhouse design
studio Commune hasn’t slowed
down brother-and-sister duo Pamela
and Ramin Shamshiri. Strong
creatives like Charlize Theron, Seth
Rogen, Beck and André Balazs gush
with praise for their work. “We adore
her,” says Anne Hathaway (Pam
designed a California chalet for
her and husband Adam Shulman).
“Sometimes ambitious design can
be intellectually satisfying, but feel
alienating to live in,” the star says. “We
love our home because it brings us
pleasure to look at, but we love living
in it — having friends over, cooking,
chilling, raising our family.”VANE S SA
ALEXANDER
“Malibu isn’t known for its architec-
ture,” says the Colony native, “but
it always had this big surf break
that attracts people,” including
clients David Duchovny
and Gerard Butler. Now
living in Bonsall Canyon
with her husband, ICM
partner Steve Alexander,
the designer specializes in
the rustic laid-back style
that marks her Malibu Farm
design, now exported to Miami,
Hawaii and New York. Alexander
also works with attorney Kevin Yorn,
director Marc Webb (The Amazing
Spider-Man), producer Matt Tolmach,
Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth.
She just completed the renovation
of an original Ricardo Legorreta in
Brentwood for WME agent Dan Aloni
and his family. — A.S.3
Stone arches shelter
a sculpture at the
Los Feliz convent.
4
Exterior view of the
arches on the estate,
for which Perry’s
$14.5 million option
to purchase expired
in August. The L.A.
Archdiocese is still
open to the deal,
should a replacement
property for local
clergy be found.NOW43to attack. The culprit?
Smart appliances. “You’ve
got Alexa, Siri, but then
you also have light bulbs,
toasters and coffee mak-
ers that are all connecting
to the internet,” says
Rabon, former manager
of information security
at Sony (before the 2014
hack) and now CEO of
Cyber Defense Group,
which charges as much
as $10,000 a month to
protect homeowners from
digital dangers. “If you
use the same password
on your iCloud or Gmail as
you do on DoorDash, it’s
trivial for an attacker to
enter very sensitive areas
of your life.”
One of the fastest -
growing waves of homesecurity is enabling resi-
dents to escape from their
own compounds. “Safe
rooms have always been
around, but now there are
secret passages and exits
so that they can get out
quickly,” says Umansky.
Daniel Giersch (ex-hus-
band of Kelly Rutherford)
has listed his $13 million
home in the South of
France that includes a
description of a series of
underground tunnels.
A hidden garage is
becoming a must-have
amenity for the $40 mil-
lion-plus home. Typically
a one-car interior space
located far from the
main garage, the area is
often underground and
connects to the home viatunnels for a full Mission:
Impossible escape from
intruders armed with
weapons or simply record-
ing devices. “Here in L.A.,
keeping people safe from
intruders includes the
paparazzi,” says Umansky.
Jannie Cercone, a
former producer and
now a developer of a
new Malibu home listed
at $10 million, installed
not just one 10-foot-high
hedge but “two — with a
chain-link fence woven
with PVC blackout slats
in between,” she says.
“That way, the home is
surrounded by beauti-
ful landscaping, but it
prevents a paparazzo from
reaching his or her camera
through the branches.”system or shut the cable,
internet and phone.”
Security systems are
now also trained toward
people living inside the
home. In one under-
construction Brentwood
estate with an elaborate
cannabis lounge, Nosrati
has installed fingerprint-
recognition software so
that only certain people
can be admitted: “If the
kids or the housekeeper
try to enter the room,
nobody can get in except
those who have access.”
But just as L.A. homes
are starting to function
more like banks and muse-
ums, cybersecurity expert
Lou Rabon says luxury
compounds are becoming
more, not less, vulnerable