“As soon as I saw that giant shuttered window, there was no turning back,” says designer Kevin Isbell of the Spanish Revival home in the Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles that he and his partner, Gianantonio Corna, now call home. But this wasn’t just any switch of street addresses: With the move, Isbell officially relocated his New York design practice to the West Coast. So, that is to say, those shutters were good enough to inspire a cross-country move.
Isbell was immediately smitten with the architecture of the home (“it’s a
