A Tiny Home Office in the Hollywood Hills Comes With a Floor That’s a Work of Art

Small enough to evade most city regulations, the glass-and-steel jewel box is the perfect work space for a retired dentist and tinkerer.
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Constraints often produce creative results, but municipal codes and permitting processes can also be design downers. So much so that Steven Alper, a retired dentist turned something of an architecture impresario, dreamed up a way to evade them altogether, even while adding something beautiful to Hollywood’s visual hodgepodge of a hillscape.

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