Neighborhood — Modern Venice Homes

Venice marches to the beat of its own drum. A uniquely LA neighborhood as close to surf and sun as it is to world class restaurants and burgeoning Silicon Beach.

Each walk street is a sanctuary, an idyllic island in a sea of urbanity. Each narrow passageway showcases a vibrant display of architectural and landscaping talent.

Venice has its own laid-back sidewalk culture. Street corners and hidden alleys are home to some of the best coffee shops, cafes, and galleries. You just have to know where to go.

Beyond the palm trees and blue sky, beyond the press and the buzz, Venice continues to be one of LA's most desirable and iconic neighborhoods.

Once you live in Venice, you're bound to go AWOL. A local inside joke referring to the "anywhere west of Lincoln" lifestyle. A car-free, bike life in one of LA's most walkable neighborhoods.

Abbot Kinney is where where LA meets NYC, Portland and Chicago.

With countless restaurants, cafes, and independent shops along Abbot Kinney and Lincoln Boulevard, nothing is more than a few blocks away from your doorstep.

Local eateries like Superba Food + Bread offer all day service and become true neighborhood hang outs. This is a vibrant, walkable community where you'll run into neighbors when you walk to coffee or return from yoga.

Officially named "America's Coolest Street" by Forbes and "the Coolest Block in America" by GQ, Abbot Kinney is where hip meets urbane.

Venice has always been a place where talented modern architects could express themselves. Designed in 1984 for artist Lynn Norton and writer William Norton, Frank Gehry’s Norton House is known for its eccentric form and eclectic materiality.

Health and wellness are central to the Venice lifestyle and organic groceries, ready-to-eat meal deliveries, juices, and cleanses are all a quick walk or a phone call away.

Photographer Philip Dixon's house in Venice is one of the most instagrammed house in LA. This Venice abode was designed to look like a desert pied-a-terre, and now serves as a filming locations, which is why it graces the look books and Instagram feeds of brands like Citizens of Humanity and Staud. It was recently featured in Architectural Digest.

Pop into Urban Remedy or Erewhon for natural groceries. Pick up the latest wellness products and embrace healthy indulgence.

Architect Steven Ehrlich designed the 700 Palms Residence based on his multicultural modernist design approach. The house is centered around a large courtyard.

From white-washed bungalow shops boasting the best of boho to gourmet donut/flower shops, to boutiques selling a myriad of mushroom-based adaptogen-spiked matcha, chocolate or coffee pods, Abbot Kinney is a Goop-approved shopping destination.

Living on a walk street means that you're steps away from Lincoln Boulevard's restaurants and shops or Abbot Kinney's coolest block in America.

Architect David Hertz designed the McKinley Residence in Venice, which later became famous as the "Californication" house and sold for a record $14.6 million in 2017.

Go for a surf out front. When that Western swell is just right, Breakwater is just a quick bike ride away.

Venice was truly a hotbed for post modern architects. Pictured here from left to right, architects Frederick Fisher, Robert Mangurian, Eric Owen Moss, Coy Howard, Craig Hodgetts, Thom Mayne, and Frank Gehry. Photo by Ave Pildas in 1980, part of SCI-arc's "Modern Architecture: A Confederacy of Heretics, Venice 1979" exhibition, part of Pacific Standard Time in 2013.

Architect Frederick Fisher is known for his irreverent, whimsical designs, so it should come as no surprise that his first solo project had a wave-shaped roof and was located in Venice. The Caplin Residence was completed in 1979.

The 2-4-6-8 house located on Amorosa Place, a neighboring walk street, looks like it might be a child’s playhouse, in style if not in scale, but it is a real residence befitting adult-sized people. Completed in 1978, it is also one of the earliest designs by renowned Los Angeles architects Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi of Morphosis.

Renowned architect Lorcan O'Herlihy designed the Kaleidoscopic Cabinet, also in Venice.

Once considered subversive, the Caplin Residence is recognized as a post-modern jewel and was restored in 2013.

Award-winning Abramson Architects is no stranger to Venice either. Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke lived here until 2020 when she sold her Abramson Architects-designed home for $4.4 million.

Inspired by Paul Rudolph’s Umbrella House of 1953, architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa designed the Solar Umbrella house in Venice as a contemporary reinvention of the solar canopy.

Venice's architectural legacy continues today. Dwell Home Venice, pictured here was completed in 2013 and designed by Boston-based architect Sebastian Mariscal.

Pritzker Prize 2019 Laureate Arata Isozaki's only US home is located in Venice. Originally designed for an art collector, this light filled manse was once owned by Eric Clapton.

The quintessential Southern California neighborhood.

You could easily walk right by if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

Hidden in plain sight, the Venice Walk Streets are one of LA’s best kept secrets.

Design matters in Venice.

Great architects have always gravitated here to express their craft.

Forbes

Abbot Kinney: America’s Coolest Street is Quintessentially LA. It’s where hipster meets bohemian. Where LA meets NYC, Portland and Chicago. Where cool meets urbane.

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“Venice West is to Los Angeles what the Left Bank once was to Paris.”