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Steve Lazar Designer & Builder of Homes from California Coast to Mountains of Utah
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In this episode, meet Steve Lazar! A dozen years ago a luxury beach home popped up in Hermosa Beach, California resembling a lifeguard tower. Designed and built by Steve Lazar—a local surfer who was first an actor, then a construction laborer before working his way up to full-fledged builder—it was the first in a portfolio of his striking Modernist homes along the coast of Los Angeles. Each visually distinctive, yet all bearing his trademarks, from the deft twining of indoor and outdoor spaces, to a director’s command of directing natural light. One even had a tree growing in its center.
These days Lazar is bringing his unique touch to mountain homes outside Park City, Utah, along with a construction-boots-on-the-ground sensibility that has him at the job site daily. “If I’m going to ask someone to sweep the floor, I’m willing to sleep the floor,” says Lazar of his leadership style. On his crew: “We’re a team of little sculptors, and we have this crazy piece of terrain. We spend months digging it up, and making a complete mess of it. Then we spend another 16 months turning it into something.”
Designers and builders, from the DIY to professional, can learn from this far-reaching Titans of Trade discussion with Steve Lazar: From innovative ways to link your home with nature, to turning project setbacks into creative feats, and knowing when less (of a material, a feature or creative theme) is more.
“This has taken me like, 35 years, but the biggest problems that I incur on a project are inevitably going to become a feature that I’m going to be really happy with how it turns out,” shares Lazar. “I don’t get myself too wound up. That’s taken a lot of years to figure out, because some of the worse things that can occur on a job site can inevitably become its finest features.”
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