Art consultant John Wolf has collaborated with designer and longtime friend Adam Bram Straus to renovate a house in the Hollywood Hills as John Wolf's home. For nearly two decades, John Wolf lived his best life in a midcentury Hollywood apartment building, complete with a swimming pool.
When John Wolf lived there, he was attracted to another tenant, Adam Bram Straus, a former investment banker turned interior designer. Adam's apartment was one of the trendiest there, and the two became friends, and when Wolf moved to his apartment in Wilshire Vista Heights, he asked Straus to design it for him.
Outside the 1970s home, a chain sculpture, cactuses in ceramic POTS and a custom bench line the perimeter of the pool. It also overlooks Nicholas Canyon in Los Angeles. He and Adam Bram Straus are working on a series of updates, one of which is to paint the exterior black.
Wolf also insisted on keeping some of the house's quirky designs, including a Star Wars-themed flock wallpaper in the powder room and a makeup mirror above the sink walls; It also retains vivid Mosaic tiles in the master bathroom shower and tub, as well as a series of psychedelic glass.
- Interiors: Adam Bram Straus
- Photos: Douglas Friedman
- Words: Gina