Design Icons
Celebrate the icons that define modern architecture.
IR ARCHITECTS
IR Architects is an elite Los Angeles-based firm specializing in contemporary architectural design for high-end multi-million dollar residences and estates within Los Angeles’s burgeoning luxury real estate market.
The firm fuses sleek functionality with creative aesthetics to elevate each project to its fullest potential. With advanced design expertise, incorporating the most innovative techniques, the firm has built an impressive repertoire in Southern California.
and I believe it's the standard in aluminum windows and doors. They made sure that the product operates well, it moves smoothly, and it requires a low amount of maintenance. They're the best for that reason.
Ignacio Rodriguez - IR Architects
THE UP STUDIO
The Up Studio is a national award-winning studio that strives to bring joy to people’s lives through concept-driven architecture, interior, and brand design. Their projects are customized to our clients’ needs, site specific, and rooted in a thoughtful design strategy.
They believe that every design has a story to tell. To tell that story, they employ a multidisciplinary approach that combines broad ideas, diligent organization, and innovative tools, presented within a coherent narrative.
because they have these beautiful 11ft minimal frame windows that allows us to bring so much of the nature inside without distracting with that thick frame. We’ve used Fleetwood in a number of the homes that we’ve designed. They have a really trusted reputation, and we’ve seen that time and time again in the projects we’ve created.
Jeffrey Ramirez, Partner & Brand Designer - The Up Studio
Brian Murdock
Murdock Architecture specializes in innovative solutions to unique design challenges.
Their projects utilize a collaborative method between client and architect through intensive one on one meetings and a progressive digital process.
This process performs a significant role in the ability to attain constructibility, efficiency and the co-mingling of client, ideas, site and context.
of keeping up with California's Title 24 energy standards —where we’ve seen other companies disappear or offer a more limited selection when meeting those goals. … The level of customer service has come up a lot. It’s easy to get answers, easy to get all the information. That’s been a really good experience.
Brian Murdock - Murdock Architecture
Stuart Narofsky
Stuart Narofsky, FAIA, is the principal of Narofsky Architecture, a multi-discipline design firm founded in 1983. Stuart is the recipient of the AIA Long Island “Lifetime Achievement Award”.
His projects are highly recognized through design awards, national and international publications, videos, and exhibitions. His firm has won competitions resulting in built work for MCA Records and Long Island Ronald McDonald House, and an "unbuilt" sustainable solution for Pratt Graduate Housing. He is a past president of AIA Long Island as well as former chair of AIA National’s Custom Residential Architects Network.
when I need really high-quality and thin frames. They really hold up on waterfront properties.
Stuart Narofsky - Narofsky Architects. New York
Clive Wilkinson
Clive Wilkinson Architects is a distinguished architecture and design practice that collaborates with progressive clients to envision and design new environments that support, enhance and reinvigorate contemporary life.
Through their design process, they strive to connect people, shape relationships and empower organizations to produce new and invigorating forms of human community. They have acquired a wealth of experience of enrichment of future projects though working with some of the world's most creative companies and institutions over the course of thirty years.
for pretty much all the openings in the house because it’s such an excellent product. The material is very durable. They use recycled aluminum. It's got salt air resistance in its finishes... we expect a long life from this product. We’ve used it many times before, and we will reuse it many times again.
Clive Wilkinson
Lou DesRosiers
Lou DesRosiers was born into architecture, following the legacy of his father, Arthur, a renowned architect. Immersed in design from an early age, Lawrence Tech and, at just 28, built his own 6,400 sq. ft. home. This hands-on experience shaped his philosophy and led to the founding of DesRosiers Architects in 1974.
Today, Lou is celebrated for creating award-winning homes that harmonize with nature while incorporating exceptional design, premium materials, and advanced technology. DesRosiers Architects has earned more than 200 major design awards and continues to set the standard for luxury residential architecture.
Fleetwood is one company that will make large panels of glass, which is critical to me as an architect. We also like to deal with local sources. We like to work with US products made in the USA. We like to work with local distributors that install and back up their installation.
Lou DesRosiers - DesRosiers Architects. Michigan
BEN BALLENTINE
Ballentine Architects is a boutique Architecture studio based out of Los Angeles CA, specializing in Luxury Lifestyle and Custom Residential Design throughout Southern California. Working in a wide range of architectural styles, their projects are thoughtful, carefully crafted responses to our client’s lifestyles.
Regardless of design aesthetic, their projects are rooted in a strong concept and layout. They take care to integrate today’s modern technologies and design all the indoor/outdoor amenities essential to Southern California living.
with breathtaking, panoramic views from Downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean, a ‘zero edge’ system was the only acceptable choice for [this property]. Having had over a decade of successful projects with Fleetwood and their incredible support team, the EDGE system was the frontrunner for this house. The EDGE’s innovative design, particularly its thin sightlines and massive panel sizes, perfectly complements the goal of maximizing natural light and unobstructed views.
Ben Ballentine - Ballentine Architects. California
Dean Larkin
Dean Larkin, AIA has been described as the quintessential Los Angeles based state of the art luxury indoor/outdoor contemporary architect. A native of Los Angeles, Dean says that Architecture chose him in the sense that it’s both a passion and a career.
His range and variety of projects are diverse with a focus on spectacular private residences in California’s best and most affluent neighborhoods; striving for projects that evoke the unique climate, attitude and lifestyle of Southern California.
to the conceptional vision of the project and an integral partner to our project’s success. You combine that with their exceptional quality, and you can see why we have been working with them now for over two decades.
Dean Larkin, Dean Larkin Design
Kendle Design Collaborative
Kendle Design Collaborative is dedicated to crafting designs that exude timelessness while authentically capturing the essence of their unique surroundings.
The firm’s philosophy revolves around creating homes that seamlessly blend practicality and poetic beauty. By establishing a harmonious connection between inhabitants and the natural environment, they offer a multitude of distinct experiences that evolve with the sun’s passage and the shifting seasons. Kendle Design Collaborative has cultivated a portfolio that exemplifies dedication to innovative, regionally inspired modern design.
they play a vital role in shaping the character and spatial rhythm of a home. Fleetwood’s refined minimalism and configurability allow us to choreograph light, air, and view with precision which helps animate the architecture and the lives within it.
Cathleen Kebert-Carboni
HEID Architects
Charles is the Founding Principal of HEID Architects. His passion is to create design solutions crafted from close attention to project contexts and motivated by a desire to connect people with their environment.
Passionate for the style and ethos of southern California modernism, Charles developed an appreciation for the impact material and environment can have on human experience. Large glass openings and minimized details allow no room for distraction when the desired outcome is connection with nature.
and Fleetwood’s sleek window sightliness delivered this prerequisite perfectly. Matched with the windows construction and thermal properties, Fleetwood was an exceptional choice to survive the projects harsh lakeside exposure during Midwest winter conditions.
Charles Heid, HEID Architects
Deborah Forrest
Deborah Lloyd Forrest, FASID, founded award-winning design firm FORRESTPERKINS, specializing in luxury hotels and resorts worldwide, and her husband, Thomas Scott, IES, was a respected lighting industry leader. Having maintained a second home in Santa Fe for many years, in 2022, they relocated permanently to Santa Fe from Dallas, Texas, to focus on designing and building a modern home that reflects their love of New Mexico and its cultural and natural diversity.
Their home incorporates the work of many Santa Fe artists, Native American potters, and photographs by Deborah’s stepfather, as well as artifacts and artwork acquired over their forty-year marriage. A signature painting commissioned from their friend, Minnesota artist Mary Calengor, anchors the glass-surrounded dining room. The home’s furnishings include iconic modern pieces, European cabinetry and floor to ceiling windows allowing stunning views.
and a visit to the factory. We found Fleetwood to meet our rigorous standards for elegant design, ease of operation, and seamless integration into the structure. Our intent was to blur the separation between the interior and the landscape and breathtaking views with soaring expanses of glass imbedded into the slab and ceiling. Fleetwood met our expectations beautifully.
- Deborah Forrest and Thomas Scott
Michelle Boudreau
A creative studio that offers interior design, architecture, custom furniture, lighting and decor design services. Michelle is passionate about creating environments that tell a visual story and take you on an adventure.
Drawing from her background in internationally renowned design to create unique environments. Her signature style encourages the mingling of cultures, original forms, and architectural shapes with rich, artful, unexpected details.
and their ability to raise the design standard by making the details of windows and doors nearly invisible, allowing the beauty of the environment to take center stage.
Michelle Boudreau, Michelle Boudreau Design
Grace Home Furnishings
Roger Stoker & Michael Ostrow
Founded in 2000 by designers Michael Ostrow and Roger Stoker, Grace Home Furnishings provides a vibrant, inviting atmosphere that combines retail, a custom furniture studio, and a team of in house designers providing personalized interior design services.
The designers and their team have designed elegant spaces in a range of aesthetics for high-profile clients all over the world.
while making the home a modern and livable residence going forward. You can update a vintage house without disturbing the original character. The Fleetwood products marry well with original mid-century architecture and other vintage architecture.
Roger Stocker, Designer - Grace Home Furnishings
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