Kutner and Rudolph in the A. Quincy Jones–designed house they restored in Brentwood. Photo: Bliss Braoudakis
AT WORK WITH: OME DEZIN
- Words Shonquis Moreno
Meet the design duo restoring LA’s most glamorous homes.
A 1927 Tudor-style cottage in Beachwood Canyon, once owned by burlesque star Lili St. Cyr, whom Marilyn Monroe was said to have patterned herself on. As Liza Dawson, an editor at William Morrow, who published a biography of St. Cyr, put it in 1989: “Norma Jean was a mousy, brown-haired girl with a high squeaky voice, and it was from Lili St. Cyr that she learned how to become a sex goddess.”
For many years, Los Angeles–based interior design studio Ome Dezin worked wherever their projects took them.1 That means that since launching their practice in 2021, Joelle Kutner and Jesse Rudolph have spent most of their days on-site, communicating their vision with references and mood boards, troubleshooting with the millworker or the tile setter and adjusting details in real time.
