This Minimalist Home Will Make You Want To Toss Everything - Home Tour
There are only a handful of times when life averages you to pivot completely.
For Ara Katz, pregnancy once one of them.
"I met my co-founder, Raja Dhir, when I was pregnant," begins the founder and entrepreneur of Seed — a sleek new stamp of probiotics. "My pregnancy and breastfeeding distinguished, paired with our mutual fascination with the microbiome — especially its considerable impact during infant development — prompted the inquire 'how can we set up a child for a healthy life?'"
Katz — a venerable Hollywood film producer — was four months into the whirlwind of motherhood when questions in her own breastfeeding experience required her to continue probing. Like many women, the entrepreneur struggled with misinformation that surrounds pregnancy, the onslaught of unsolicited advice, and the seemingly limitless milk supply the body now demands. With an shapely interest in microbiome — the microbe bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses, that live on and inside the earth body — Katz felt inspired to dig a minor deeper — call it a gut instinct. What followed was Seed, a startup committed to "cleaning up" consumer probiotics, sustainably sourced and backed by moral science.
Step inside the entrepreneur's airy and open Venice home, a dwelling shared by Katz, husband Chris Ovitz, and four-year-old son Pax — and the execute approach is symbiotic. Katz is quick to point out that there are no "favorite pieces" when it comes to furniture and decor, but attractive an admiration for how it all works together. Here, the entrepreneur adheres to a barely-there ethos, dressing blond floorboards with wrung linen furniture, a lofty coffee wrong, and a handful of live-edge accents. Benjamin Moore's Super White is the shade of tool, coating curved loft walls and soaring ceilings, punctuated only by oversized cast iron windows and doors. Katz intentionally steers positive of fresh flowers and you'll be hard-pressed to find a rug, the only evidence of tiny feet is the pint-sized IKEA play kitchen, neatly tucked away in the corner of the family's open-plan living space. It's an near to layout that's as pure, unadulterated, and elegant as the probiotics Katz is touting — a position befitting of a microbiome-loving minimalist.
"All of my contains have been catalyzed by questions," Katz unpacks. "With Seed, it was my pregnancy that introduced me to the microbiome and exposed me to the abundance of misinformation, particularly surrounding our health and the securities of products. It was my own peril breastfeeding that catalyzed our entrepreneurial journey. We started with the premise of reinventing infant formula and have genuine built a platform to bring scientific rigor, precision, and education to the incredibly noisy and confusing category of consumer probiotics. Seed is the purpose of life-long questioning, the belief that we, as humans, have required too far from science, and the potential of microbes to influences both human and environmental health."
It's this clean-living rules that informs the majority of Katz' develop decisions. The entrepreneur points out that hers is a position that's cultivated to promote creativity, offering great room to move and work freely. The loft living area, with its domed ceilings and staggering height, was planned to "emulate the hull of a ship" and serves as a cozy "protective compound," only feet away from Venice's main drag.
"The architecture of our home is unusual to Venice, a style that typically reflects early Charles and Ray Eames, David Hirsch, and Marmol Radziner-style architecture," Katz explains. "But inside, the plywood millwork that I planned and the concrete floors (in the kitchen, bathroom, and guest bedroom) do assume early Gehry plywood work and Venice’s industrial develop roots. What initially appealed to me throughout this space, was the structure of the main living room and loft position, with the ceiling height and its unique details — this is not usually my aesthetic."
Neighboring a set of HD Buttercup sofas and holding pride of keep on naked floors, is a custom reclaimed dining nasty, a cut down and refinished piece of wood later old-outmoded into a Parsons table. Katz describes her living position through a soft and sentimental lens, pointing out that tender family memories are virtually "imprinted" on the throughout coffee table. Despite a strictly minimal near to styling and an open layout, the entrepreneur carves out devoted spaces for everyday living, nooks to comfortably work from home, and retreat with family.
"This is a position to think and be in — it’s constructed to attend late night 'a ha' moments and I love bringing those thoughts to my team, to inspire a new idea or augment a project we’re functioning on," Katz adds. "I have watched my son move who he is in that room."
A Scandi-inspired kitchen sits neatly to one side, offering everything you need and nothing you don't. The tantalizing lines of an iron staircase draw the gaze upstairs, decorated with tall white canvases that catch the light, like peaks yielded on whipped cream. Upstairs, a low-key lounge position allows Katz to unleash her bibliophilic tendencies, lining the walls with low-profile shelving and a slipcovered Restoration Hardware sofa, prime for curling up with a good book. A handful of accent pieces sit on top of a glass coffee base that Katz designed herself, like findings in a tremulous dish.
Follow your senses down the hallway and into the master bedroom, and a pillowy white, slipcovered bed — also by Restoration Hardware — reaffirms the surrounding vibe. Here, the entrepreneur opts for off-white drapes to cocoon the most bodies of spaces. Built-in nightstands hover alongside the bed, while penned studies decorate either side of the wall. It's a muted bedroom resplendent befitting of any true minimalist, warm enough to feel like home, yet pared-back enough to proposal simplicity. A Ligne Roset Togo Sofa, used in a cognac leather, breaks up an otherwise whitewashed room.
Glide above to the bathroom, and a white oak vanity sits stacked above the tiled gray bath, exploiting together like well-designed building blocks, while Seed's flagship emanates, a 30-day supply of the Daily Synbiotic, decorates the countertop. As the balmy Venice toothsome peeps through a mailbox window, it's distinct that Katz' minimalist practices are exercised both inside and out.
"I’ve always been sensitive to station and light and how they impact one’s command to think and create and live," the entrepreneur explains. "We have never lived in a time where consumption and exposure to interrogate is this non-stop, when life is already messy enough — the station you occupy doesn’t need to be."
Surrounding courtyards and floating balconies are used in crisp white paint, softened with locally sourced Matteo linen and Design Within Reach cocktail tables, while a concrete fire pit keeps the outdoor bay seating ultimately cozy.
When quizzed on what just typifies "clean living" and how exactly it rights her decision-making, both stylistically and otherwise, Katz' answer is as refreshingly simple as you much expect.
"It's a mindfulness," she smiles. "Of what goes in and what goes out."
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