Donaldson+Partners






Donaldson
+
Partners





Architecture, interior design & planning studio based in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Orange County creating transformative buildings & homes.



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Donaldson + Partners is a transdisciplinary design studio based in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Orange County committed to design and research that yields innovative homes and workplaces. We balance imagination and reality, art and science with a particular focus on the relationship between architecture, art, and the landscape. We engage in a wide range of project types and sizes around the world.
























FACET HOUSE



Beverly Hills, California
Designer: Robin Donaldson
Architect: ShubinDonaldson
Photographer: Fernando Guerra
Press: Wallpaper, AN Interior, The Plan



An iconic place for the timeless human values of creative expression, spiritual enlightenment, pursuit of knowledge and physical vitality.


























































HILL HOUSE MONTECITO




Montecito, California
Designer: Robin Donaldson
Photographer: Iwan Baan, Joe Fletcher
Press: California HousesANElle Decor / The Plan /
GA HOUSES / The Local Project / DesignboomGA PROJECT



At once embracing and questioning the dichotomy of building and landscape, this house emerges as part of the hilltop, its interiority seemingly carved from the natural topography, its existence quietly introducing itself, its presence profound.



























































TORO CANYON
RESIDENCE




Santa Barbara, California
Designer: Robin Donaldson & John Mike Cohen 
Photographer: Ciro Coelho
Press: Detail Magazine, AIA SB 



This house brings comfort and overlook, prospect and refuge. Drawing together environmental resilience, wildfire resistance, and deep connectivity between inside and outside, it acts as sculpture and hearth, object and experience.