Carmen Radulescu-Devine knew little of Modernist architecture when she started dating her future husband, Frank Devine, in the early 2000s. She had been raised in Romania, among medieval and classic Gothic structures.
So when she saw Devine’s home in Los Angeles—a trophy of the Modernist movement designed by the famed architect Richard Neutra—it wasn’t exactly her style.
“The first thing that hit me was the air and light,” she recalled. “But it was pretty bare in there. Cozy is not a word I would have used.”