Leo Marmol Would Rather Design Small, Think Big

We caught restoration whiz and prefab pioneer Leo Marmol at Design Within Reach in Beverly Hills last night as he kicked off the first of a series of talks that will take him to DWRs across the country. Although we were fascinated the firm’s restorations of museum-worthy gems like the Kaufmann House, more intriguing for the mostly design-curious Westsiders in attendance was Marmol Radziner‘s burgeoning prefab company. Almost every prefab slide he put up was greeted with a “What’s the square footage here?” or “How much would this cost?” It was fascinating to watch non-designers window shop for architecture as if they were strolling Rodeo Drive (only two blocks away).