Architect Oscar Shamamian
Oscar Shamamian creates Holmby Hills residence, The Faring Estate. The regency-style home accompanies a guest-house originally designed by iconic architect John Elgin Woolf.
Oscar Shamamian creates Holmby Hills residence, The Faring Estate. The regency-style home accompanies a guest-house originally designed by iconic architect John Elgin Woolf.
Shamamian acquired his Masters of Architecture from Columbia Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. He commenced his profession at the workplace of Robert A.M. Stern, in which he designed projects ranging from Manhattan flats to vacation houses in the Hamptons. In 1985, Oscar joined the decorating firm of Parish-Hadley where he furthered his work on traditional residential design. While at Parish-Hadley, he joined forces with Mark Ferguson, and in 1988, began the corporation known as Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, LLP.
John Elgin Woolf, heralded as “architect to the stars,” Woolf gave film royalty a new luxury style. According to The New York Times, Woolf “established a new vocabulary for glamorous movie-star living … synthesized 19th-century French, Greek Revival and Modernist touches into a heady mixture that has since been christened Hollywood Regency, which foreshadowed aspects of postmodernism.” He designed houses for many luminaries, including Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, David O. Selznick, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
Shamamian acquired his Masters of Architecture from Columbia Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. He commenced his profession at the workplace of Robert A.M. Stern, in which he designed projects ranging from Manhattan flats to vacation houses in the Hamptons. In 1985, Oscar joined the decorating firm of Parish-Hadley where he furthered his work on traditional residential design. While at Parish-Hadley, he joined forces with Mark Ferguson, and in 1988, began the corporation known as Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, LLP.
John Elgin Woolf, heralded as “architect to the stars,” Woolf gave film royalty a new luxury style. According to The New York Times, Woolf “established a new vocabulary for glamorous movie-star living … synthesized 19th-century French, Greek Revival and Modernist touches into a heady mixture that has since been christened Hollywood Regency, which foreshadowed aspects of postmodernism.” He designed houses for many luminaries, including Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, David O. Selznick, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.