One of the hottest contemporary designers ever to come out of the celebrity laden “Bird Streets”, as they are known in the Hollywood Hills, is making a comeback and its starting with his new website (http://palumbodesign.com). “He was the surfer on the wave of modern design in Los Angeles, always riding the crest first when it came to other designers of the time”, states David Brownlow of Brownlow +Chen. “After people saw Mike was building another they would say, what’s Palumbo doing now? They were busy cutting corners, but Mike was always the lead and guys like Steve Herman and Roger Davis followed.” Brownlow continues, “Those others will admit that Mike set the tone and the bar. Mike made the “Bird Streets” what they are.” After getting smashed in the sand of the Design-Build industry by clients who couldn’t pay and wrestling with the economic crisis like everyone else in the luxury building and design, Mike Palumbo has, once again, returned to his soul as a designer – but this time in Beverly Hills.
The new Palumbo Design website will survey Palumbo's 30-year (1982-2012) career, primarily as a designer, showcasing more than 30 examples of homes he designed in Los Angeles throughout his career. Michael Palumbo's impressive oeuvre is noted for its combination of gorgeous woods with materials such as steel, glass, cane, and for his timelessness. His homes have been so popular that they are used in TV and in such films as “The Takers” in 2010, HBO’s popular series “Entourage” in 2004, ABC’s “Beautiful Homes and Great Estates” and magazines such as InStyle, LUXE, US, House Beautiful, Space and more. Regardless of how aesthetically beautiful or freshly inventive his creations are, they were always intended to be functional and simplistic. Palumbo stands out among modern designers in his avoidance of trends or styles. Working within a modernist tradition, Palumbo's work is distinguished by an elegance of line, purity of materials, fascination with structure, and delight in small details.
Mike and the many people that have worked with him will tell you he is not “just” a designer; he’s a team builder. He finds a location, Developer, General Contractor and Architect before a project even begins. Design-build, also known as the “Master Builder” approach, is a method to deliver a project in which the design and construction services are contracted by a single entity known as the design-builder and is used to minimize risks for the home owner and reduce the delivery schedule by overlapping the design phase and construction phase of a project. “Too many people hire the entities separate and then run into problems. The design-build procurement route always reduces risks to luxury home owners and overall costs.” With his team in tow Mike is unstoppable in creating a vision that becomes a passion that drives the project through to completion. “I just want to do what I love to do – design and project manage the details.”
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