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Architect Takashi Yanai’s Los Angeles kitchen is the size of his clients’ walk-in closets. A partner at Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (and a graduate of Harvard’s School of Design), Yanai, who was born in Japan and grew up in Santa Monica, oversee’s the firm’s residential projects: he’s a master at designing clean-lined California dream houses that are all about indoor-outdoor living.

Above: Yanai and his wife, architect Patricia Rhee (also a partner at EYRC specializing in civic and public spaces) and their two children have lived in their 1,500-square-foot house for eight years, and remained put while Yanai was transforming it—”we set up a temporary kitchen in the garage,” he tells us.