Before & After: An L.A. Loft in a Former Nabisco Factory Gets a Japanese-Inspired Makeover
Amanda Gunawan of OWIU Design turns a cookie-cutter space into an Asian-inflected haven with an industrial edge.
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In 2019, architect Amanda Gunawan chanced upon a corner unit in the Biscuit Company Lofts, which originally served as the West Coast headquarters for the National Biscuit Company—better known as Nabisco—in Downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District.
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