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Synopsis
This is a show about the unsung heart and legacy of Los Angeles, but it is a story that is applicable to people and cities across the country. It starts with one family, one man. Paul Revere Williams was one of the city’s most prominent architectural talents. His work has literally formed the visual foundation of the city.
When we land at LAX it’s his design, The Theme Building, that captures visitors’ attention.
When we see The Beverly Hills Hotel, it is his personal handwriting that we recognize.
He is lauded as “the architect to the stars” having designed homes for those whose names line the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
But because he was a Black man and wasn’t allowed to share the same side of the table as his White clients, he taught himself to draw and write upside-down and backwards so that he could render his sketches for clients sitting across from him. Despite this, he built an incredible career with his daughter Norma as his interior decorator to his designs.
Now, in the aftermath of the 2025 fires that ravaged parts of the city, his grandson Glenn Harvey (the son of Norma) and great-granddaughter Jordan Adero are working together to help rebuild neighborhoods in the city using the 100-year-old home designs by Paul R. Williams in a full-circle creation grounded in their five generations of love and belief in the city of Los Angeles.
With Jordan as the fulcrum, the show would be split into two universes:
1. The one grounded in LA legacy, poised to lend even more to the architectural landscape utilizing Paul R. Williams 100-year-old but incredibly modern home designs to help rebuild community.
2. The one grounded in LA now, a continuation of young energy and creativity via Jordan's web of young creatives and entrepreneurs.
The overall style and vibe of the series is a cross between what we feel are current best in class design shows like Happy To Be Home & The Established Home with beautiful and approachable interiors, mixed with the personal view of life, love, and style for Jordan and her band of friends à la one of old standards like The Hills.
Bio
Charise M. Studesville is a bestselling writer, filmmaker, and mixed media artist who uses truth to illuminate darkness within the human experience. She has a life-long obsession with secrets, and loves the discovery process of untangling them and finding the universal truths hidden within. She believes it’s how we discover the common bonds that build cosmic connection.
Charise has recently been delving into stories of women that center what she calls the midlife second puberty, where we have the opportunity to apply the life lessons and discoveries that are the rewards for our growing pains. All of this is integral to her current art, including such projects as: REASONS TO LIVE, a “mixed media memoir” and film project that revisit her adventures through the zeitgeist of the cultural and social scene of 1980s New York City; THE WAVES, a feature film about what happens to the friends left behind when ALS moves their mutual bestie to choose an assisted suicide exit and leaves one last wish for them to honor; and THE COMPOUND, a film that illuminates a non-traditional love story amongst unlikely friends who discover their happily-ever-after in their self-made homestead community.
Charise has films, tv, and book projects in the hopper, and is always excited to take on new projects that elevate her storytelling journey. As a fierce advocate for women, she is a proud member of WIF, Film Fatales, Women In Media, and Alliance of Women Directors, and is the founder of Hollywood Chick Mafia, a community of creative rebel chicks supporting each others' badassery.
