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T he assignment was ambitious: Buy a 1970s house. Strip its copper roof. Commission 20 artists to forge the metal into site-specific furniture. And that was only the beginning. When real estate developer and Unfold Projects founder Mel Meagher bought the Encinitas house in 2022, she wanted to avoid the spec-home playbook — tear it down, put up drywall, and fill it with mass-produced furniture. Instead, she asked a simpler question: What if everything taken out of the building went back into making it? In the regenerative-build process, she established something far more impactful: an ensemble of regional artisans and e Artist Flat, a dedicated platform to fund, host, and showcase local talent. e property is a gem of Californian organic modernism first designed by Shanna Kellogg — with structural collaboration from her father, famed architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg. "When I first happened across this house, it had lost its original concept derived from the organic architecture movement of Kendrick Kellogg, and had landed in a Bali-themed direction," Meagher recalls. "ere was a disconnection between the indoors and outdoors; it was dark and heavy." Live architecture BOLD MOVE A new artist-in-residence program in Encinitas has garnered New York Times ink. So, what's all the fuss about? We step inside the HQ of Unfold Projects. BY GILLIAN FLYNN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JUSTIN CHUNG