Stiff Peaks by Byben & Skeens
Stiff Peaks is a small studio for a screen writer/Director. The client, a filmmaker, and a poet, acquired an eclectically terraced hillside property abutting Elysian park in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Stiff Peaks is a small studio for a screen writer/Director. The client, a filmmaker, and a poet, acquired an eclectically terraced hillside property abutting Elysian park in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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