A Pacific Palisades family rebuilt their art collection through CAP's rental program, keeping nine of the fourteen works they lived with first.
A family came to us earlier this year after losing their home in Pacific Palisades. They had moved into a new place and were starting to think about the walls. They had owned art before. Not a formal collection, but pieces they had gathered over twenty years. All of it was gone.
What stuck with us from that first conversation was simple. They didn't want to be told what to buy. They wanted to figure out what the new house needed, and they weren't ready to make permanent decisions about art yet. They had already made so many of those decisions on the move itself.
We started them on our CAPHome rental program. That turned out to be exactly right. They lived with fourteen works for about a month without committing to any of them. Some came down. Some got moved. A large abstract our team placed in the dining room ended up in the primary bedroom, where it still is today. That's not a mistake. That's the process doing what it's supposed to do. When there's no pressure to commit, people find what they actually want.
Nine of those works are now theirs. They purchased them once the collection stopped feeling like a trial and started feeling like home. The others rotated out and were replaced, and the family has since added pieces by artists they discovered along the way.
We didn't replace what burned. That's not what this was about. What we gave them was time, a reversible first step, and a team that handled everything so the only question they had to answer was whether they liked living with something.
A house becomes a home when it starts to feel like yours. Art is a big part of how that happens.
