Gina Correll Aglietti’s Golden Hour View

Happy Wednesday! Today, a treat: Gina Correll Aglietti, chef and co-founder of the artisanal Oaxacan-based spirit company Yola Mezcal, gives us a little peak inside her stunning R.M. Schindler-designed Silver Lake home. Aglietti shares her favorite nook, a table just off the kitchen, where she starts her day with coffee and enjoys the sunsets that fill the space with a golden glow. — Maraya

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Golden Hour Sunshine and Mezcal with Gina Correll Aglietti

The first time chef and co-founder of Yola Mezcal Gina Correll Aglietti sat in the kitchenette of her house, she did Jell-O shots with the original owner of the home, who was 89 at the time. It was 10 am on a January morning and she had prepared the shots for Aglietti with tequila (she hadn’t yet tried Yola Mezcal, Aglietti clarified) and citrus from the trees in the backyard—the same trees whose fruit Aglietti would go onto use in her own cooking. The kitchenette is Aglietti’s favorite place in her house, a wood and glass R.M. Schindler-designed residence overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir. The table, designed and built for the house by Schindler himself, sits on the edge of the house facing west. In the morning, it serves as a shady place for her to start her day with coffee, reading, and emails. “In the evening, it’s where psychedelic sunsets happen,” she comments. “And where I sit my spontaneous dinner guests while I make an impromptu pasta.” 

The kitchen nook is a multi-purpose space, so she doesn’t keep much here other than a bowl of citrus and whatever that moment requires. “The bowl is from a time when I first fell in love with Mexico and Oaxaca,” she comments. “It’s such a perfect expression of its rustic yet elegant qualities.” When she is cooking and entertaining, the items she uses in the space all carry their own special significance: The copitas she serves her mezcal in were custom made from a collaboration with her friend Perla Valtierra, the coasters were gifts from her friends Nadia and Laila Gohar, and the candle holder from a day when her friends Rebecca Jezek and Massimiliano Locatelli showed her how to shop antique silver in Milan. When asked about her process of setting up space and deciding how it would be used, Aglietti said simply, “I’m not sure I have one other than following the light and my feelings, and the needs and feelings of the people I’m sharing space with. I guess this is what makes a happy place.”

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