Six people on the Mesa, about nine houses a year
We started Linden in 2014 in a garage off Cliff Drive with one client, a Riviera house that needed everything.
Twelve years later we are six people in a converted workshop on the Mesa, with a sample library of about four thousand fabrics, stones and finishes and a small warehouse in Goleta where every delivery lands before it reaches your house.
We take on about nine houses a year and a steady run of single rooms. That number is deliberate: it is how many we can do while one designer stays with each house from the first visit to the last lamp.
Elena Marsh
Principal designer
James Okoro
Senior designer, kitchens and baths
Maya Castellanos
Designer
Theo Brandt
Project manager
Grace Lindqvist
Designer
Rafael Ortiz
Install lead
Three rules we do not bend
Where our houses have appeared
Architectural Digest
Riviera house
2025
Los Angeles Times
Mission Canyon house
2025
Elle Decor
Summerland cottage
2024
The New York Times
Ojai farmhouse
2024
Wallpaper
Mesa bungalow
2023
Visit the studio
1418 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109
Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, by appointment. Parking in the lot behind the building.
Start with two hours at your house
A designer walks every room with you, measures, listens, and sends written notes the same week. The visit is $450, and it comes off your design fee if we go on to work together.