Noa Santos

Noa Santos is an interior designer rather than an architect, and this record exists only because his name appeared in a listing description in this archive. The distinction matters when researching a house: an interior designer shapes the finishes, furnishing and spatial feel of a residence, while the building itself is the work of its architect. If a listing credits Noa Santos, the architect of record is someone else. What can be sourced about him is his business history rather than a building list. He founded the interior-design company Homepolish, which paired clients with designers on an hourly, subscription-style model and became one of the better-known attempts to make professional interior design accessible outside the luxury tier. Forbes named him to its 30 Under 30 list for Art & Style in 2016, at the age of 27. He later founded the design studio NAINOA, working on residential interiors. No portfolio of completed Los Angeles houses is published here, because none can be responsibly attributed to him as architect. An earlier auto-generated version of this record described his work in the language of architectural practice — "architectural integrity", a body of Southern California residential work — which overstated what the sources support. It has been replaced with this note.