Growing up in the central Los Angeles neighbourhood of Echo Park proved a situation too good for American artist and designer Peter Shire to give up. But with a successful career as both a ceramicist and designer—the latter saw him join the original line up of Ettore Sottsass’s Milan-based Memphis Group—Shire is a far cry from the stay-at-home son. 

Here, the California native invites director Barbara Anastacio into the house his father built to talk growing up and the benefits of never moving out.