Art in
flight.

Amit Apel’s creative life moves between painting, sculpture, furniture, interiors, and the design of buildings. The connecting thread is a maker’s instinct: an idea becomes real through the material, the hand, and the detail.

Raised across Africa, Israel, and Europe, and based in Malibu since 1999, Amit brings a broad visual history and more than three decades of his own design and making to the work. As founder and creative director of Apel Design, he leads a studio where artistic ambition meets the knowledge required to build.

Aviator carries that approach into a complete home. Its flight-inspired forms suggest a bird opening its wings above the hills. Angled planes, steel, glass, and bold red accents create movement before anyone steps inside.

The idea continues through the house: the layered entry, the geometry of the glazing, the circular openings, the art, the furniture, and the way a room turns toward a view. Each detail belongs to the larger composition.

Apel Design is the Malibu studio behind Aviator’s architecture and interiors. Its design-build approach carries Amit Apel’s creative direction through the technical decisions that turn an idea into a finished home.

Aviator’s exterior form, spatial sequence, glazing, colors, interior details, and relationship to the landscape were considered as parts of one work. The design continues from the experience of arriving to the rooms, terraces, art, and objects within it.

The studio’s broader practice includes custom homes, multifamily and commercial projects, hospitality, interiors, furniture, and original art. That range allows the team to think about the building and the life inside it together.

Architectural services are in association with Michael B. Maclaren, AIA. How the studio delivers design-build is explained at ApelDesign.com (opens in a new tab).

Designing and building are connected through the practical decisions: structure and openings, materials and fabrication, coordination between disciplines, and the care of the finished detail. The aim is a home that feels considered in daily life as well as in a photograph.

Connecting People to the Art of Living.