This is not the party pad you might have expected
Don’t expect to find bongs, water pipes and empty packets of Funyuns at the Los Angeles-area home of Will Htun.
When we asked to look inside the home of the CEO of cannabis brand Sherbinskis, we found a sleek and minimal space where he could host chef-catered, cannabis-paired dinners on the rooftop and take meetings in a high-ceilinged front room.
Htun, 34, moved into the 2,700-square-foot townhouse in July 2016, after he and brand founder Mario Sherbinski, based in San Francisco, decided it would make an ideal live/work space. With its three en-suite bedrooms, Htun opens up the home to associates in town for business instead of housing them in a serviced apartment.
“Our work influences a lot of how we live here,” said Htun. “We’re so focused on work that we wanted [to wake up], drop into our front room and sit at a giant conference table and get on with it.”
Displayed are pieces that tap into Htun’s other interests: a collectible Lego robot and a Jabba the Hutt figurine bought from Colette in Paris before it closed, and a signed bottle of tequila from Casa Azul of its priciest variety; only 500 bottles were made, valued at $3,000 each.
Behind the office is what Htun describes as the heart of the home, a place where he likes to “lounge and reset. I travel a lot, but I love this area on the weekends,” he said. A friend of Htun’s owns Capsule, a Los Angeles design studio, and custom-made a cream-colored sectional couch for him, which sits atop a rug from West Elm and is decorated with a sheepskin throw from Room & Board. One of the few obvious signs of the business: Bright orange trays — the color echoes Sherbinskis packaging — were custom-made, and hold cannabis paraphernalia like buds, rolling papers and vape pens. A set of orange chairs from Modernica is moved around where they are needed.
Given his work and travel schedule, Htun enjoys gathering people on the rooftop over multicourse dinners, where strains of cannabis are paired as a wine might be. (The space is furnished with teak pieces from fernish.com , a Los Angeles-based company that rents out pieces on a monthly subscription model.)
Sherbinski, who hangs his hat at the Htun pad when he’s in L.A., said these latenight gatherings for as many as 18 people are a way to enjoy good food and a smoke together, as they might in Amsterdam.
“Cannabis and food go hand in hand,” said Sherbinski. “Here, we sit around and talk about cannabis and culture, and people can have a drink, smoke a little and then crash here afterwards. It’s the best kind of evening.”
Go online to latimes.com/home for more photographs of the home.
‘Cannabis and food go hand in hand.’ — Mario Sherbinski, CEO of cannabis brand Sherbinskis