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64 HANG LOOSE

Revel in the creative space of S.F. interior designer Jonathan Rachman.

Alexandra Dwek hosts potlucks with a purpose in Bel Air.

Kelly Sawyer Patricof enlists designer Brigette Romanek to work her magic on her young family’s Malibu Colony beach cottage.

Cox London casts its innovative aesthetic across the pond to L.A.’s Rose Tarlow Melrose House.

Dekor&Co. breezes into Ojai.

Playful ceramics, Western prints and timeless French furnishings for every space. Plus, blooms that deliver.

40 NATURAL SELECTION

Known for her Vegas flash, designer Megan Tagliaferri takes things down (just a notch) at her own boho-glam Belmont Shore residence.

22 TREND

At home with Oscar-winning actress and design aficionado Diane Keaton.

Who’s who behind the scenes of spring’s C Home—and their go-to picks for California design.

15 DOSSIER

Blush beauties: Pretty-in-pink home accents are making a splash.

24 LANDSCAPE

Off the deep end: State-of-the-art poolscapes from the Hollywood Hills to Montecito.

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Four designers at the top of their game share their views on outdoor living.

47 WELCOME HOME

Where nature and nurture coexist.

48 MASTER OF THE HOUSE

58 ABOVE IT ALL

In a South of Market penthouse, Bay Area interior designer David Oldroyd sculpts ultra-refined decor with a cosmopolitan air.

72 SEA CHANGE

80 ROOM TO GROW

For Manhattan-based architect Eliot Lee, building a Napa Valley retreat for his parents has proven to be an ongoing and joy-filled journey.

86 SLEEPING BEAUTY

A neglected Mediterranean estate is transformed into a modern sanctuary.

90 COLLAGE

Hutton Wilkinson takes it to the max.

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WHO’S WHO BEHIND THE SCENES OF THIS MONTH’S ISSUE, PLUS THEIR FAVORITE CALIFORNIA PLACES

Hutton Wilkinson “I think of myself as a maximalist designer, meeting with equal enthusiasm the challenges of decorating an apartment on Russian Hill or a historic estate in Bel Air,” says Hutton Wilkinson, CEO and creative director of Tony Duquette Inc. The influential interior and jewelry designer’s worldly tastes and California mood are featured in “Collage” (p.90).

C SPOTS • La Luz Del Dia Restaurant in Downtown L.A. • Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino • Mendocino for the cliffs and town

Degen Pener Megan Tagliaferri “This residence was created to capture our California-modern and earthy beach lifestyle in our cherished Belmont Shores neighborhood,” says interior designer Megan Tagliaferri, who opened up the doors to her eclectic abode in “Sea Change”

“Working on the pool story made me eager for summer to get here! And I hope my next house has a pool because the designs I discovered doing this story

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are ones I never would have imagined,” says editor and author Degen Pener of “Into the Blue” (p.24). Pener is a contributing culture editor at The Hollywood Reporter, and has previously worked for publications such as Angeleno, InStyle and Santa Barbara Magazine. C SPOTS • The Chemosphere residence by John Lautner in Los Angeles • Lotusland in Montecito • Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur

(p.72). As the principal designer and partner of FLO Design Studio, her global-glamour approach spans from restaurants and health spas in L.A. to casinos and hotels in Las Vegas. C SPOTS • Shopping on Abbot Kinney • Carmel for Mother Nature and

Amanda Tisch Weitzman “Working on the C Home issue makes me appreciate living in such a diverse and culturally forward place. I love the juxtaposition of a grand San Francisco penthouse with a cozy beach home in Malibu,” says C’s Home + Design Editor, Amanda Tisch Weitzman. She also has a line of place mats and coasters, Tisch New York, debuting this spring at Barneys New York. C SPOTS • Harbinger in West Hollywood • Huntington Park in Pacific Palisades • The Hamon Tower at the de Young Museum

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DOSSIER Unusual Suspects

Meet the strange beauty that is Cox London

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LISA ROMEREIN

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The Serpent table by Cox London is cast in bronze and features guinea-fowl feathers laid under a glass top.

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FROM LEFT The Oak Leaf mirror by Cox London hangs over the Otto console and Scalloped coffee table by Rose Tarlow Melrose House. Cox London’s Bronze Grotto lamp. The Goddess lamp by Cox London features a brass sun cradled by a hand-forged bronze iron base.

ox London designers Nicola and Christopher Cox live in a world in which medieval-inspired altars double as dining tables and chandeliers resemble bronzed lava flows. Enter L.A. designer Rose Tarlow, who discovered the pair’s Brutalist-meets-classicist workshop while on a trip to London in 2012.

“We had instant respect for her attention to detail,” says Nicola of the esteemed decorator, synonymous with a clean-lined, refined sensibility. “She knows her game better than most.”

The feeling was mutual: Tarlow invited the husband-andwife team to exclusively launch their line stateside with Rose Tarlow Melrose House last spring, marking the first time she’s represented a brand outside of her own. “Rose’s aesthetic has always been the best—often eccentric, but beautiful,” says Nicola, a New Zealander who met Christopher (who hails from a long line of antiquarians) while studying fine art sculpture at London’s Wimbledon College of Arts.

Citing influences ranging from Giacometti to Mondrian, Cox London’s latest works “straddle several centuries of style”—from the Ferro Vitro chandelier, a steel-forged three-dimensional constructivist grid replete with handblown glass cubes, to the Bibliothèque, a freestanding wall unit of cast-glass wired lanterns, hand-beaten brass cupboards and steel mesh storage areas.

But you ain’t seen nothing yet: “The coming year will be more experimental than ever,” promises Nicola. rosetarlow.com.

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Home Run

Interior decorator Isabelle Dahlin, owner of home store deKor in Echo Park, is serving up a second dose of high design with her new Ojai boutique, deKor&Co. “I have always wanted to live in Ojai since I visited here about 16 years ago,” says Dahlin, who partnered with Rachel Marlowe, a writer and editor, to open the 2,500-squarefoot space stocked with bohemian touchpoints including alpaca throws, a Face Stockholm makeup station and a tea bar. Dahlin sought to conjure the town’s tranquility in the environs: “It’s an amazing and very healing place,” she says. “We tried to make the shop have the same feeling—where you could hang out and relax.”

105 S. Montgomery St., Ojai, 805-272-8675; dekorandco.com.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP Dahlin and Marlowe outside their Ojai boutique. A mandarinand-clove scented candle. Inside the design-wise lifestyle shop.

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National Treasure “I’ve always believed everything has a story,” says photographer Curtis Speer, who turns his lens toward inanimate objects often overlooked in day-to-day life. “It’s an effort to allow people to be present in a fast-moving world,” adds the Laguna Beach-based artist. Mounted in maple and raw-walnut frames handmade in L.A., his large-scale prints take on a painterly sensibility with classic Americana themes and golden California light. Available at Harbinger, 752 N. La Cienega Blvd., W.H., 310-858-6884; harbingerla.com.

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American Conscience, No.3, $3,600.

Sky High

Handcrafted in a village in Myanmar, interior designer Joan Behnke’s artisanal lacquered Floating Cloud tables add a vibrant and worldly touch to any home palette. Available at Micucci, Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., W.H., 310-360-7323; micucciarte.com; joanbehnke.com.

A trio of Floating Cloud tables, $2,200 each.

STAY AWHILE

Spanning nearly four decades of boundary-pushing hospitality, residential and nightlife design, Ian Schrager: Works (Rizzoli, $75) details the worldwide empire of the man behind such glittering addresses as Gramercy Park Hotel, Studio 54 and Mondrian Los Angeles, with musings by the likes of starchitects John Pawson and Jacques Herzog.

Cover image of guest-room windows at the Saint Martins Lane hotel in London. Oversize flowerpots of roses at Mondrian Los Angeles.

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Ralph Lauren’s new Corral Canyon collection of furniture and home wares recalls the sunny beaches of Malibu with hints of the high desert. The rusticglam line—awash in a palette of soft blush pinks and warm chocolate tones— includes tooled leather frames, Southwestern-inspired pillows, raffia trays and a studded Douglas-fir chest.

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DOSSIER WEST HOLLYWOOD

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Furniture and accessories mogul Thomas Lavin unveils a sparkling remodeled space at the Pacific Design Center, and with it, a new addition: a 3,000-square-foot Christian Liaigre showroom. Dotted with signature pieces from the renowned French designer, the enclave is filled with a well-edited mix of items such as the clean-lined St. Germain Chair and the sleek Corvette Desk. “Christian Liaigre is French but his designs are for the world,” says Lavin.

Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., W.H., 310-278-2456; thomaslavin.com.

Christian Liaigre’s Oceán Sectional and Autan Chaise on display at Thomas Lavin.

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Floored Forward-thinking L.A. designers the Haas Brothers and David Wiseman lent their avant-whimsical touches to a new series of limited-edition rugs from R & Company and ABC Italia. The creatives traveled to Kathmandu to meet the local artisans who would produce their statement pieces, each emblazoned with mesmerizing organic patterns comprising more than 4 million knots. “The skill of the weavers allows for an astounding level of detail,” says Wiseman. r-and-company.com.

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A BloomThat arrangement. The sleek bar at Fleurish.

Need a floral arrangement for an impromptu dinner party or a last-minute gift? In San Francisco, new florist BloomThat will deliver fresh, just-pluckedfrom-the-garden flowers in jute-wrapped tin vases in 90 minutes or less (from $35; bloomthat.com).

For do-it-yourself options, look no further than Fleurish in Brentwood, founded by Amy Marella.

Pick up an “iFleur” tablet, or iPad, at the DIY flower bar for a quick step-by-step tutorial, and choose from nine custom Fleurkits stocked with the essentials (from $35 plus $5 studio fee; 11906 San Vicente Blvd., Brentwood, 310-575-8755; youfleurish.com).

Animal Planet rug designed by the Haas Brothers (edition of 12), price upon request.

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For utility-meets-chic, look to Amanda Wright Pottery, whose white or black clay creations outfitted with chain links take cues from the Napa Valley-based ceramicist’s former days in fashion and costume design. From $495-$1,495; Cavalier by Jay Jeffers, 1035 Post St., S.F., 415-440-7300; cavaliergoods.com.

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Christian Liaigre solid bronze St. Germain chair, $17,873.

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DOSSIER trend Pegaso Gallery Design Wonderful Chinoiserie mirror, $4,200, 1stdibs.com.

Tickled Pink

Black lacquer, tones of blue and a hint of brass give blush a modern edge Coleen & Company The Tole Tent Semi Flush pendant, starting at $1,575, coleenandcompany.com.

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Madeline Weinrib Jolie carpet, starting at $3,000, madelineweinrib.com.

A reading room in a Brentwood home with a sofa and chair upholstered in textiles from Jaipur, India.

Richard Ginori Oriente Italiano plate, $120, barneys.com.

Kelly Wearstler botanical tray, $495, kellywearstler.com.

Aerin Sea Urchin match striker, $250, aerin.com.

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Peter Dunham Textiles Kashmir Paisley pillow, $175, hollywoodathome.com.

Serena & Lily Parisian side table, $795, serenaandlily.com.

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DOSSIER landscape

Rios Clementi Hale Studios’ light box-like pool for a client in the Hollywood Hills.

ABOVE

Into the Blue

New-wave designs elevate swimming pools to works of art BY DEGEN PENER

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efore Beverly Hills-based landscape architect Garett Carlson popularized the infinity-edge in the ’80s, California swimming pools were slaves to function. “The old-fashioned pool was 20-by-40 [feet] with light blue tile and a diving board,” says Carlson. Today’s styles have swung far in the other direction. “The really big trend [is] making a pool something spectacular that is more than a swimming pool,” says Jennifer Schab, a senior associate at L.A.’s Rios Clementi Hale Studios.

Take a recent project by the firm in the Hollywood Hills: A narrow strip of water along one side of the modern house is an integral design element with multiple functions. It’s a reflecting pool for 60-year-old olive trees plus an architectural feature, drawing the eye out to the city views. At night, it’s lit by LEDs that change colors. “It serves as a kind of giant light box,” says Schab.

In Santa Monica, a couple commissioned light-and-space artist James Turrell to put one of his famed skyspace installations over their outdoor dining area, providing a stunning backdrop to the pool.

One of the pioneers of inspired pool design was Thomas Church, whose 1948 kidney-shaped pool for a Sonoma residence—featuring a sculptural island by artist Adaline Kent—is a landmark. Today, his love of unconventional shapes is embraced by Santa Barbara landscape architect Susan Van Atta, who conceived of a narrow ellipse for the pool at her own residence.

Of course, if budget doesn’t allow for commissioning a worldclass artist or even starting over from scratch, there’s one easy way to update an outdated rectangular model: “Bring it down to 12 feet wide,” says Carlson, “and it’s a really modern, slick lap pool.” •

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CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT Thomas Church’s 1948 kidney-shaped design. A sleek, slender pool by Roche + Roche Landscape Architecture in Napa Valley. Landscape architect Susan Van Atta’s perfect ellipse at her home in Montecito.

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James Turrell’s skyspace installation reflected in a pool in Santa Monica.

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INSIDER Out of This World

S.F. interior designer Jonathan Rachman mines tradition and travel to give his modern interiors international elegance and wit

AUBRIE PICK

BY DIANE DORRANS SAEKS

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The designer (in his Dogpatch studio) dramatizes the decor with the juxtaposition of “Billy the Goat,” a rare vintage display character from the defunct luxury department store I. Magnin, sculptural mannequins and an antique Indonesian cabinet.

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FROM FAR LEFT Jonathan

cool mist blurs early-morning Russian Hill at a stately shingled residence where Jonathan Rachman is hard at work: As his assistants unwrap silver, he aligns a petite mossgreen velvet sofa beneath an antique gold-framed Swedish mirror, and deftly swoops an armful of ivory garden roses into an antique crystal vase.

“My passion is to work with stylistic underpinnings of classical design but to make it unexpected and less formulaic,” says Rachman, whose iconoclastic San Francisco

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firm, Jonathan Rachman Design, is shaking up the establishment.

Originally from history-rich Sumatra, Rachman made his first design-business foray with a floral and accessories boutique on Clement Street, Fleur’T, which attracted the likes of Marc Jacobs, Sarah Jessica Parker, Madonna and Oprah, thanks to his self-professed “relaxed spontaneity” aesthetic. These days he works from a design studio in the Dogpatch district, servicing clients from California to New York to Bali and Singapore, who come to him for his particular blend of Old and New World. “I like a sense of history, but rooms must be current and contemporary,” he says.

Prizing harmony and functionality but with a weakness for eccentricity, handcrafted Asian textiles and surprising art, Rachman is also an unabashed Anglophile, using menswear tweeds and twill or herringbone fabrics inspired by London tailoring for pillows, curtains or a table covering. As a lifelong collector of precious objects, his clients’ rooms and his atelier are textured with a curious and lively trove of the vintage, salvaged and rare. “It’s references and traces of the past that add meaning and biography to a room,” he says.

Beyond his residential commissions, Rachman is currently busy with myriad side projects, including the new JRD fabric range The Sisters for San Mateo-based Bolt Textiles, and a glamorous J. Rachman collection of Italian leather goods and embellished glassware that is launching in the summer. The prolific decorator seems to feed off the packed schedule: “I’m just getting started,” he says. jonathanrachman.com. •

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Rachman’s atelier collections include portraits, vintage surgical lamps and quizzical eyeglasses.

BELOW The San Francisco Decorator Showcase room that launched his career in 2012.

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Sweet Charity

At home in Bel Air, Alexandra Dwek indulges her passions for entertaining and helping others

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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Alexandra Dwek at home.

The table setting. Each guest brings a dish of their choosing. Partygoers gather in Dwek’s pool house for a presentation on the evening’s featured charity.

hen Alexandra Dwek sent out the invite to her inaugural charitable potluck dinner initiative, Friends with Causes, her mission was lofty: to create a new paradigm for giving back to the community. “There are a lot of small charities that I care about that I can help,” says Dwek, an active member on the board of nonprofits including The Music Center’s Blue Ribbon, and former president of The Colleagues, which channels its efforts into fundraising for Children’s Institute, Inc. Two years ago, she came up with the concept of a potluck dinner series hosted at her Colonial-style Ferguson & Shamamian-designed manse in Bel Air, benefiting a rotating featured charity of her choice. Causes range from Santa Monica’s Upward Bound House, which helps homeless families, to My Friend’s Place in Hollywood—an organization targeting youth on the streets—and, most recently, Lipstick Angels, which offers makeup artist services to patients fighting chronic disease. “I didn’t want to ask people to spend a lot

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of money,” says Dwek, so in addition to bringing a dish, philanthropic-minded guests—which include the likes of Wendy Burch, Brooke Davenport and Julia Sorkin—are asked to make a suggested donation of $100 (“the equivalent to a nice meal in Los Angeles,” explains the hostess). Often, after hearing about the charity’s mission during predinner drinks and a presentation, attendees are inspired to give more.

Guests gather in Dwek’s airy kitchen designed by Michael S. Smith for a feast served buffet-style (which runs the gamut from private chef-prepared entrees like homemade pasta with pesto and black truffles to crab cakes from The Ivy and freshbaked oatmeal raisin cookies from Thyme Café and Market) before taking their seats around Dwek’s two grand 18thcentury dining tables. “The trick is to start out small,” says Dwek, whose dinners began with a guest list of 15 and have nearly doubled in size since then. The newest name at the table? Dwek’s 17-year-old daughter, Cairo. “She’s participating because she’s looking to start a chapter for girls her own age,” says Dwek. The gift that keeps on giving, indeed. •

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C HOME

An insider’s tour of California’s stylish homes and gardens ALL

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BASIC INSTINCTS The Beverly Hills family residence of fashion designer Jenni Kayne and realtor Richard Ehrlich offers exalted quietude for reflection and play

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STYLISH LISTINGS Contemporary Seaside Estate with 270 degree views. Designed by noted architect, Brion Jeannette, this private seaside sanctuary captures ocean, Santa Catalina Island, harbor and beach views from all living areas. This magnificent estate wraps around the only unobstructed point on Ocean Avenue. www.3729OceanBlvd.com 3729 Ocean Boulevard Corona del Mar, California $29,999,000

The Georgina Jacobson Group 949-285-8380 georgina@georginajacobson.com

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South Coast Plaza

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celebrates california living aSSouline • BaCCarat • BlooMingDale’S hoMe • Crate anD Barrel hoMe Store • Diptyque eMMo hoMe • Frette • herMÈS • Jo Malone • the lanD oF noD • MaCy’S hoMe Furniture Store MitChell golD + BoB williaMS • pBteen • pottery Barn • pottery Barn KiDS • reStoration harDware rooM & BoarD • Sur la taBle • VerSaCe • weSt elM • williaMS-SonoMa • z gallerie

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Natural Selection Four California-based designers share their al fresco projects and sentiments on outdoor living

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An outdoor screen set above the pool at Haenisch’s Beverly Hills home.

Optoma HD26 projector, $699, amazon.com.

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David Sutherland Lakeshore armless chaise, sutherlandfurniture.com.

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Heidi Merrick pillow, $235, heidimerrick.com.

Tuuci Hexagon Shade umbrella, $1,720, and stand, $553, dwr.com.

HAENISCH: SUSAN B. LANDAU. OUTDOOR SPACE: PEDEN + MUNK

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California living is all about bringing the outside in and the inside out. I love to heat the pool and swim at night. Having an outdoor screen allows me to watch “Monday Night Football,” TV or a movie. It is the perfect way to relax. During my last party, we [screened] The Rocky Horror Picture Show, one of my all-time favorites.

An equestrian ring and barn-slash–art studio are adjacent to the lounge area of this Smith-designed project.

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SMITH: CINDY GOLD. OUTDOOR SPACE: MELANIE ACEVEDO

Williams-Sonoma Home linked-circles garden seat, $450, williams-sonoma.com.

RH Belgian slope-arm outdoor lounge chair, from $1,995, restorationhardware.com.

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Suzanne Kasler Morris lantern, $496, circalighting.com.

I fell into California nearly 30 years ago for a pass-through visit that literally never ended. We are so fortunate to have perfect days most of the year, and for that reason our outdoor living spaces are every bit as essential as our indoor rooms. This incredible Sullivan Canyon estancia is a sublime example of that. The covered loggia is on an axis with the barn. Perfection occurs when architecture and design supports lifestyle so seamlessly.

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Janus et Cie Amalfi Star cocktail table, $4,987, janusetcie.com.

An outdoor dining area at a Pacific Palisades home designed by Marks.

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Richard Wrightman Chatwin dining chair, $2,800, desousahughes.com.

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Nickey Kehoe Modern concrete and resin planter, $475, 1stdibs.com.

First and foremost, I design for comfort. Whether it is indoors or outdoors, the furniture and antiques are always spacious and inviting; the space must be welcoming for both [its] owner and guests. Outdoor living is the California lifestyle, and I take advantage of the fact that living outdoors is something we are able to do year-round. You want that living space to be a natural extension of, and to coexist with, your indoor space.

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ALLAN MARKS: MELISSA VALLADARES. OUTDOOR SPACE: DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN

Treillage English Street Light lantern, $1,675, treillageny.com.

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I live in what I like to refer to as the Tree House—a glorious redwood structure designed in 1959 by Warren Callister in San Francisco. It is surrounded by painterly Japanese-inspired gardens with huge doors opening to my own private forest. The line between indoor and outdoor is so blurred that it is difficult to determine where the gardens begin and the house ends. We frequently entertain on the terrace, which offers expansive views from bridge to bridge. The city looks like Oz twinkling down below. All this, and a coyote who lives across the street. Where else but in California?

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RH column table, starting at $1,315, restorationhardware.com.

Interlude leather Greer tray, $525, hdbuttercup.com.

Alberto Pinto Potager gold buffet plate, $398, tableartonline.com.

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A view of Fulk’s tree-lined terrace creates a feeling of being in the woods.

Inner Gardens castcement urn, $1,850, 1stdibs.com.

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WELCOME HOME Founders Letter

When we conceived of C Home it was because we knew that our editors (with 10 years of experience with C—California’s first lifestyle magazine) could scour the state and present the best in interiors, gardens, designers, furniture and objets d’art. Many try to highlight life in the Golden State, but we believe that only locals can really tell the story…and what a story it is.

The way we actually live here is unique in its own right. The outdoors is as much a part of our living space as the indoors, and a successful home works when the two blend seamlessly, as evidenced in the remarkable residences we’ve featured thus far.

Our first three subscription-only issues last year proved a rewarding experiment. The response was so overwhelming that with this issue we’re opening it up to a broader base and branching out with newsstand copies.

To have icon Diane Keaton on the cover of our first widely distributed issue is thrilling to say the least. Her singular style is fascinating to witness in her sartorial choices, but to see this one-ofa-kind perspective and demonstrated passion for architecture and design manifested in her Pacific Palisades project is to really get a glimpse of the woman herself.

If that’s not enough, we also bring you distinct homes from Long Beach to Beverly Hills; from Malibu to Napa; and places in between—each brimming with beauty, each thoughtfully considering its environs. You will want to take note and, if you are like me (or Keaton, as evidenced in her wonderful office), rip a few pages out to put in your inspiration folder.

Jennifer Hale Founder & Editorial Director

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Master of the House

At home with Oscar-winning actress and design aficionado Diane Keaton

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entryway, furnished with a wood crate filled with pillows and an antique Spanish chandelier. OPPOSITE Keaton and her beloved golden retriever, C 00 Emmie, share a moment on the bluff outside her Pacific Palisades home.

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E ALL WANT TO LIVE IN Diane Keaton’s world. For some of us, it’s the actress’s on-screen digs that tempt; say, the 11-bedroom oceanfront shingled Southampton estate; or the white clapboard two-story in Pasadena with the rose-strewn picket fence (see: Nancy Meyers’ Something’s Gotta Give and Father of the Bride, respectively). For others, it’s any of the real-life marvels she’s renovated and sold, including the 1926 Wallace Neff-designed Spanish-style domicile in Beverly Hills and the Lloyd Wright-built Mayanesque landmark Samuel-Novarro House in Los Feliz. The point is, the actress, author, fashion icon, and architecture and design enthusiast dwells, works and moves in beauty. Which makes it all the more compelling that she moves a lot. “One thing I really can’t stand is thinking that anything is set in stone,” she says. “I don’t ever want to live like that.”

Keaton found herself between residences two-and-a-half years ago when she made an offer on her current abode, a traditional Connecticut-style shingled farmhouse set off a windswept bluff in Pacific Palisades. At the time she’d recently purchased a lot in Sullivan Canyon—upon which she is currently in the process of building a ranch-style compound—and planned to rent in the interim. But renting posed a problem: “You can’t mess around with things,” she explains. “I thought, ‘Oh, I don’t want to buy it. I’ve never owned a spec house,’” she adds. “But then I did because…well, where else was I going to live?” She asks the question with an imploring purpose, as if she really expects you to weigh in, then laughs that authentically tickled-by-it-all Diane Keaton laugh.

She became enamored with her nest, precisely because she didn’t see it coming: “I moved in and fell in love,” she says. “I wasn’t trying to find the perfect house. I was just looking for a nice place to live and feel comfortable.”

For her, comfort means living in black-and-white, a sartorial and stylistic trademark. “People [should be] the color in a home,” she says. “People coming and going really do punch [things] up.”

This being Diane Keaton, her high-contrast scheme, which mixes beloved Spanish antiques with eccentric curios, rustic decor and industrial statements, is plenty punchy: from the Pop Art-styled polka-dot-painted walls in the guest room; to a self-described “tack room” vignette in the hallway, replete with striped James Perse towels and playful wooden Boston terrier doorstops; to her vast collection of photographs—David Wojnarowicz’s haunting Untitled (Buffalo), Garry Winogrand’s suburban vision Albuquerque, New Mexico 1957 and a steamy Bruce Weber portrait of a young Matt Dillon among them. “Of course Matt Dillon,” she says. “He’s gorgeous.”

Still, there are saturated winks: fresh orange banksia blooms and blue ticking pillows in the bedroom, and a deep green miniature wooden house in the sitting room—part of a wider assemblage inspired by Pinterest. “I’m on that Internet all the time and just stealing ideas,” she says of the collection. “I’m a thief. And I have a lot of romantic dreams of what people hope for in a >>

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Keaton’s guest room is decorated with hand-painted polka dots. “It’s dominating. I’m sure that some of my friends who sleep over are like, get me out of this room!” she says.

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Her office, an airy retreat in the basement furnished with a monumental 12-foot-wide steel-topped desk with a vintage railroad wheelbase, and an explosion of tear sheets that blanket the floor, is her sacred lair. “I always had a problem with Spanish homes because the living room is [the focus],” she says. “For me, the office is where I am.”

Keaton’s made good use of the space; since moving in she has produced the follow-up to her 2007 title California Romantica (an ode to California Mission and Spanish Colonial architecture): the 2012 book House, a lush investigation of farm and factory buildings brilliantly reimagined by the likes of Annabelle Selldorf and Adam Kalkin. She also published a memoir, last spring’s Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty, which name-checks such high-profile former paramours as Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino.

“It’s a house where I’ve had new ideas and played around,” she says. “But my prevailing memory will be that it’s a family house.

It’s warm and fun and I watched my son [Duke] and daughter [Dexter] get two years older here.”

Living by the water full-time “changes everything,” Keaton says, and has brought her back to her own formative years growing up in L.A.: “My dad loved the ocean and he made it even more romantic for me. Every weekend we would go to Doheny Beach; I always think of him when I walk on that bluff and look down.”

It’s the bluff that will be hardest to leave when construction on her new address in Sullivan Canyon is finally complete—not that there’s an end date: “The next time I talk to you it will still be being built,” she jokes. “I’ll be like that Winchester [Mystery House] woman.” Of course, Keaton, of all people, revels in the unknown: “This is where I am right now and this is what feels good. But I won’t always be here—we aren’t always going to be anywhere really,” she says. “To me it’s magical to see how different things look in different places. I think that’s [how] we have to look at ourselves: Put us in a different place, we’re different.” •

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The bedroom is furnished with an antique Spanish bed frame and images including a snapshot of Keaton with her son, Duke, and a photograph from Ruven Afanador’s “Torero” series. OPPOSITE A “tack room” vignette in the hall comprises C 00 striped James Perse towels and canine doorstops.

In the bedroom, an apothecary cabinet is topped with a sampling of Keaton’s extensive collection of hats. A diptych of copies of Herb Ritts’ photographs of Sandra Bernhard’s mouth provides a dynamic backdrop.

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Outside Keaton’s office, a factory light frames a photograph she found at L.A. design shop Obsolete.

“There’s something textural about it that I really think is beautiful,” she says.

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ABOVE IT ALL In a South of Market penthouse, Bay Area interior designer David Oldroyd sculpts ultra-refined decor with a cosmopolitan air

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In the dining room, a Dale Chihuly sculpture hangs above the custom-carved walnut dining table. Classic 1959 dining chairs

by Ole Wanscher are upholstered in textured Calvin C Fabrics.

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ROM THE 60TH FLOOR of a luxury high-rise in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, the distant Farallon Islands seem close enough to spot their resident rare birds through good binoculars. On a clear day it might even be possible to zoom in on the Carneros vineyard where your favorite wine is produced. But it’s the penthouse’s sunny and animated vista to the east and south, with tankers bobbing in the bay and planes aloft over SFO, that captured interior designer David Oldroyd’s clients’ attention.

“When the family first entered and saw the wide-open raw space, they requested that the interiors should not distract from the endless panorama,” says Oldroyd, director of design firm ODADA. With unfettered eyelines as his brief, Oldroyd set out to create a complementary custom-detailed tableau that would look entirely effortless, embracing a color palette that hovers between cloud white, foggy pale taupe and palest sky blue for an effect that is lighter than air.

There’s a sense of quiet luxury, with a triangular bleached pommele sapele gallery wall, sculptural and monolithic, at the entrance; an ethereal gold-painted verre églomisé screen separating a bedroom and a bathroom; and silk carpets composed of abstract swirls shimmering in the afternoon light.

Oldroyd selected curving dining chairs to animate the angularity of the space, and obsessed over the jigsaw-puzzle shapes of the limestone flooring, seeking out trapezoidal custom-crafted bronze door pulls to mimic the floor plan.

“It’s the ultimate pied-à-terre,” he says with satisfaction, before diplomatically pointing out that selling points abound outside too: “The family can enjoy the cultural riches of the city and catch up on the newest restaurants—and the ballet is 10 minutes away.” •

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On the 60th-floor terrace, with views over the bay to the east and the piers of Mission Bay below, Oldroyd created a practical, weatherproof composition with a quartet of aluminum Brown Jordan chairs surrounding a Brown Jordan metal table. OPPOSITE Custom-made sofas and a low table are made of glass fiberâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; reinforced concrete.

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Kelly Sawyer Patricof enlists designer Brigette Romanek to work her magic on her young family’s Malibu Colony beach cottage

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A pair of Becker paddleboards beside a bistro table and chairs set with pillows from fashion designer Gregory Parkinson’s forthcoming debut home line. OPPOSITE Patricof, in a silk shirtdress by Rochas, stands with her Linus Bike at the front of her house.

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A graphic rug from Lawrence of La Brea and a cocktail table made from an aged tree stump (which Romanek found in Kelly’s hometown, Vancouver, BC) anchor the living room.

Romanek helped the Patricofs assemble a collection of vintage pottery and objets, many of which she found at the West Hollywood antique shop Inheritance.

OR MOST OF THE YEAR, Kelly Sawyer Patricof appears to be everywhere at once. As co-president of Baby2Baby, an L.A.-based nonprofit that provides child-care essentials to 80,000 children in need, she organizes fundraisers and the collection of donated goods all over town. As creative director of modish fashion boutique chain Satine, she travels around the world seeking out the latest must-have womenswear designers. And as a mother to two young daughters, she and her husband, film producer Jamie Patricof (whose recent projects include Tim Burton’s Big Eyes and the upcoming Mississippi Grind starring Ryan Reynolds), manage a steady schedule of birthday parties and sporting events.

But during the summer—and any weekend she can carve out some time away—she’s in exactly one place every day: a cozy 1950s beach cottage in the Malibu Colony that the couple purchased three years ago this summer. “We will drive up here on a Friday, park the car, and won’t get in it again until we have to go back,” she says. “The girls ride bikes everywhere. We can walk to the Colony for lunch. And what usually happens is that I sit down on the sofa and don’t move for hours!”

With help from their creative friend, handbag designer and interiors mastermind Brigette Romanek, the Patricofs transformed the whitewashed one-story ranch-style cottage into a family refuge for the kids and the perfect place for hosting, with a lawn spacious enough for a crowd and a back patio with a large stone fireplace. The goal was to make the home equal parts family-friendly and cocktail-party ready, and Romanek used the clear azure Malibu sky as a launching point, choosing pale blue chambray upholstery, paint and even wall-towall carpet in the girls’ room. A neutral, layered scheme also prevails; the kitchen is a study in white-on-white, with utilitarian dishware readily accessible thanks to open shelving, and a bull’s skull placed just-so on the countertop, to keep things interesting; in the living room, milky-hued cabinetry displays a multitude of vintage pottery and objets.

“The door is always open in that house,” says Romanek, whose daughters are the same age as the Patricof girls, and who has become a close friend since she and her husband, director Mark Romanek, moved to Los Angeles from London three years ago. “People come and go all the time, and they love to entertain. But it’s also a beach house!” she adds. “There will be sand on the floor and kids running around, and that’s the way it should be.” •

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Patricof and Romanek take a break in the dining room, where a West Elm light fixture hangs above a custom white oak table with matching benches.

OPPOSITE Patricof incorporated some vintage finds from her home in Hollywood, including a drive-in sign and a bull’s skull in the open, family-friendly kitchen.

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CLOCKWISE FROM BELOW The girls’ shared bedroom features an Ikea loft bed, turquoise reading lights from The Land of Nod, and pale robin’segg Farrow & Ball paint in Blue Ground. In the bedroom, organic cotton sheets are dressed up with a throw from Peter Dunham’s Hollywood at Home, and an upholstered bench and custom pillows from Cisco Home.

The tray tables, used as nightstands, are from Design Mix Furniture in West Hollywood. Photo of Muhammad Ali by R. McPhedran. A chair from Blu Dot in the small office, adjacent to the master bedroom.

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Known for her Vegas flash, designer Megan Tagliaferri takes things down (just a notch) at her own boho-glam Belmont Shore residence

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ELMONT SHORE, A QUIET, sandy enclave of Long Beach, is worlds away from the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip, where Megan Tagliaferri of FLO Design Studio got her start designing interiors for casinos and hotels such as the MGM Grand and Hard Rock.

“I’m a Portland [Oregon] girl, very earthy,” she says.

“And then I went to Las Vegas, so there’s that glam element. Mixing those two tells a lot about me.”

She was drawn to the coast by her husband, Jeff, a former professional baseball player and Southern California native. He had played college baseball in Long Beach, and they both fell in love with the idea of raising their family there, enchanted by the laid-back vibe and community of artists the locale attracts. “It feels like a sanctuary,” she says.

Known for her splashy hospitality projects, Tagliaferri conversely classifies her residential aesthetic as “California mod spiritual.” Nowhere is this more evident than in her own 3,800-square-foot Cape Cod-style waterfront house, where an eclectic mix of textures and art reflects her singular vision.

Works by the likes of Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Wool and Mark Hagen share space with an array of healing crystals and a clever mash-up of Danish Modern, vintage Knoll and soft antique Moroccan textiles. “My work is infused with visual and emotional textures,” she comments. “That’s where the true richness comes in.” To wit, Tagliaferri used a Japanese-style Wabi wallpaper by Calico on the walls in the entry—a backdrop for a custom FLO love seat upholstered in velvet by Brochier. In the dining room, walls are skinned with sumptuous striped Élitis wall covering beneath a ceiling of solid walnut wood slats, while the bar area features leathered granite countertops, herringbone oak floors and white walls as a canvas for a copper installation by artist Walead Beshty.

“I’m drawn to high style, but also love spaces where you can cuddle up,” Tagliaferri says—a key distinction for the mother of two, ages 8 and 5. The residence features myriad lounges and patios, making it a prime example of indoor/ outdoor family living—right down to the priceless feature that came with the house: “I can sit up on the balcony and watch the children play in the sand below,” she says. “We listen to the waves together.” •

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In the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playroom, a graphic Cole & Son wallpaper mixes with a tepee and colorful Mara Hoffman rugs. A glazed ceramic sheepskin by MaiThu Perret hangs above a vintage rosewood desk from the Netherlands with a vintage Lucite chair covered in olive velvet. The bar greets guests as they walk in the door, and features a copper installation

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In the guest room, a Moroccan wedding blanket covers a Room & Board Architecture bed, beside which a vintage Moroccan brass lamp sits atop a walnut nightstand from Design Within Reach. OPPOSITE A luxurious Picasso soaking tub from Hydro Systems contrasts against sandalus quartz stone slab walls.

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For Manhattan-based architect Eliot Lee, building a Napa Valley retreat for his parents has proven to be an ongoing and joy-filled journey

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In the mountains of Napa Valley, the home of Tatwina and Richard Lee (designed by their son, architect Eliot Lee) makes the most of its spectacular setting.

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OPPOSITE, FROM TOP The rear façade of the main structure boasts a 22foot retractable glass wall. The undulating ridgeline creates hidden dimensions that add to the property’s secluded vibe.

Y PARENTS WERE LOOKING to build a weekend house as a quick getaway from Berkeley,” says Eliot Lee, a partner with the New York firm Steven Harris Architects LLP. Situated about halfway up the mountains overlooking Calistoga, the narrow ridgeline lot required an intricate design befitting the topography.

“We were all immediately struck by the terrain,” he adds. “From day one we resolved to avoid any major earthwork and to preserve the existing flora.”

Working with his wife, architect Eun Sun Chun, the pair devised a series of spaces to rest gently on the site. “Our main home [in Berkeley] was built in 1911,” explains Tatwina Lee, Eliot’s mother, who purchased the property in 2001 with his father, ophthalmologist Richard Lee. “It’s a stately monster and I just didn’t need another one of those. We gave Eliot a program for how the new house could flow along the ridge: Live over here, play outside over there, but the vernacular is his.”

At a relatively modest 3,000 square feet, the three-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom home is furnished with vintage midcentury pieces by influential designers like Marcel Breuer and Serge Mouille, along with contemporary elements from Modulightor in New York. But the emphasis remains firmly on outdoor living, something Eliot’s parents longed for, not only with the outdoor dining room and pool but with an impressive vegetable garden that anchors one end of the property.

“They really let us run with our ideas,” he says. “The process moved along freely because we knew how they lived.” The finished result, a rammed earth, concrete and steel design, influenced by the work of Luis Barragán and Oscar Niemeyer, more than satisfies its owners, who spend several weekends there every month. “I always find an excuse to stay an extra day,” says Tatwina.

With children and grandchildren on opposite coasts, it has also been the perfect gathering place—so much so, that there’s an addition in the works with original contractor Roy Beaman. “This house is the draw—it keeps us together,” she says. •

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“WE GAVE ELIOT A PROGRAM FOR HOW THE NEW HOUSE COULD FLOW ALONG THE RIDGE: LIVE OVER HERE, PLAY OUTSIDE OVER THERE, BUT THE VERNACULAR IS HIS.”

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CLOCKWISE The living room, furnished with the help of designer Towfiq Awwal of Rees Roberts + Partners. Naturalistic landscaping by Eric and Silvina Blasen leads to the guest room. A corner of the living room offers a place for contemplation.

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SLEEPING BEAUTY A neglected Mediterranean estate is transformed into a modern sanctuary

BY HEATHER JOHN FOGARTY PHOTOGRAPHED BY LISA ROMEREIN WHEN CHAD EISNER FIRST LAID eyes on the 1930 Mediterranean manse atop Tower Road in Beverly Hills—an estate that once belonged to the late Ron Wilson, interior designer to the likes of Cher, Princess Diana and Johnny Carson—he couldn’t help but note the fairy-tale resemblance: “It was like a crumbling castle,” recalls the interior architect and designer behind C.W. Eisner, Inc. “Everything was gold leaf and swags.”

Eisner had been working with longtime clients Danica and Charles Perez to find an updated home for their family that would complement the couple’s art collection, which includes works by Robert Graham, Christopher Wool and Albert Oehlen as well as Danica’s own surreal photographs. “Unlike many of the cold and contemporary boxes we looked at, this house had spirit,” he says. “You could feel it when you walked in the door.”

Danica fell in love with the 11,000-square-foot property instantly. “It had the possibility of becoming a modern Mediterranean villa. It’s so romantic—it’s a Romeo and Juliet house,” she says of the terrace-wrapped blueprint. “Everywhere you look there’s a view.”

Eisner opened up walls to reclaim space and light and modernize the interiors. “The art was a big inspiration,” he says. He chose a toned-down palette, bleaching out the oak floors and painting walls in Benjamin Moore White Dove to allow more vibrant pieces by emerging artists to, in his words, “hold their place.”

Clean-lined, era-straddling decor fills out the floor plan; a chrome club chair from Milo Baughman and Art Deco Harris dining chairs by Joseph Jeup keep company with contemporary pieces such as a 1970s Venini Spazio Murano glass and chrome table with a high-lacquered top and custom pieces designed

by Eisner himself. “Even though it’s all current and contemporary, it’s also comfortable,” he says.

Today the bright and airy transformation has given new life and vision to the once-neglected estate—complete with a cinematic ending. “It’s a magical place,” says Danica. “A lot of good Old Hollywood parties happened in this house, and we’re continuing that tradition.” •

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In the living room, interior architect Chad Eisner created a floating marble fireplace, which is flanked by Holly Hunt club chairs and a sofa, coffee table and accent tables all by C.W. Eisner.

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The breakfast nook is furnished with vintage Jacques Adnet leather chairs, a modern Roll & Hill Agnes chandelier and an Ilya Zomb oil-on-linen painting.

The tranquil entrance. Eisner added a pop of blue leather to custom barstools for contrast with the kitchenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s onyx stone countertops and stainless Sub-Zero/Wolf appliances. Pratesi linens cover a Therien & Co. Argos Bed in the master bedroom.

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ABOVE AND LEFT Danica Perez (pictured) is passionate about her modern art collection, which includes a Jon Pestoni oil painting that hangs above a custom Coraggio mohair sofa and three wood-with-brassinlay stools by Azadeh Shladovsky.

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A Minotti dining table, with Joseph Jeup chairs in rich blue Edelman leather, sits beneath a 1950s Murano chandelier attributed to Cenedese. Perez uses her maiden name, Danica Bujic, for her photography work; two of her images hang on the dining room wall.

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COLLAGE LAUDED DESIGNERS SHARE THEIR CALIFORNIA MOOD

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“Using a hallway in my Beverly Hills home, I set the stage for my vision of the maximalist lifestyle. I incorporated decorative elements all designed under the Tony Duquette label, such as the Baker white pagodas, a Remains Lighting California Sunburst light fixture and the coral grotto chair. This more-is-more approach to the art of living and the living arts also materializes in one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry. I feel that my vision for a maximalist life defines a new epoch for the 21st century.”

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