Clockwise from left: The sleek kitchen is a study in white and metallic. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG’s Hoarfrost Sand hangs in the hallway, where a BARCELONA chaise longue beckons. The family poses by the pool.
When Skye and Mark Hoppus, along with their 13-year-old son, Jack, pulled up their California roots and decamped to London almost five years ago, they suspected that it would change their lives, expand their community and alter their global perspective. But it wasn’t until they returned to their house in Beverly Hills that they understood how much their time as expats would transform them—from their take on geopolitics all the way down to their taste in chairs. “Our home is very midcentury, designed by architect Hal Levitt, and we love it,” says Skye, who is from Dana Point, graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu, and ran the West Coast music office of MTV for years before she married Mark, the bassist and vocalist for San Diego-bred pop-punk band blink-182. “When we first moved in, it was easy to go with that American vintage style. But when we went to London, and saw all of the amazing antiques there and in Paris—most of which were made before the United States was even a country—we developed such an appreciation for [them].” Towing a shipping container filled with a cozy club chair, old wooden tables, vintage planters, and new art pieces from the likes of Banksy and Damien Hirst, the family returned in 2014 with a challenge: to incorporate the very old with the semi-new, and blend the best
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