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PARADISE FOUND Lensman Firooz Zahedi’s ode to the alluring interiors and architectural diversity of Montecito
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fter Andy Warhol published Firooz Zahedi’s photographs in Interview magazine in the 1970s, Zahedi went on to become one of the top photographers in Hollywood—he was famously Elizabeth Taylor’s personal photographer (they met because she and Zahedi’s cousin were having an affair). For his latest project, he focused his lens on a much
different subject matter. In Montecito Style: Paradise on California’s Gold Coast (Monacelli, $60) Zahedi and writer Lorie Dewhirst Porter, both longtime residents of the area, offer an inside look at 20 distinctive homes. There are Spanish-style manses, including the first home that famed architect George Washington Smith designed in his storied career, along with architect William Hefner’s weekend getaway, interior designer John Saladino’s classicist abode and a brutalist
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