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A young family’s harmonious living space The “pink moment” is shorthand for the sublime view of Ojai’s Topatopa Mountains at sunset. It’s also the name of a group of creative Ojai locals who gather monthly in a salonlike setting to share their ongoing projects. DMITRI SIEGEL and WOODWYN KOONS are Pink Moment regulars, and it’s perhaps no coincidence the front door of their 1960s-era ranch home near downtown Ojai is painted a vivid shade of fuchsia. Color is an important feature of the couple’s home, which they renovated with the help of Los Angeles architect Barbara Bestor, whose design style is “modern but very livable and fun, not pretentious or cold,” according to Siegel, who serves as VP of global brand and executive creative director of Sonos. The pink door keeps company with sunny yellow Muuto pendant lights in the kitchen and a rich, navy blue wall behind the communal art table. “I feel there’s something inventive, open, and fun about how much color there is,” says Koons, a former actor with a PhD in psychology. To create a happy vision of California living for the couple and their two young children—who moved from Philadelphia to Ojai five years ago— Bestor opened up the floor plan. She moved the kitchen to the center of the house while using glass walls and mirrors to bring the outdoors in. As a result, Siegel says the family “experiences each other because we’re always in the same space.” Music is also central to the home’s design, and this aspect was helmed by Siegel, who recently oversaw the creation of Sonos’ New York showroom, which is set up as a series of listening rooms. “We look at it as adding music as a design element in your home,” he says, “not just speakers.” According to a Sonos study, “listening to music out loud promotes conversation, inspiration, lovemaking, all those good parts of life,” says Siegel. Sounds good to us. L . D . P O R T E R
What’s Now
Clockwise from top left: The FRONT
DOOR painted in
Benjamin Moore Gypsy Pink; a MIRRORED BACKSPLASH
reflects the outdoors; the black lacquer barn door plays contrast to a white NORMANN COPENHAGEN
bell lamp; in the bathroom, yellow cement tiles and a the backyard.
PHOTOGRAPHS: LAURE JOLIET
Dutch door lead to