CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: DeZonia pours bubbly in the gazebo; the laundry room boasts colorful storage by Ojai artist Beatrice Wood and flower arrangements by Amalgam Flora; a rare collection of framed herbarium specimens is fronted by Venetian glass candelabras; Crawford in the kitchen with Anna Oster of Amalgam Flora; DeZonia’s home office is located just outside the wine room; chaise lounges from the Beverly Hills Hotel; inside the front door, a Beatrice Wood chest hosts two bronze lamps by Sally Albemarle below a painting by Matthew Brown; Crawford and Hugo by the pool (caftan by Rick Owens); a whimsical chandelier by Paavo Tynell; the wellstocked butler’s pantry.
graceful chandelier, an intricately detailed counterpoint to the sleek Hans Wegner wooden dining table and George Nakashima’s minimalist wooden chairs. Crawford’s innate talent for sourcing and collecting is evident throughout. For the living room, Crawford found two identical vintage T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings sofas and had them re-covered in a brilliant green wide-wale corduroy from Dries Van Noten. The creamy paneled walls of the breakfast room are overlaid with Italian trompe l’oeil ceramic plates of all sizes and colors that she has collected over 30 years. “I had never assembled them together on one wall,” Crawford says. “We were kind of flabbergasted at how many we had.” In the adjacent kitchen, the Lacanche Citeaux range is surrounded by antique blue-and-white Delft tiles mixed with custom tiles depicting the family dogs (Archie, Bailey, Lady, Hugo, and Primack’s dog Chapo) by ceramicist Aviva Halter. “We laid out the tiles on the floor and chose the patterns and order before installing them,” Crawford says. In the end, Crawford and DeZonia’s Ojai home is a visual portrait, a fascinating reflection of the couple’s shared existence. “One of our goals in all the homes we’ve lived in together is that nothing is too precious,” Crawford says. “We want our lives to be totally at ease, and we want it to project that. So we’ve tried to make that our motto. We’re just really lucky.” •
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