Bristol circle residence

In my initial conversation with the owners of this Brentwood Park residence, they asked for something French, which I presumed meant a southern California variant of the Petit Trianon; but much to my surprise, it turned out they were great aficionados of Art Deco, and French, to them, meant the racy yet simple lines and elegant proportions of late 19th-and early 20th- century Gallic architecture. Accordingly, I conceived of the house as the simple chateau one might have built just outside Paris, during the Belle Epoque, the renovated in the 1930's--an impression established, upon arrival, by an abundance of French windows, an informal gravel drive, and the kind of tank fountain, surrounded by lavender, that might have quenched the thirst of... More