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Project • By Studio William Hefner • Private Houses
Rustic Canyon Residence
This home, for a dynamic young family, came to us by way of the Bristol Circle residence. They admired the detail and solidity of that house and its classical form. After a long design process, the home that emerged was one with a more contemporary feeling structure, albeit strong neoclassical roots.
The husband, an attorney, may have preferred a career as an architect, in my opinion, although I doubt he would ever admit that. He was sketching all through the process and definitely played a significant role throughout the development. In addition to his input, the wife is to be credited with the interior design work, especially an exhaustive two-year search for amazing antique brass light fixtures, and has a wonderful eye for interior ma... More
Project • By Studio William Hefner • Private Houses
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