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BY ANY DISCERNIBLE measure the newly opened West Hollywood outpost of Soho House marks one of the more glamorous launches in recent Los Angeles history. The private club sits high [...]

On a crisp, starry night last April, guests at the Venice, California, home of architect Steven Ehrlich and his wife, Nancy Griffin, a journalist, savored the last of their wine […]

The architectural features of a hill side model residence in Wyoming are discused.

The details of designing of a villa for a couple in Los Angeles, which was built with inspiration from the sunshine of California, are discussed.

Designers Roger Thomas and Janellen Radoff, of Wynn Design & Development, arranged the six villas at Wynn Las Vegas and DeRuyter O. Butler and Glen Ashworth, of Butler/Ashworth Architects, created the entire hotel casino. A pool, garden and spa are adjacent to the glass-enclosed living area of a smaller villa and high walls and lush foliage add to each suite's sense of privacy and serenity.

Oscar-winning actress, of 'Rebecca' and 'Suspicion' fame, Joan Fontaine shared a delightful, sprawling, single-roofed redwood-and-shingle structure with her second husband William Dozier on Fordyce Road clinging to a hillside in Brentwood. The couple favored a casual, informal lifestyle and Fontaine filled the house with cozy upholstered sofas and wing chairs, English antiques, oil paintings and books.

Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange shares her Stillwater, Minnesota, house, with her husband, actor and writer Sam Shepard, and her children. The two-acre property includes the main English cottage-style garden, and fanning out, themed gardens for each of their children, a Buddha garden and several ones with water features.

Barbara and Paul Saltman who acquired an ocean facing ranch house in California, wanted the house to have a bold, mysterious feel and a poetic look. San Diego based architectural designer Wallace E. Cunningham gave it an open and transparent look, extensive use of glass, assortment of furniture and art, pottery, sculpture, an exact portrait of the owners.

The architectural and designer work for a Los Angeles residence Sam Nazarian by Jennifer Post, who believes in freedom of face, and neutral colors, is reviewed. She remodeled the house by facing everything towards the mountain so as to give an incredible feeling of forwardness and for the client, this calculus of logic and luxury amounted to optimal living.

A client bought a hillside villa built by architect Harold Levitt in the early 1990s that was airy, streamlined environments that took full advantage of Southern California's benign climate and natural beauty. Interior Designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard and his partner Trip Haenisch of Martynus-Tripp gave the villa a European flavor, mix of sophisticated art and antiques and 19th century drapes.

Architects Richard Giegengack and D.C. Broadstone II added two wings to a Georgian-style house in Dallas in order to accommodate large family rooms as well as a first-class library. The 6,000-square-foot, double-height library is grand in scale, fitting for the owners' museum-quality collection of documents, arts and antiques and architects and designer John Phifer Marrs conceived it with a coffered ceiling and inlaid-wood floors.

Charles Pollock has spent the last 38 years, since 1967, renovating his 1920s Los Angeles residence and has earned renown as a local decorator, antiques dealer and furniture designer. In order to get the proportions right as well as an overall picture that is pleasing, Pollock has managed to make major renovations including moving the entrance, enclosing the balcony, redoing the kitchen, shrinking the dining room and opening up the house with French doors and windows.

Architect John King and interior designer Norma King replaced their own residence in Ajijic, Mexico with their own design and give it a Moorish look. John King had a set of plans for a main house considering the width of the narrow but deep lot, with a pool-cooled courtyard behind it and guest casita behind the courtyard.

Baron Eric de Rothschild, who oversees the Domaines Barons de Rothschild (DBR), purchased an estate in Peralillo, Chile, called Vina Los Vascos in 1988. The estate included an almost 550-acre vineyard, with additional 840 acres of vine plantation where finer methods of growing and winemaking were introduced to produce a cabernet sauvignon acceptable to the American and European palette.

Architect Nick Fullerton and designer Linda Bedell redid the 1929 lodge on Montana's Lindbergh Lake. Bedell complemented the daybed, original to the lodge with hickory furniture while Nick did the repairing of the split roof, reinforced walls and restored walls and the log exterior.

Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock, who has a reputation as an American Southwest architect despite his many large-scale projects around the world, is known to design buildings that convey a sense of the primordial. 'The House of Shadows' as Predock named it, is low-lying and earth-toned and recognizes both the horizontality of the surrounding mesas and the local architectural vernacular.

Architect Marc Appleton designed the Shakespeare Ranch, a vacation house, located on Lake Tahoe's Nevada shore. Appleton designed a gabled, two-story family residence whose stepped length touches the shore and is a New England styled resort.

Burton E. Green built his own estate in 1913, staking out a six-acre knoll above the site of Beverly Hills Hotel and spent a few years constructing a Tudor-style mansion. The house has changed owners a number of times that have designed it according to their taste and style and is currently owned by Geoff Palmer and his wife Anne who are offsetting the lower room heights with classical columns and tray, coffered ceilings, elevating all three floors of the house with opulent detail.

The Makanyane Safari Lodge is set amongst privately owned 4,500 acres of lush forest inside Madikwe, a 185,000-acre game reserve in South Africa. Created by architect Bruce Stafford and designers Jenny Seddon and Tessa Proudfoot, the Lodge uses natural elements, yet offering its guests lavish comfort.

Designer Charles Allem, who oversaw a team of architects, renovated the 1961 residence for Reagan Silbe. The best feature of the house is its setting-a Los Angeles hilltop with city-to-ocean views.

Singer and performer Linda Ronstandt's home in Tucson, Arizona, expresses her love for family tradition. Interior designer Christy Martin of Studio Encanto has redesigned her pink stucco Mediterranean-style house built by Roy Place in 1928.

Architect Steven Ehrlich's home in Venice, California depicts his self and his likes of community style of architecting with the exterior and the environment also worked upon. His interest in community type of projects has given him opportunity to design public places from libraries to recreation center.

Nick and Betty Coates an Aspen, Colorado based real estate developer and a former interior designer fell in love with the colonial San Miguel, as it had the old colonial feel still luxurious with the upcoming hotels. They bought a house there and hired designer Peter Brown to do the interiors, which is described in detail.

Its very name remains, in the imagination of people all over the world, a kind of shorthand for the easy life. I had not before 1971 and will probably not […]

The terms of the building skills and the square corners, which were pretty dramatic, a shroud of mystery clings to the numerous prehistoric structures in Mesa Verde National Park. A new Cultural Center designed to reflect the legacy and honor the site of the country's first architecture is in motion and is proposed to be set up by the year 2006, the parks centennial.

Actress Zooey Deschannel's trip to her favorite furniture shops at the Los Angeles Beverly Boulevard is described. The shops specializes in mid-century designs.

The houses that are located in the woodsy canyon on the west side of Los Angeles are described. The colorful log cabins and sleek modernist boxes are designed against a natural background of groves of eucalyptus, sycamore and redwood, making it a local treasure.

The article covers the color palettes used in redecorating the interiors of several homes. Colors include rich golds, bronzes, and yellows.

A 1934 log cabin, home of actor Peter Fonda, in Paradise Valley, Montana is described. Along with the original homestead house, a barn and some outbuildings, it sat on a section of land overlooking the majestic Absaroka and Gallatin mountains.

David Wilson and Douglas Higgins are production designers for Smallville, a television program about the life of Superman, Clark Kent, as a young man. The Kent barn is designed to look like a Norman Rockwell painting, while the stone Royal Roads University in Victoria BC stands in for the more sinister abode of Lex Luthor.

Photographs accompany an article on an oceanfront home in California. Discussion centers on construction materials, use of windows that emphasize exterior views, and minimalist design.