25/09/2021
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Biệt thự trên đồi - Hilltop Los Angeles với phong cách Moroccan
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Thiết kế bởi: Studio KO - Richard Christiansen
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Seventy-five brick stairs, gliding down the hill from Flamingo Estate, descend to the terraced gardens. “The house is this big pink thing, and I thought, What’s pink and proud? It’s standing up there like a flamingo,” says the homeowner, Chandelier Creative founder Richard Christiansen.
The concrete entryway was a cinema with stadium seating when the house was an adult-film studio, and, inspired by a photo of a concrete tower in Morocco, Studio KO cofounder Karl Fournier suggested creating a floating concrete staircase leading into the colorful world upstairs for a grotto effect. “He said, ‘This place is like heaven surrounded by a garden,’” says Christiansen, and they riffed off that.
Decades ago, a radio station operated in the TV room, which is now a tribute to the previous owner’s red silk bathrobe and leopard-print G-string. “We went to the gift shop of Jardin Majorelle in Morocco and bought suitcases of the blue paint they sell,” says Christiansen. A Jane Fonda print on the wall, bought at auction, is there because both Christiansen and Studio KO are obsessed with the iconic actress.
The former “main performance room,” laughs Christiansen, is now the bedroom he shares with his partner. Studio KO built the bed, surrounded by 13 original David Hockney drawings of L.A. boys from the ‘80s when the artist moved to the city. “So appropriate for the house!” says Christiansen. The lion was found at auction, originally meant for the garden, and sits with a sculptural Parisian chair.
“Karl and Olivier obsessed over finding the perfect purple marble,” says Christiansen of his countertop and shower in the master bathroom, which opens to the outside and lets in plenty of natural light.
A floral sofa by Belgian designer Jean-Philippe Demeyer sits in the living room with leather Brazilian chairs, a Gabriella Crespi coffee table, and a carved wooden elephant chair from Ibiza. “It was just sitting there in a hotel restaurant and we were like, ‘Can we buy it?’” says Christiansen, looking back. David Hockney’s Caribbean Tea Time screen—like complementary Ken Done works in other spaces—adds even more vibrancy to the cheerful, tropical space with an original fireplace at the center.
A wooden frieze wrapping the living room was commissioned in Morocco especially for Christiansen, who has a video of an old man outside Marrakech, Morocco, hand-carving the piece while looking at his dogs’ Instagram to get their likeness (alongside his bees and garden). The striped wall panels were inspired by Yves Saint Laurent’s Villa Oasis in Marrakech.
When Christiansen bought the home, what’s now the retro-leaning kitchen was a room for filming and even had a swing in it. Its chunky new terrazzo floor was inspired by a hotel in Rome he had taken a photo of years ago. Studio KO found an old Italian man in the San Fernando Valley who was able to exactly replicate it.
The exterior of Christiansen’s office building—housing his antique papier-mâché desk from JP Demeyer—is clad in green tiles from Morocco. “When the sun hits it, you could fry an egg it’s so hot," he says. "But it also has this beautiful glow at sunset, these tiles reflect the light so beautifully.”
Christiansen’s office is one of the new structures on the property conceived and built by Studio KO, and holds a coffee table made from a piece of a tree struck by lightning on the grounds of Versailles. The sofa is the first thing he bought with Studio KO, at Wright auction house in Chicago.
“The best room of the house is the garden,” says Christiansen, who spent years before tackling his home on plant-buying trips and with his hands in the dirt creating a Mediterranean garden bursting with rosemary, lavender, agave, and even Moreton Bay figs, a native Australian tree cultivated by Jo O’Connell, whose nursery in Ventura, California, he calls the best in the country
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