"We went for an old-fashioned Beverly Hills feeling," Peter Dunham says of the house he designed for Mark and Julie Rowen, “like the kind of house Jimmy Stewart might have lived in.” Although Dunham, who is adept at creating his own classic Los Angeles moments (as evidenced by his newly opened shop, Hollywood at Home), had a vision for what the house could be, the structure itself had a long way to go. When the Rowens purchased the 1950s ranch-style building, it was “one of the more distressed properties we’d taken on,” says architect and frequent Dunham collaborator Tim Barber. But the couple—who work together at Blue Collar Productions, a motion picture and video production company that Mark Rowen founded and runs—identified with the traditional architecture and saw its possibilities. “Peter and I have the same philosophy about ranch houses,” says Barber. “When they don’t have a strong midcentury aesthetic, we let them be all about beams and paneling and built-ins, and we try to keep the color palette fairly light.” However, a Dunham interior wouldn’t be complete without his signature layers of color and pattern. “You want things to pop once in a while,” he explains. “If it’s all the same note, you don’t really notice everything.” click here to read the rest of the story |
