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"Candice Bergen\nCalifornia Comforts for the Actress's Spanish-Style Residence in Los Angeles Candice\nCandice Bergen in her living room.\n\n\"I love Spanish houses\u2014they're the only houses that make sense in Los Angeles,\" said Candice Bergen. The actress, working with architect William Murray and designer Linda Marder, renovated a hacienda-style residence in west Los Angeles that she'd admired as a child.\nThe entrance of Bergen's house.\n\nDuring the renovation, \"I was thinking family, I was thinking new start,\" Bergen said. The low profile of the exterior, with column from Art\u00E9; de Mexico, disguises the interior volume.\nBergen's living room.\n\n\"What's important to me in a house is that there's a tremendous sense of comfort,\" explains Bergen. \"Every chair you sit in is comfortable. If you can't sit back, you're just in transit. If you're perched on a chair, you're perched to leave. Every table should be the type of table you can put your feet up on. Life is too short not to be comfortable.\"\nBergen's dining room.\n\nArchitect William Murray installed bookshelves and paneling in the dining room, furnished with Queen Anne-style chairs and a peg-top cherry table from Los Angeles furniture maker Elijah Slocum.\nDraperies section off Bergen's sleeping and sitting areas.\n\n\"I love lamps,\" Bergen says. \"Don't even talk to me about track lighting. I love lamps for the warmth they give a room, for the way the light comes through the shade.\"\nThe rear terrace of Bergen's home.\n\n\"The rear terrace is one of the most important features of the house,\" architect William Murray points out. \"Each interior space opens onto it, and it acts as a living area and a circulation path to the rooms.\" A small fountain is adjacent to stairs leading to the lawn."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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