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"A Moderne Masterpiece Revived\nProducer Joe Roth Refreshes Cedric Gibbons's L.A. Home\nMichael Smith set out to return the Los Angeles house of director and producer Joe Roth and his wife, Irene, \"to its most glamorous era,\" he says. Begun in 1929, it was designed by legendary art director Cedric Gibbons and architect Douglas Honnold for Gibbons and his wife, movie star Dolores Del Rio.\n\nFor the rear fa\u00E7ade, Gibbons and Honnold were influenced by the International Style.\nA stepped door surround at the front entrance.\nA painting by James Brooks hangs above the fireplace in the small first-floor living room. Next to it is the 1986 work Untitled (Mouji) by Andy Warhol of a French bulldog.\nRoth, who counts among his credits as a producer the films While You Were Sleeping and Mona Lisa Smile, has two French bulldogs of his own\u2014Charlotte and George.\nWhen Roth found the house, it was in good condition but still \"in need of a restoration,\" recalls Smith. He retained the banquettes and built-in cabinetry in the second-floor living room, and throughout, to preserve the D\u00E9co spirit and chose furnishings from the period, including a Donald Deskey table. Joining it are a pair of chairs, one an original Paul Frankl design and the other made for the project.\nIn the second-floor living room, \"we created a variety of textures and subtle colors to make a very large space feel glamorous and warm,\" Smith explains. To enhance its intimacy, the designer divided the room into separate areas for dining and television watching. He commissioned two Nancy Lorenz screens to flank the fireplace.\nGeorge sits in the kitchen. The previous owners installed new cabinets and stainless-steel and marble countertops, but it's Smith's additions of a D\u00E9co wall clock and D\u00E9co-inspired barstools that \"make the room feel very cohesive\" with the rest of the house, he notes.\nPhotographs by Andr\u00E9 Kert\u00E9sz, left, and Horst are in the study, along with a Jacques Adnet table.\nGibbons and Honnold incorporated lighting into the dining room's stepped ceiling. Smith anchored the room with an English D\u00E9co carpet from Keshishian.\nEnoc Perez's 2005 oil Normandie hangs in the master bedroom, near a 1930 Adnet torch\u00E8re. Silk wallcovering from Donghia.\nFrom a second-floor balcony, the poolhouse, with detailing similar to that of the main house and containing the gym and spa, can be seen.\nThe Los Angeles-based firm Inner Gardens was responsible for the renovation of the house's landscaping."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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