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"Anjelica Huston and Robert Graham\nThe Artist Sculpts a Venice House for His Actress Wife\nAnjelica Huston in the living room.\n\n\"He gave me a very beautiful shell in which to place my oyster,\" says Anjelica Huston of her husband, sculptor Robert Graham, who designed their Venice, California, house.\nHuston and Graham's living room.\n\nA Mexican carved icon stands on a plateau of the living room wall; a pair of giltwood lamps carved as archangels flank the fireplace. \"Light is essential to the design,\" Graham says. \"The unpainted plaster actively picks it up, absorbs it and throws it back.\"\nHuston and Graham's living room.\n\n\"Bob is training me in restraint,\" says Huston, \"but not in austerity or minimalism.\" In the living room, needlework pillows by Huston's mother are scattered on the sofas. The harlequin tapestry is 19th-century French.\nHuston and Graham's dining room.\n\nThe Ming-style table and chairs, from the estate of Empress Su Lin, were discovered by Huston in Los Angeles's Chinatown. On the tansu chest are a circa 300 A.D. Gandhara head and a silver tray given to John Huston by the cast and crew of The Asphalt Jungle (1950). Above is a David Novros oil-on-canvas triptych, 1971.\nHuston and Graham's game room.\n\n\"My collections started pre-birth,\" Huston says. The basement game room\u2014its walls a counterpoint to the white stucco\u2014is lined with artworks (by Jasper Johns, John Huston and others) and photographs (including ones by Helmut Newton and Diane Arbus). \"My objects follow me wherever I go. They remind me of who I am and where I came from.\"\nHuston and Graham's lap pool.\n\n\"With the courtyard and terraces, the house offers me a full interior and exterior life,\" Huston remarks. \"I'm a Cancer. I have both of what I need here, which is comfort and places to escape to in the house and\u2014so important\u2014the sense of never feeling hemmed in.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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