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"Step Inside Diane Keaton&amp;#39;s 1920s Beverly Hills Residence \nThe actress and longtime friend and designer Stephen Shadley reemphasized the facade\u2019s Spanish colonial style, giving it a simple\u2014albeit monumental\u2014wood door and metal grillwork at the windows\n\u201CDiane loves big spaces,\u201D says New York designer Stephen Shadley, a close friend who has worked with her on several renovations.\nActress, director and producer Diane Keaton stands at the front entrance of her Beverly Hills residence, an early-1920s structure by architect Ralph Flewelling.\nA previous renovation created a double-height entrance hall. Keaton suggested turning the unwieldy space into a library. \u201CIt\u2019s still large but more in scale with the rest of the house,\u201D notes Shadley.\nBooks devoted to Keaton\u2019s favorite subjects predominate: \u201CI love photography, and I love architecture,\u201D she says. \u201CThose are the core elements of my library.\u201D\nKeaton is an enthusiastic, knowledgeable collector of California art and design. A 1931 Maynard Dixon oil, Late Afternoon, hangs above the living room\u2019s fireplace; William Ritschel\u2019s 1912 Desert Wanderers is at rear. The pots are Hillside, from the teens and \u201920s; the daybeds are Monterey pieces. Of the latter, Shadley observes, \u201CDiane has the best collection anywhere.\u201D\n\u201CStephen is a fantastic collaborator,\u201D says the actress, \u201Cand he has a million ideas. Always. He makes people feel good about what they\u2019re doing to their homes.\u201D Storm Mesas, a recent painting by Ed Mell, is in the dining room.\nShadley came up with the idea of the kitchen\u2019s inverted-lampshade fixture on his first project with Keaton. \u201CIt works well, directing light down and also giving off great indirect light,\u201D he says. Viking range and hood, at Abt.com.\nVintage pottery fills shelves in the family room, part of the kitchen.\n\u201CI\u2019m eternally seeking out the adventure of discovering the magic of homes in California,\u201D Keaton remarks. Original tiles pave the loggia. \u201CI love contrast,\u201D she says. \u201CI don\u2019t want to be enclosed in darkness, nor do I want to be overwhelmed by too much light.\u201D\nLanterns once used on the house\u2019s exterior now illuminate the master bedroom.\nAn oil, Moonlight Mesa, from 1925, by Harold \u201CBuck\u201D Weaver is over the fireplace, which has the same form as the one in the living room. It was inspired by an example Keaton found in a book.\n\u201CI felt that there was a Modernist aspect to this home,\u201D says Keaton.\nMonterey furniture served as her inspiration for the table she designed for the office\u2014once an open-air loggia. \u201CWe added doors to the arches and turned it into a year-round room,\u201D says Shadley. The painting across the courtyard is a Mell oil."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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