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Music education in the area benefits from the 44th annual house and garden tour.
By Joyce Rudolph
Two Burbank interior design teams are placing their own stamp of creativity on spaces inside the 44th annual Pasadena Showcase House of Design.
Each year the showcase committee selects about a dozen professional interior designers and a dozen landscape artists to renovate a house and gardens of a selected home, assigning each team to a specific room or area of the house and grounds.
Once the work is completed, the public is charged a fee to tour the house and gardens, and proceeds are donated to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and music education programs in the area.
The fundraiser typically brings in close to $1 million annually, said Marti Farley, vice president of finance for the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts.
MV Design and Construction Group is decorating the master bedroom suite, including the bathroom and dressing area, while SuziScot Design is assigned to the back hall and bath area. The house and garden tour opens Sunday and continues until May 18.
The house, which is in La Cañada Flintridge, was built in 1922 and designed by Henry Harwood Hewitt. The original owner commissioned Hewitt to replicate a Spanish castle with an emphasis on Moorish style.
Both local design teams have kept this in mind in their spaces, said benefit chairwoman Delise Menik, of La Cañada Flintridge. “Both these areas are taking their inspiration for their design spaces from Moorish and Spanish influences,” she said. “Their details are just terrific.”
Marcus Juniel, who runs MV Design with his wife, Maria Videla Juniel, said they have tried to create an elegant but modern space for the master suite.
“We’ve used warm, neutral tones as the base in the walls and fabrics and contrasted that with cool blues and golds in the throw pillows on the bed and the area rug,” he said. “The blues cool it down.”
In creating the new space, a door attaching the master bedroom and a women’s bathroom was removed and a new hallway was made with access to the closet and dressing area and a man’s bathroom. Another door allows access to the closet from the women’s bathroom.
Throughout the bedroom, the designers have kept the Spanish Revival style in mind but have added accents of Chinoiserie, a combination of French and Chinese influences, Juniel said. They created a custom-made TV armoire with inlaid wood on the doors that has a Moorish style pattern. The cabinet design is carried out in the linen closet in the hallway and the cabinets in the women’s bathroom.
“It’s an eclectic mix, but it shows the Spanish Revival that was going on in America during the 1920s,” he said. “We wanted there to be a rhyme and reason to what we did here.”
Moorish style is also carried out in the back hallway space, said designer Scot Barr of SuziScot Designs.
The arched entryway has been hand-painted with the same designs found on the walls of the Moorish palace, the Alhambra, Barr said. Four windows have been hand-painted on the wall incorporating topiaries of citrus and pomegranate plants and a niche displaying a peacock.
Two niches have been cut into the plaster, one on the same wall as the windows and another on an adjacent wall, Barr said.
“We’ve added niches by cutting into the 1 1/2 -inch plaster walls,” he said. “We added two coasts of plaster to the walls and added a transparent wash on top that gives it a multi-toned look.”
The walls in the bathroom are upholstered with the company’s new line of SuziScot original textiles printed on organic cotton, hemp and silk and carry out the patterns of peacocks, and citrus and pomegranate.
While design teams from Glendale have participated in the past, none is taking part this year. Some of the music programs benefiting are in Glendale, however.
“One of our music programs, the Music Mobile, visits Glendale schools and schools throughout the local area, and this music program is funded by proceeds from the Pasadena Showcase House of Design,” Menik said. “Another connection with the Glendale community has been a grant through our Gifts and Grants program which has supported performances at the Alex Theatre.”
The Glendale Committee for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a group of 20 active members and 15 patrons, brings the Music Mobile to all 27 public elementary schools in Glendale each January, said Trudy McGraw, a liaison between the two groups. “Our main thrust is to provide musical instrument education to all third-graders in the Glendale Unified School District,” she said.
Members bring about 75 musical instruments in a van and allow the third-graders to touch and play them, readying them for the opportunity to choose one particular instrument so they can be part of their school’s orchestra in fourth grade, she said.
The Glendale group’s members also are paid to staff the Pasadena Showcase House of Design as docents, and 85% of what they earn goes to the philharmonic while the balance goes to scholarships, ranging from purchasing musical instruments for less fortunate students or providing bus transportation for students to attend a concert at Disney Hall in downtown Los Angeles, she said.
Each year the showcase committee selects about a dozen professional interior designers and a dozen landscape artists to renovate a house and gardens of a selected home, assigning each team to a specific room or area of the house and grounds.
Once the work is completed, the public is charged a fee to tour the house and gardens, and proceeds are donated to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and music education programs in the area.
The fundraiser typically brings in close to $1 million annually, said Marti Farley, vice president of finance for the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts.
MV Design and Construction Group is decorating the master bedroom suite, including the bathroom and dressing area, while SuziScot Design is assigned to the back hall and bath area. The house and garden tour opens Sunday and continues until May 18.
The house, which is in La Cañada Flintridge, was built in 1922 and designed by Henry Harwood Hewitt. The original owner commissioned Hewitt to replicate a Spanish castle with an emphasis on Moorish style.
Both local design teams have kept this in mind in their spaces, said benefit chairwoman Delise Menik, of La Cañada Flintridge. “Both these areas are taking their inspiration for their design spaces from Moorish and Spanish influences,” she said. “Their details are just terrific.”
Marcus Juniel, who runs MV Design with his wife, Maria Videla Juniel, said they have tried to create an elegant but modern space for the master suite.
“We’ve used warm, neutral tones as the base in the walls and fabrics and contrasted that with cool blues and golds in the throw pillows on the bed and the area rug,” he said. “The blues cool it down.”
In creating the new space, a door attaching the master bedroom and a women’s bathroom was removed and a new hallway was made with access to the closet and dressing area and a man’s bathroom. Another door allows access to the closet from the women’s bathroom.
Throughout the bedroom, the designers have kept the Spanish Revival style in mind but have added accents of Chinoiserie, a combination of French and Chinese influences, Juniel said. They created a custom-made TV armoire with inlaid wood on the doors that has a Moorish style pattern. The cabinet design is carried out in the linen closet in the hallway and the cabinets in the women’s bathroom.
“It’s an eclectic mix, but it shows the Spanish Revival that was going on in America during the 1920s,” he said. “We wanted there to be a rhyme and reason to what we did here.”
Moorish style is also carried out in the back hallway space, said designer Scot Barr of SuziScot Designs.
The arched entryway has been hand-painted with the same designs found on the walls of the Moorish palace, the Alhambra, Barr said. Four windows have been hand-painted on the wall incorporating topiaries of citrus and pomegranate plants and a niche displaying a peacock.
Two niches have been cut into the plaster, one on the same wall as the windows and another on an adjacent wall, Barr said.
“We’ve added niches by cutting into the 1 1/2 -inch plaster walls,” he said. “We added two coasts of plaster to the walls and added a transparent wash on top that gives it a multi-toned look.”
The walls in the bathroom are upholstered with the company’s new line of SuziScot original textiles printed on organic cotton, hemp and silk and carry out the patterns of peacocks, and citrus and pomegranate.
While design teams from Glendale have participated in the past, none is taking part this year. Some of the music programs benefiting are in Glendale, however.
“One of our music programs, the Music Mobile, visits Glendale schools and schools throughout the local area, and this music program is funded by proceeds from the Pasadena Showcase House of Design,” Menik said. “Another connection with the Glendale community has been a grant through our Gifts and Grants program which has supported performances at the Alex Theatre.”
The Glendale Committee for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a group of 20 active members and 15 patrons, brings the Music Mobile to all 27 public elementary schools in Glendale each January, said Trudy McGraw, a liaison between the two groups. “Our main thrust is to provide musical instrument education to all third-graders in the Glendale Unified School District,” she said.
Members bring about 75 musical instruments in a van and allow the third-graders to touch and play them, readying them for the opportunity to choose one particular instrument so they can be part of their school’s orchestra in fourth grade, she said.
The Glendale group’s members also are paid to staff the Pasadena Showcase House of Design as docents, and 85% of what they earn goes to the philharmonic while the balance goes to scholarships, ranging from purchasing musical instruments for less fortunate students or providing bus transportation for students to attend a concert at Disney Hall in downtown Los Angeles, she said.
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