Met Home of the Month: September
Architect Scott Joyce and a pair of talented designers transformed this cliff-hugging Los Angeles cottage into a modernist retreat for newlyweds who love to entertain
When architect Scott Joyce first visited this house on a steeply angled lot in the Hollywood Hills, it had almost no functional outdoor space. In front, there was a small courtyard, entered through wrought-iron gates that offered little privacy. In back, the living room opened directly onto a swimming pool; behind the pool, the ground dropped off precipitously.
Joyce was hired by new owners -- a couple in their twenties -- to turn it into a venue for entertaining, which, in southern California, means entertaining outdoors. First Joyce replaced the gates with solid metal-and-wood front doors to make the small courtyard part of the couple's private domain. (Gurgling water now runs down a bronze sculpture into a koi pond, its sound helping to erase evidence of the outside world.)
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