16 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS: 
A’ lamp of bronze and. of plaster 
A lamp and an electrolier 
January, 
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A statue 
The Home of An American Sculptor in California 
By Burr Bartram 
PON reaching the Pacific Ocean by a com- 
paratively new road from Los Angeles to 
Santa Monica, one comes upon the studio 
of Felix Peano, an American sculptor. It 
is a striking structure, built on a beautiful 
ridge known as the Palisades, and is one 
of the most unique of California’s beauti- 
It is finely situated; not so near the edge of the 
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ful homes. 
bluff as to expose the outbuildings in the green valley on the 
one side, nor so close to its brink as to catch a view of the 
The building is 
kept close to the earth, and seems to be exactly adapted to 
the equable climatic conditions of southern California. The 
railroad which extends along the shore. 
house is an expression of harmony, the result of the design- 
ers’ conception and execution of an ideal home. 
The building is one story in height with the exception of 
a second story over the central section of the building; a 
construction which gives height to the dome of the reception 
hall. The roof is extended over the main part of the build- 
ing, and is devoted to the uses of a garden. The entrance 
to the house is reached from a sloping porch built at the 
north front of the building. A medallion is placed in the 
center of the terrace wall which encloses the ascending walk 
and forms the outer balustrade immediately in front of the 
entrance door. At one end of the porch is a bronze foot 
scraper, in the form of a maddened cat with arched back, 
A house of striking design built of concrete 
