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House & Garden 
The home of William G. Mather, 
at San Rafael Heights, Pasadena, 
is an impressive example of the 
brilliant work being done by Cali¬ 
fornia architects in developing 
unusual sites into homes and 
gardens of rare beauty. The 
house crowns a high hill, its ter¬ 
race commanding a view of the 
gardens built on the steep hill¬ 
side below and the Sierra Madre 
mountains beyond 
The climate of California makes constant out¬ 
door living a delight fid possibility, and Gali- 
fornia architects have developed the porch and 
terrace to a high degree. Unfettered by tradi¬ 
tion and not afraid of color, they mingle 
wrought iron and tile and wood and stucco, 
swing richly colored awnings out on medieval 
iron standards, and use for furniture pieces that 
are frankly of bamboo from the Far East 
One of the paths along the top of the hill leads 
to the east front of the house. It is flanked on 
one hand by a pergola of concrete pillars and 
rustic roof, and on the other by a high planting 
set in a bank held up by the concrete wall. 
From this point the land drops away. There is 
an iron rail, a slope of garden, filled with lux¬ 
urious growth, then the long flight of steps 
shown on the opposite page 
