Calm over the big city: Rosetta Getty in front of her pink hacienda
Source: Photo: Kate Martin
Pool, bungalow, high
Palms, that was the California of celebrity photographer Slim Aarons and his
good-life
style in the 50s.
Rosetta Getty, a Los Angeles-born fashion designer, lives differently.
Hidden in a lush green cactus garden, a salmon-colored villa rises into the blue sky.
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The rosé paint on the outside and the blue painted window frames are reminiscent of Morocco, of Yves Saint Laurent's famous “Majorelle Garden” in Marrakech, where the legendary Getty clan, her husband's family, celebrated exuberantly in the 1970s.
With its mix of styles - a bit of desert, African wanderlust, a bit of hacienda, Spanish colonial style paired with the fantasy as it was lived by Hollywood stars in the 1920s, this dreamy half chateau, half tropic - the house has an effect mysterious and unusual.
As if its inhabitants longed for an old world.
Rosetta Getty can only see downtown, the new world, from afar.
High rooms and wood paneling in the colonial style
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Quiet was important to her, privacy was the top priority when she moved in.
Not surprising considering its famous name.
“I wanted something unique,” says the fashion designer.
"When we found this bright pink hacienda in the Spanish style of the 1920s, with huge gardens and incredible views of the hills, it fulfilled everything."
There was also a recording studio in the house, and Rosetta's husband Balthazar Getty is an actor and musician.
And: enough space for the couple's extensive contemporary art collection, parents of four children - Cassius, Grace, Violet and June.
A family that rarely shows itself to the public.
She made an exception for the illustrated book of a friend, the London creative director Alex Eagle.
A ballroom for art: a sprawling sculpture by Hayden Dunham hangs on chains from the ceiling, the column made of Himalayan salt cubes is by Olympia Scarry
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It's about space in your home.
The height and size give the rooms grandeur, the sparse furnishings underline the palatial quality.
Due to the wonderful, dark wooden floor, ceiling and staircase decorations and the amount of light that falls through the large, curtain-free windows, the ambience does not appear minimalistly cool, but warm, romantic.
The library with vintage carpets and a daybed by Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé
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A refuge, and yet: such a bass sound city is always in the background when you look at the pictures.
You think you can hear the typical hum of air conditioning and traffic from afar.
In one room there is nothing but a day bed, in another a table by Michael Wilson, reminiscent of the "Maman", the spider by the artist Louise Bourgeois.
Art and design are celebrated, but also used like Isamu Noguchi's reading lamp in the library.
Rosetta Getty was drawn to design early on.
At 14 she became a model and stood in front of the camera of legends like Bruce Weber and Paul Jasmin.
She broke off her fashion studies at Otis-Parsons, designed children's fashion, then cocktail dresses, which quickly became a cult, today her label is called 'Rosetta Getty'.
"No matter how busy everyone is," explains the entrepreneur, "I try that we all have dinner together every evening."
View of Downtown LA
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At the weekend, friends and family come together for “Soul Food Sundays” - brunch under palm trees.
“I really love plants!
There are even live grapevines in our dining room that grow along the ceiling and walls.
The diversity of this house is like that of this city.
It shows a feeling for the past and the present at the same time. "
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"More Than Just a House: At Home with Collectors and Creators" by Alex Eagle, Tish Wrigley, Kate Martin, is published by Rizzoli Verlag.
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