Sweet Digs: Spain on The Strand - A Renovation Honors the Home's Heritage

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new yor traplat kevi shield ew it would be a hallege to ovie hi souther califoria-

born ancée to abandon Bel Air for Manhattan Beach. But he never imagined that getting her to move would

require purchasing a 1930s Spanish Colonial Revival home on The Strand, a mere block from the 1921 Art

Deco house he had meticulously restored earlier.

“Over the 15 years I lived in the Art Deco home, I’d walk past the Strand house so many times,” Shields

recalls. “I would always ask the owner, ‘Mr. Foley, when are you going to sell me your house?’ When he and

his wife decided to move to Palm Springs ve years ago, I bought the house. It was only then that my wife

agreed to marry me and move down to the beach.”

Bucking the trend of razing old homes and replacing them with monolithic mansions, Shields and his wife

decided to renovate the house, staying faithful to its original Spanish Revival design. The vision: A Spanish-

Moroccan-style residence with modern ourishes.





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ARcHItEctURE IN cALIFORNIA

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movement, noted merian arhitet Bertram goodhe

introded Sothern caliornians to the stle at the 1915

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Balboa ark in San ieo. o honor caliornia’s ispani

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Sothern caliornia ities sh as Santa Barbara and a Jolla

in the earl 1920s. rhitet geore Washinton Smith took

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caliornia’s elite in the 1920s and 1930s. Several o his reations

still stand in onteito, Santa Barbara and asadena; some

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in the reion o ndalsia, the stle onormed avorabl

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call (805) 565-5653.

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456-8432. – .c..

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form and spanish revival elemenTs.

buTcher-block counTerTops and red cabineTry

add color and inTeresT To The kiTchen while

providing ample counTer and sTorage space.

goThic Touches such as The sTylized columns

of The fireplace were common in 1930s

revival archiTecTure. The sTone manTelpiece

and wroughT-iron arTwork make an eleganT

sTaTemenT in The second-floor living area.

The barrel ceiling adds a spanish colonial

revival Touch To The TemperaTure

conTrolled walk-Through wine cellar.

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