An Aging Modernist Gem by Calvin Straub Gets a Creative Revival

Introducing a series of structures, two architects weave a Japanese-inspired midcentury by the “father of California post-and-beam architecture” into its wooded hillside lot.
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This story was originally published in Dwell’s September 2016 issue.

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Sarah Amelar
While reporting on Hadley and Peter Arnold's Canyon House, writer and architect Sarah Amelar got to rub shoulders–or rather wings and fins–with the family's menagerie: three dogs, a cat, two rabbits, two birds and a fish.

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