When the Greystone design showcase opens today, visitors will see something quite novel: a show house that actually feels like a house, not a collection of over-the-top visual stunts.
Veranda magazine editor-at-large Carolyn Englefield lined up 28 interior and landscape designers from Southern California and beyond -- a list that includes Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, Suzanne Rheinstein, Windsor Smith, Rose Tarlow and David Phoenix. Englefield's directive: "Create the feel of a Great Gatsby-style home taken into the 21st century." Her second request, perhaps even harder to fulfill: "Make it feel like a real home."
