This house is the perfect example of old meets new. The older home was transformed into sleek, contemporary lines and spaces. It was important that the home be easy to maintain and yet look amazing, that it function easily and effortlessly, and that everyone in the family would be comfortable.

This 6,500-square-foot Clancy Lane residence was conceived by designer Jeffrey Jones from the ground up. The structure’s contemporary lines converge to create a series of triangles, circles, and squares.

Christopher Kennedy Design was retained to handle all hard-surface selections, space planning, and furniture design for this home in Mirada Estates. The designer worked closely with architect Anders Lasater of Laguna Beach for the remodel.

Not long ago, author Anne Rice commissioned Craig Zeigler to make acrylic mirror-backed doll showcases to line a hall. Over the years, he has installed classy handrails in the Bob Hope house and turned out 30 acrylic trays for a Kirk Douglas gift list.

Cambria, the only producer of natural quartz surfaces in the country, made an unusual debut in the Coachella Valley: on the catwalk. Less than a month after opening a design center in Palm Desert, the Minnesota-based company showed off a few of its colors and patterns at Fashion Week El Paseo