A PACIFIC PALISADES HOME BY DESIGNER MARGARET WEITZMAN

Some of my favorite interiors successfully blend the old with the new. Los Angeles designer Margaret Weitzman does a fine job of doing just that! She has carefully curated her own Pacific Palisades home with with antique pieces paired with flea market finds. The result is stunning.

In my own house, I can mix every single era…and my couches don’t match. It’s eclectic but sensible. I care as much about how the space works as how it looks. — Margaret Weitzman

Above the great room’s marble fireplace, Weitzman hung vintage mercury plates that she found in a Hancock Park consignment shop to reflect light throughout, where mismatched custom upholstered sofas keep company with an original George Nakashima desk that was a Mother’s Day gift from her husband years ago. The rug is a family heirloom that belonged to her mother.

In the kitchen, a cabinet painted in Benjamin Moore Chatsworth Cream houses a mix of English stoneware dishes and Johnson Brothers blue-and-white china. The metal pedestals supporting the kitchen table were found on the streets of Paris, and Weitzman designed the top. Nautical paintings by Tony de los Reyes hang above Margaret Weitzman’s collection of colorful Peking glass vessels. Vintage Baker cane chairs surround a table from Lucca Antiques, beneath a Meeka pendant.: The entryway includes works from artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Kim McCarty and Tony Berlant. An Ed Ruscha painting is the focal point of the library, which is paneled in stained pine. Pat McGann tribal pillows on a John Derian Geranium sofa mix with a pair of 1970s acid-etched tables by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne. Vintage Baccarat and Saint-Louis crystal perfume bottles with vintage chinoiserie boxes. In the master bathroom, a hand-painted, marble-topped Jacqueline Moore vanity is accented with nickel-plated antique sconces. A Venetian bed from Baker is dressed with a Roberta Roller Rabbit quilt. Weitzman found her vintage garden furniture at a Bel Air estate sale, repainted in Benjamin Moore Jet Black and upholstered with Sunbrella fabrics; the fountain and garden stools are also estate sale finds.