A TRANSCENDENT BATHROOM IN OJAI

A seamless addition allowed for this timeless primary bath, which has been re-imagined as an upgrade dating to ca. 1930.

- Patricia Poore

“This is the last piece in our collection,” the film-director owner remembers thinking when the family first toured the house. For years they had been collecting Monterey, Stickley, and Arts & Crafts furniture; American pottery and Grueby tiles; and native art including Navajo rugs. The aging bungalow, built during the 1910s, was designed by famed architect Myron Hunt. His client was the Midwest industrialist Edward Drummond Libbey (Libbey Glass Co.), who used the place as a hunting lodge. Built of redwood, with board-and-batten construction inside and out, it boasts a front door and beams embellished with Chumash Indian motifs, a massive stone fireplace, and many original fixtures.