Javaneh Pirooz

Venice Beach

Salt air, low light, and a palette drawn down to almost nothing so that the collected objects speak.

The stone table close up — a trailing plant, a green candle in a glass and a stack of books on the dark veined top, with the cane chair backs behind and daylight through an open door.
The courtyard: two curved lounge chairs and a slung timber chair set around a low fire bowl on flagstone paving, with bamboo growing close on every side.
The dining room seen across the living room, rust cushions on the sofa in the foreground and daylight falling from a skylight.
A four-poster bed with a tall upholstered headboard, rust and olive cushions along it and a knitted throw across the foot, burr-figured nightstands and ribbed lamps either side, layered jute rugs underfoot and a bathroom visible through the opening beyond.
A kitchen island in figured timber under a dark stone counter, two carved timber stools tucked beneath it, a dark wooden bowl of lemons and a pale one of fruit on top beside a lit candle, and a long window behind the run of cabinets looking into bamboo.
A timber lounge chair with a cream throw on a round jute rug, a three-legged stool with a dark bowl in front of it, and a tall dark vessel of branches on a stone pedestal against ivory curtains.
A weathered timber table on a jute rug outside, canvas-backed folding chairs drawn around it, a wooden bowl of lemons and a cut lemon on a round board, seen through an open door with bamboo growing tall against a dark red wall behind.
Two low timber-and-cane armchairs facing a round stone coffee table across a cream rug, a trailing plant and books on the table, a long ottoman at the right and a textured plaster wall behind.
Looking along the dark timber dining table: a mottled stone vase of leafy branches and flowering stems, a shallow banded-stone dish of lemons and limes beyond it and a larger one nearer, under the wide woven pendant, with tall yellow blossom in the corner of the room.
A burr-figured nightstand beside an upholstered headboard, a ribbed dark lamp with a cream drum shade on it next to a candle and a small glass vase of rust-coloured stems, and books on the shelf below.
A grey upholstered armchair with a rust fringed throw over one arm, a brass drum table beside it holding books, and a rustic pitcher of dried grass by the sliding doors onto the bamboo.
The dining table seen from the deck through folded-back doors, a fiddle-leaf fig at the threshold and a low white daybed on the patterned rug outside.
The cane armchairs and stone table from across the room, the ottoman running along the window wall.
A leafy plant in a mottled stone pot and a wooden bowl of lemons and limes on the dark dining table, the wide woven pendant above, and past the folded-back doors a long cushioned daybed on the deck with bamboo close behind it.
Looking past the bed and its lamp into the bathroom: an oak vanity under a stone top and a tall mirror, a candle and dried rust-coloured stems beside the basin, and a slot window onto greenery throwing branch shadows across the wall.
A cane-fronted sideboard set with pale vessels, seen past a door frame, with a white sofa and a round stone side table on a striped rug in the foreground.
An outdoor kitchen in pale plaster — a built-in grill, a sink and timber-doored cupboards under a wall lamp and a string of bulbs — seen past the end of a weathered timber table set with a ceramic bottle and small cups on a round board, with stepping stones through low planting and slender trees beyond.
Two dark-framed lounge chairs with woven rope backs and seats drawn up to a round marbled coffee table on ball feet, a candle and books on it beside a trailing plant, a pale sofa in the foreground and folded-back doors onto a cushioned daybed on the deck beyond.
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