Jean Louis Deniot’s Los Angeles home is nestled in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, and it’s a 1930’s fairy-tale. “When the weather is nasty in Paris I jump on a plane and come to beautiful La La Land,” he told AD. It took Deniot two years to complete the renovation of the over 2,000-square-foot home. The charming house has Tudor style exteriors, and Spanish-style interiors, many homes in L.A. share a Spanish-style interior architecture. Jean Louis is known for his dramatic while livable interiors, but for his Los Angeles home, he kept things more on the relaxing side.
In the living room, a 17th-century Spanish chandelier hangs from a pointed vaulted ceiling. Klismos chairs and Moroccan add to the eclecticism of the room.
The style is still elegantly cozy. The renovation included opening up the ground floor to create an indoor-outdoor flow ideally for Los Angeles weather. Deniot worked with L.A.-based landscape designer Scott Shrader to create what Jean-Louis envisioned as a romantic garden- a series of low terraced walls to create parterres for both planting and outdoor living. To read more about the exciting details and decisions behind the renovation head over to AD.
I love the T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings daybed in the library. Jean-Louis kept things simple by displaying books on the floor.
Jean-Louis Deniot sitting his L.A. home.
In the dining room, the dining table is surrounded by Jacques Adnet and Andre Arbus chairs. 
In the dining room, an antique Ethiopian shield and a 1940s French relief hang over a 1940s Jean-Charles Moreux console flanked by Jacques Adnet chairs. This vignette in the dining room is quintessentially Frenchy-chic.
Jean-Michel Frank bench at the end of the bed in the master bedroom.
The master bath has a metal tub and a Karl Springer mirror.
A 1940’s beautiful Gueridon table under the stair. 
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Below, the beautiful outdoor spaces. “We literally carved out space,” Shrader says, describing the construction of a series of low terraced walls to create parterres for both planting and outdoor living.
All photos by Simon Upton for Architectural Digest.
