Appleton Partners LLP-Architects, known for employing steadfast materials like adobe, shingle, stone, and stucco, devised this stone terrace.

This whitewashed interior by the firm features double-height ceilings.

By varying mass and materials, firm founder Marc Appleton created a Santa Barbara, California, residence “that it looks like it was put together with separate pieces and might have grown over time,” he says. A 1960 Corvette is parked at the front entrance.

The home’s design was influenced by the architecture of the Midwest and New England, as well as England. The challenge, Marc Appleton notes, was to make the disparate sources of inspiration “look at home in Santa Barbara.” The chaise longues are by Janus et Cie.

The public rooms open off the long gallery.

Marc Appleton and decorator Windsor Smith collaborated on the expansion and redesign of a 1926 Los Angeles house by celebrated architect George Washington Smith. Pictured is a newly created loggia, with Gothic dining chairs by McKinnon and Harris.

The firm reimagined a Spanish-style home in Santa Monica, California.