The village is a pastiche, a word that in architectural discourse often carries pejorative undertones - though one suspects that Williams-Ellis would have embraced the term with enthusiasm.
A Roman-style fountain stands in front of the entrance, and inside, a spiral staircase curls upward beneath an immense chandelier, suggesting a kind of European pastiche pushing back against the California wilderness.
It's fun and just another fun day of working in the studio and probably making too many quips that we don't have time to make and fooling around a little bit too much, which is sort of my signature pastiche.