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Photos by Frasher
The living room is typical of the cool yet mellow charm of the entire house.
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This Duncan Phyffe card table is a prized possession, with the Georgian mirror above it.
Above an original Martha Washington sewing table hangs a sampler dated 1750.
This is especially true of the Raymond Hattons' homestead, for it Spanish, rococo, and modernistic furnishings found on all sides, it
deceiving, as you will learn on reading
UNIQUE among Hollywood homesteaders are Raymond Hatton and his wife. Practically alone of all the cinema celebrities, they sport not one tiled patio, Spanish desk, or priest's cassock. In this, the paradise of hot-blooded Spanish decorators, their house stands out as in
bas-relief. In the midst of our luxuriance of villas, haciendas, and chalets, the Hatton home stands like a prim New England dame in starched skirts. And the simile continues, for it is a rehabilitation of the period when all America was New England, its interior replete with the charm of the craftmanship of Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Duncan Phyffe, and their contemporaries.
The Hattons are well-nigh passionate on the subject of early American furniture. To say it is their hobby would be , a feeble way of laughing it off. To them the beginning of culture was in 1725, when Duncan Phyffe set up in business. At the sight of a Georgian footstool, they lose all control and are down on hands and knees, peering at the carving to ascertain who made it, when and where. Every book by Lockwood, the authority on the period, is dog-eared within, a week after it comes to the house. And the result of their absorption is that they have one of the finest collections of early American furnishings in California.
It began about five years ago, when Raymond was making "Java Head." The company had gone to Salem, Massachusetts, for locations. Frances, who accompanied her husband, amused herself by prowling among old houses in the . J vicinity. Salem is the heart of the early Ameri