STYLE : INTERIORS : Cultural Crossroads

Asian antiques blend seamlessly with Mediterranean architecture in the spacious, two-story home of Santa Monica crafts dealer and collector Gail DeLoach. A horn-shaped Isamu Noguchi floor lamp and a Chinese horseshoe-arm chair echo the arch of the living room’s picture window, and a mix of toffee-colored woods--the burled-elm coffee table and pine chest--tie in with the dark oak floors throughout the house. Other items of visual interest include 15th-Century Thai storage vessels, a 19th-Century Xinjiang rug and a 100-year-old wooden Burmese miner’s pan.

Says DeLoach of her unusual mix of things both East and West: “Mediterranean is so ornate that to put something decorative in the house would have been overkill. Asian furniture is so simple and minimal. I think the juxtaposition works--maybe it’s all the soft curves.”