Turns Out Spanish Revival Travels Well — Even to the West Coast

Florida has spent the better part of a century getting comfortable with red tile roofs, iron scrollwork, and courtyards that could pass for Seville — from Addison Mizner's Palm Beach to the gated drives of Naples, it's close to a regional uniform. So there's a certain satisfaction in hearing that a fresh take on the style has turned up clear across the country, in a roughly 9,000-square-foot home in Southern California. The house leans on the genre's familiar Old World bones — the kind of thick walls, timber, and ironwork our coastal towns know on sight — while giving them a distinctly contemporary finish, trading strict period reproduction for modern comfort. It's a good reminder that the look Florida likes to think it owns holds up just fine when someone else gets their hands on it.

With reporting from Robb Report.