"What I like is quality and character. Quality of things, life, way of living." * Kalef Alaton photographed in the entrance gallery of his Beverly Hills residence in January 1988, a year and four months before his passing. * Born in Istanbul, Alaton studied painting before arriving in Los Angeles in 1968. In 1983 he bought a Beverly Hills apartment house that was once home to Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor and turned it into a garden residence, Mediterranean style. There were giant urns, fine antiques, ancient sculptures and such extraordinary objects from Mallett's as two 17th-century bronze deer from Tibet. * #kalefalaton #interiordesigner #1980sdesign #1980sstyle #californiastyle #mediterraneanstyle #classicelegance #classicalinspiration #antiquity #artefacts #classicalartefacts #romanantiquity #greekantiquity #tibetanantiquity #nautilusstaircase #villastyle #franksinatra #marilynmonroe #elizabethtaylor https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs_LZCpl7GC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ea1zgjmvyq7a
