June 2010
Viceroy Anguilla, Barnes Bay, Anguilla
Kelly Wearstler sheds Hollywood Regency for monochrome Caribbean on a coral bluff above Anguilla's Barnes and Meads Bays. Surprising nontropical textures (horsehair; gray marble) and abstract art lend real star quality to this modern property sandwiched between two white-sand beaches. Most of the 166 guest rooms have their own sundeck and plunge pool, while linen-covered sofas in the Sunset Lounge are positioned to catch the last rays during cocktail hour.

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July / August 2008
The Big Valley
With a little help from talented friends Sandy Hill and Tom Dittmer take an uncompromising modern house and give it some much needed soul

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July 2008
Ranch Style and Very Relaxed
Sandy Hill's Sunday Salons are laid-back gatherings at Rancho La Zaca. And Lunch? It's seriously endless.

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February 2008
Shear Genius
Designer Art Luna is planting roots inour local soil.

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February 2008
Masterpiece Garden Theater
This Hollywood Hills backyard was a plain-Jane affair until designer Art Luna gave it a glamour-girl makeover worthy of its new owner, fashion designer Yael Aflano. The high-drama, low-maintenance stage is now set for afternoons by the pool or cocktail soirees that last well into the night.

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July 2007
Orchid Slathouse: Tim Clarke/Art Luna
Tim Clarke and Art Luna have built their well-deserved reputations on knowing how to make art out of outdoor living. For the Orchid Slathouse, they expanded on the idea of a modern version of existing garden pavilions found throughout the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens. Tall wooden beams enclose the area decorated with teak furniture, spherical light fixtures, a vintage fireplace, antique tiles and rows of seating suitable for lounging and entertaining. the organic materials and comfortable interiors combine to create a seamless transition between outdoors and indoors, emphasizing the beauty of outdoor living that prevails in their projects.

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June 2007
Take It Outside
Ease into summer with an alfresco Dinner Party ... tour actress Aisha Taylor's midcentury L.A. home, which seamlessly melds indoor and outdoor living ... and picnic with the stars at a stylish It-Bag Lunch benefit.

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June 2007
Garden of Delight
A shared passion for nature has fueled the collaboration between lansdscape designer Art Luna and Lisa Eisner on the look and feel of her Bel-Air garden.

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January 2007
The Cutting Hedge
Art Luna, hairstylist to Hollywood's elite, sidelines as a garden designer with a growing reputation.

The New York Times lauds his work creating "otherworldly hair color that has been the gold standard for clients like Reese Witherspoon and Kirsten Dunst." But it's Art Luna's other line of work - as an innovative garden designer - that has kept him busy lately. A couple of years ago he opened an office next to his Santa Monica salon for Art Luna Garden, a landscaping design company, and he's now focusing on a new kind of pruning.

"I didn't find gardening - gardening found me," says Luna, who became enamored of landscaping when he was looking to spruce up his Santa Monica salon courtyard. Underwhelmed by the work of local garden designers, Luna looked elsewhere for inspiration. His passion was sparked by a trip to Montecito's Lotusland, which motivated him to take on the project himself. "The designer of Lotusland, Madame Ganna Walska, was an opera singer," says Luna. "That's when I realized you don't have to be trained as a landscaper to design gardens." Luna transformed the courtyard into an exotic space, complete with oversized birdcages and groves of bamboo. The gardens at both his salons (he has a second location in West Hollywood) now double as coveted venues for an al fresco cut-and-color, as well as advertisement for his garden design business.

Although Luna lacks formal design training, he considers himself a dedicated student of landscape architecture. For the past five years, he's been a member of the Royal Oak Foundation, which has allowed him to visit the UK's most notable National Trust Properties and gardens, including Cliveden and Sissinghurst.

"A garden isn't just there to be pretty," Luna says. "I'm much more interested in creating places where you can sit and drink wine or have lunch." Or in Luna's case, a beautiful place to exercise his creative styling talents.

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June 2006
Coastal Cottage
Life by the beach in Malibu calls for cool hues, nautical accents and an abundance of greenery.

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April 2006
Growing Business
Los Angeles garden designer Art Luna succeeds with a mixture of charm, botanical expertise, and passion.

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March 2006
L.A. Soul
... and english sensibility. Landscape designer Art Luna brings structure and order to a lush Bel Air canyon garden..

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Spring 2006
Neatly Groomed
The Hollywood Hairstylist Art Luna traded in his scissors for shears. Armand Limnander sees how his gardens grow.

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March 2005
Art Luna: The Gardener
As the city's reigning highlight king, Art Luna has long been in the business of enhancing what nature had intended. So it seems fitting that his clients (Jamie Tisch and Lisa Eisner, to name two), who were accustomed to having their hair done in the splendor of his salon's garden, started hiring Luna to tame their unkempt hedges at home. Now having your garden designed by Art Luna is as much of a status marker as being a Luna blonde. "Structure first, flowers second" is his philosophy, which in practice grows into gardens characterized by "rooms" and secret pathways. "Working with gardens is not that different from dealing with hair," he says, "though I must admit it's humbling to see what Mother Nature can do without any help."

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2003
Secret Gardens of Hollywood
and Private Oases in Los Angeles
Art Luna's life revolves around Sunset Plaza, a chic stretch of outdoor cafés and boutiques at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Sunset Plaza Drive in Los Angeles. His house is up a hill, just a two-minute ride from the boulevard. His beauty salon is five minutes from his house. One feeds the other – one "saves the other" – he says. A couple of years after Luna replanted the salon's courtyards and some of his clients (Stockard Channing, Steve and Jamie Tisch, Ben Stiller) started asking him to do their gardens, he began to spend as much time on landscape design as on hair.

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