Flipping Through the Private Stash

Lee Stanton’s Upper Village antiques emporium, Private Stash, a tiara’s toss from Maison K, was jamming with bibliophiles for the launch of a new Rizzoli 256-page coffee table tome Santa Barbara: At Home in Paradise by L.A. author Douglas Woods with lavish photographs from Matt Walla.

Woods, who has written myriad works including The California Casa and Classic Homes of Los Angeles, features a host of designs from Santa Clara del Norte in 1838 to the Marc Appleton-designed Villa Corbeau in Riven Rock built in 2006.

It took three years to complete the project which shows the American Riviera at its best.

Woods’ next book will chronicle long-lived millionairess Huguette Clark’s Bellosguardo, the art-filled mansion overlooking East Beach, which is now open to the public.