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The shelving, ladder, and lamps in the library are custom made, the mahogany table is by Rose Tarlow Melrose House, and the chairs are English Regency. Photographer: William Waldron

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Architect Margaret Griffin, in collaboration with architect Elyse Grinstein, renovated a home on Los Angeles’s West Side, an area that has natural creeks and groves of indigenous trees. The star tree here is a 300-year-old sycamore that shades a small spring and lush slope in back. The snug library “started out with a full brick wall facing the tree,” explains the owner, but the brick was replaced by sheets of glass to bridge the room’s connection to the outdoors.

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At a house she remodeled in California’s Carmel Valley, designer Sally Sirkin Lewis encircled the library with shelves, added French doors to bring in views of the lush landscape, and outfitted the space with Le Corbusier Grand Confort armchairs.

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In the study, where linen wall panels are trimmed with nailheads, Edward J. Wormley chairs covered in a J. Robert Scott leather are grouped with a custom-made sectional sofa. Guido Gambone vases stand at the window; the mirror-top side table is a vintage Mark Sciarrillo design, and the carpeting is from Patterson, Flynn & Martin.

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An Italian Directoire table is paired with a Kaare Klint–inspired wing chair upholstered in an Edelman suede. Holly Hunt linen covers the DKDA-designed “bookcase sofa,” and the curtains are of a Zimmer + Rohde fabric.

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