" Tell us a little bit about the architectural design?"

" Well, a Spanish colonial revival."

" Yeah."

" It has recessed windows. The tile is splayed out."

" Uh huh."

" Bottle glass."

" Yeah."

" It has a roof overhang. It has the barrel effect between those, between beams that run straight through the house."

" Okay."

" The----"

" It's very asymmetrical. It's an informal----"

" It is."

" kind of look."

" Yeah."

" What's in this tower?"

" This is the tower that goes to the second floor."

" The staircase goes up."

" The staircase is in the----"

" [Unk] fiberglass windows."

" Yeah."

" And."

" And what's this wing over here?"

" This wing over here? This is part of the garage."

" Uh huh."

" Four-car garage, but that's Spanish tile, 5 courses, which is very unusual."

" On the roof. On the roof."

" How come you have cemented between them?"

" Well, because it gets some strong winds---- "

" Yeah."

" that would lift up this tile, so they cemented the [unk]."

" Well, speaking of tile, I know that this is kind of a real show place for the Malibu pottery works. Tell us about that."

" Well, that's the pre-tile. It's---- They furnished all the tile for the house here as a retreat, and for many houses, Spanish type houses in the Beverly Hills and they're about [unk]."

" But the factory that made it was only here for a few years."

" 5 years, from 1926 to 1932. Burned down in 31."

" Yeah, yeah. So this is very unusual and rare stuff."

" Very rare. Very rare. Some of the colors of such are made with a secret formula,----"

" Uh huh."

" which you can't use today because of the ingredients like the window----"

" It had restrictions [unk]."

" and had restrictions [unk]."

" Yeah."

" Now, this is kind of a Persian motif. I know there's tiles in the other facade they'd borrowed from all sorts of other cultures."

" May have Mayan and all kinds----"

" Yeah."

" of cultures."

" Can we go and take a look?"

" Sure, let's take a look at them."

" What a beautiful found, Jess."

" Yeah, that's a Moorish star."

" Yeah."

" And it's a star."

" The variety of ceramic tile in the fountain and on this facade of the house is really remarkable, and here we do see a little bit of symmetry coming into play with these 2 masses that balance, right?"

" Right."

" Yeah."

" And the balcony goes across to join them together."

" Yeah."

" And it has the barrel effect there. We saw on the other side. Let's [unk] this---- the [unk] beams----"

" The steel beams supporting----"

" supporting the----"

" all the way through. all the way through."

" Uh huh."

" And they're painted in between."

" Yeah."

" By the [unk] artists."

" That's quite a chimney up there."

" Yeah, that is. That's---- well, that's one of them. We have 7 chimneys in the house for heat."

" Seven fireplaces?"

" Seven fireplaces and----"

" Hard to believe you'd need that at the beach."

" Well, they didn't, but they needed it in the winter when they were here."

" Yeah."

" They had electric heaters, but eventually got gas."

" Yeah."

" Now, these 2 end rooms with the funny shaped windows. They're really something else. What do you call this window?"

" That's Moorish architecture."

" Yeah."

" It's a take off for the Moorish and it goes back to the early Moorish who had donkeys with side paddle."

" That sacks on the side."

" And they take them in during desert storms. They'd bring them in to the fence."

" Without even having to take the path."

" Exactly."

" Which fits to this shape."

" [Unk]."

" Yeah."

" And that was adapted into a Moorish architecture."

" And of course the Moorish occupied Spain for many, many centuries and that's the correlation between Moorish and Spanish architecture."

" It's their contribution."

" What is this room?"

" This is the living room."

" The living room. What a view they would have."

" And on the other side is a dining room,----"

" Okay."

" which has companioned Moorish window."

" And in this----"

" And then here, we have this beautiful----"

" Spanish courtyard. Spanish courtyard. "

" Yeah."

" There are tables out here."

" Oh, look at the tile work here with the---- the bird. I guess it's a peacock."

" Peacock. 2 beautiful peacocks."

" Spectacular."

" And peacocks are something that show up throughout the house and various murals."

" Now, I see what you were talking about. The balcony is being painted. The balcony area is being painted."

" That's painted right through. It's clear in the insides. It's weathered on the outside."

" Uh huh, yeah."

" And a steel beam."

" Here, we can see where the wood trim has fallen away. We need a little bit of a repair work done here."

" Absolutely."

" But you can see the steel beam up there."

" Right, yeah."

" And what's behind this beautiful arch door?"

" Behind this beautiful arch door is a Persian rug, although it's not a rug, it's made out of tile."

" Unbelievable."

" You see that [unk] and take a look at that."

" Unbelievable. This was all done right here at the pottery work."

" Right as well."

" Well, can we go upstairs and take a look?"

" Sure, by all means."

" Which way? This way?"

" Well, I've been to a lot of balconies and roof deck, but this has a spectacular detail like all this zigzag carpet top, and what do you call these?"

" [Unk] are not California---- not Spanish-California."

" No."

" They're put there especially by the Adamson's."

" Why is that?"

" For a 3 and half year old child so they wouldn't put chicken wire so they wouldn't crawl over the top."

" So, they strung chicken wire around the perimeter of the----"

" All around the perimeter."

" of the decks up here. That's something else."

" This is a bench, huh?-That's a beautiful tiled bench."

" Yeah."

" And then on a cold day, October, November,----"

" Yeah."

" December, that would be heated by a flow of the----"

" Of the fireplace."

" fireplace coming down."

" That's wonderful. And the light fixture button is that antique?-That special ornamental was built for the Adamson House. There are 2 or 3 of them around the area."