“After their 1992 purchase of the abandoned C.K.G. Billings Estate in Montecito, Robert and Christine Emmons...were determined to restore and renovate the iconic landmark correctly. Their choice for what turned out to be an extensive three-year project was well-known Santa Barbara residential designer Michael DeRose, who they felt could best recapture the essence that had made this one of the most famous of the magnificent California estates...”
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“Michael DeRose is really a painter, but like George Washington Smith in a former era, he keeps getting offers to design architecture that he can’t refuse. When DeRose’s interest in piqued, it is with a scholar’s curiosity that he researches the minutest details and larger cultural themes of his subject’s time period and with an artists’s skill that he prepares design drawings and full scale details...”
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