For an Altadena client, Bacon put wicker and New Guinea art in front of an adobe fireplace. “You can have willow Adirondack furniture and Middle East textiles like kilims” in the new Western interior, says Su Bacon, Grether’s decorator. Ewing’s glitzy Dallas compound, the new down-home is growing up to accommodate a world of tastes. Steeped in screen history, but miles away from Hopalong Cassidy’s hacienda or J.R. With a look that embraces traditional cowboys-and-Indians iconography along with East Coast rusticity, Old California influences and modern proportions, Western is primed for a remake. Welcome to a new frontier: 21st century Western, an old style of decor that is newly popular. But, whoa, what’s that twig table doing by the Arts and Crafts stained-glass window? And isn’t that an Oriental rug and Asian coffee table at the foot of the burl wood sofa?

It’s no surprise then that the inside of Grether’s homestead looks like a tableau from the Autry. Another souvenir of the Wild West, the horseshoe embedded in his front drive, is not only for good luck but also sort of a signature for Grether, who raises thoroughbreds. “It was struck by lightning in Nebraska,” says the peaceable Pasadena native, who hung the beast’s skull on the back porch of his 1906 Craftsman home.

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