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Pays and Bernsen's own artistry as renovators first garnered notice after they spent three years redoing an English country-style home in Beverly Hills, and then sold it to actor Steve Martin in 1995. The house included a wine cellar, screening room and music room as well as a guest house made of stone.
Doors were imported from England, and wooden beams originated in a barn in Connecticut. "It was just a great house. We went all out," Pays recalls.There are also notable examples of with an atrium (an interior court surrounded 1$ rooms). Some of these are of relatively ancie construction, such as the House with the Wood Partition, the Samnite House, and the House -5^51 Neptune and Amphitrite. Of unusual design £jt(,er the great villas in the southern part of the ci including the House of Argo, the House of t Hostelry, the House of the Mosaic Atrium, a the House of the Deer. In these houses the t ditional plan is modified. The peristilia (cole naded courtyards), the gardens, reception haj and other rooms were oriented toward the sot in order to take advantage of the view towa the sea.
The hereditary landowners dominated the House of Lords, then almost as powerful as the House of Commons. Through the system of bor-augh representation (which until 1832 excluded nost of the big new industrial towns but brought nembership of the Commons to men virtually lominated by landowners for tiny villages), they :ould sway the Commons as well. More than i fourth of the Commons' members were peers or ions of peers, and many others were "placemen," he recipients of royal or aristocratic patronage. Jntil 1834 cabinets invariably included a ma-ority of peers, usually holding the most lucra-ive patronage-dispensing posts.
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