When Amanda Chantal Bacon opened her tiny juice shop on Rose Avenue in Los Angeles four years ago, she didn’t think she’d be leaving the neighborhood anytime soon. “I had this amazing love shack in Venice that I bought the month I opened Moon Juice,” she recalls, explaining how she poured heart and soul into the ground-up renovation. “I couldn’t imagine going anywhere else.” At the time, she also couldn’t imagine the frenzy her business would stoke in the local wellness scene (and beyond—New York locations are next), and as Moon Juice expanded elsewhere in the city, Bacon cast an eye further afield, too.
“I wanted something that was big and bright and open, with really clean lines—something that my little boy could turn into a very big boy in,” she says, referring to her energetic son, Rohan, now 4. With the help of a real estate friend, she soon found what she was looking for: an airy, cabin-like house nestled against a sloping hillside in Rustic Canyon, a quiet enclave in west Los Angeles. Built in the late 1950s with a pop-out Frank Gehry addition from 1983—with windows designed to frame the rise and fall of the moon—the 4,000-square-foot home was, to Bacon, as much an investment in contemporary architecture as it was an opportunity to finally realize her free-form approach to living. Formal dining room, no; steady stream of houseguests, yes.
Several months after settling in, her eclectic strand of warm modernism is on view in just about every room. There are iconic pieces of design (a round Saarinen table, Alessandro Becchi’s Anfibio sofa); a collection of mid-century lighting; a tactile mix of sheepskins and Moroccan rugs; and the sort of accents you might expect of a rising wellness guru, like large-scale crystals and a prism hung in an upstairs window that refracts rainbows across the room. Many of the house’s existing features, such as the wide-plank hemlock floors downstairs and the wooden hot tub on the patio, filled with oxygenated, alkalized water, fit seamlessly into Bacon’s vision; other elements, namely the disco-era wet bar upstairs, have an expiration date. “This is being turned into a breakfast bar. It will be raw pink stone—no more smoky mirrors!” she says with a laugh, running her hand over the counter. But as with Moon Juice, she’s thoughtfully planning her next moves and enjoying the process. “There’s a white owl that lives in the tree that hoots at night, and there are incredible hikes right there,” Bacon says, gesturing through the kitchen’s glass doors that lead to an outdoor dining area. “It’s almost like a retreat center. That’s kind of how the house is unfolding.”
A story on Amanda Chantal Bacon and the rise of Moon Juice appears in the January 2016 issue of Vogue.
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