Cedric Gibbons was the king of art direction during MGM’s greatest years: 1925 to 1956. It was his eye that gave their pictures that sumptuous MGM look, so you can imagine that his house wouldn’t be too shabby. This is the living room of his streamline moderne home that was built in 1930 in Santa Monica. Quite honestly, I’d always assumed his home would richly decorated—almost to the point of being over-the-top—but I really like the clean, unfussy lines of this room.