Designed to clean up his act

Peter Schroff has never had a problem living life to the fullest. For 16 years, the set designer and installation artist turned his orange-and-green bungalow in Venice into an exuberant showcase of leftover props and knickknacks, a place where deer antlers covered the kitchen ceiling, surfboards doubled as shelves and geisha bobblehead dolls danced under gyrating hula lamps.

By Audrey Davidow

April 21, 2005