In their world of change, couple modernizes a Los Feliz home

Designer Emmanuel Cobbet reconfigured an outdated home with awkward additions as this more cohesive space for a family of five. He also organized the outdoor spaces, creating living and dining rooms as well as a garden and spa.

A David Trubridge wooden pendant light fixture illuminates the front hallway of Francois Moret and Anne Le Jeune’s 1927 home.

A Ball Lamp by the Belgian firm Tamawa sits on a table by Jens Quistgaard. The skateboard is by artist Chris Johanson; the photographed portrait by Jochen Gerz.

Detail of round window and Guy Bourdin pictures in the entrance hallway of Francois Moret and Anne Le Jeune’s renovated home.

Entrance hallway and dinning room of the home. To increase the flow of the floor plan, designer Emmanuel Cobbet removed doors and widened archways. In the dining room, Tom Dixon pendants paintings by French artist Bruno Peinado are a focal point. B&B Italia chairs surround the table, which was custom made in Barcelona, Spain.

In the living room, Le Jeune sits on an Edra sofa with Huit 17 designer Emmanuel Cobbet. Moret enters from the music room. The side chairs are midcentury Poul Jensen designs.

Granny meets groovy: An antique floor lamp purchased in Pasadena illuminates a painting by contemporary artist Chris Johanson.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

A vintage Eames lounger sits by the fireplace. Designer Emmanuel Cobbet reconfigured the fireplace as a streamlined hearth that integrates display space for record company owner Moret’s vinyl collection.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Instead of spending an additional $3,000 for a 4-foot-wide firebox, designer Cobbet used a standard 3-foot model and centered it in a larger hearth opening. Above the fireplace, a work by French street artist Mambo and a Guy Bourdin photograph.

Above the fireplace, a wall of rip-cut oak holds glossy black display shelves for Moret’s art and oddities, a yellow Virgin statue by Katharina Fritsch, an drawing of a man by an unknown artist purchased in Palm Springs and an alligator skull from Necormance in L.A.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

In the book-lined music room, Moret, who has produced music with David Lynch and James McMurtry, plays a Yamaha grand piano. Vintage floor lamp by Artemide.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The founder of the record label Complicated Game, Moret is also an art and photography collector with a library that includes monographs on Andy Warhol, Guy Bourdin and Raymond Pettibon.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The central staircase, an original feature of Francois Moret and Anne le Jeune’s home on N. Alexandria Ave., January 14, 2015. Designer Emmanuel Cobbet, reconfigured this outdated 1927 Los Feliz Spanish home with awkward additions as a more cohesive space for a family of five. He also organized the outdoor spaces, creating living and dining rooms as well as a garden and spa.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The U-shaped landing at the top of the staircase offers space for large scale artworks and a futuristic chandelier by Apparatus.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

In daughter Sasha’s room, works by the Belgian artist Damein Lepeleire frame the doorway to the en-suite bath.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

A collection of Munny figures line the windowsill of daughter Sasha’s room, which overlooks downtown Los Angeles. To enlarge the room, Cobbet enclosed what was once a sleeping porch.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The bedroom includes an Ikea desk and Modernica chair. The artwork is a collaboration he did with friends at age 10. The room overlooks downtown Los Angeles.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Master bedroom. Designer Emmanuel Cobbet added a Juliet balcony that overlooks the pool. The leather chair is a first edition Arne Jacobsen purchased at Denmark 50 in L.A.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

In her home office Anne le Jeune, a co-founder of the Colombian footwear company Mamahuhu, adds photos to a magnetic bulletin board.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The music room, painted a yellow inspired by French homes, opens to a patio equipped with a ping-pong table.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The kitchen, once a dysfunctional jumble of smaller spaces, now has a sleek wall integrating appliances, a porcelain-tiled dining space with vintage Eames chairs and a walkout to an elevated al fresco table.   (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Detail of Tom Dixon’s Etch Shade Brass pendants in the dining room. the pendants are $525 each, from Twentieth in Los Angeles.

Detail of the Blues kitchen cabinetry system by Italian manufacturer Alta, which features hefty wooden pulls.

Detail of open shelving for cookbooks, a La Conica coffee pot by Alessi, left, and a tea pot acquired in Morocco in the kitchen.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Where a hot tub once sat, designer Emmanuel Cobbet, shown here, created an outdoor lounge with a concrete fire pit and Restoration Hardware furniture.

Designer Cobbet added a Juliet balcony outside the master suite and multiple windows and doors to the rear of the house. Babylon Pools of Glendale refurbished the pool deck with pavers and added an elevated spa clad in glass mosaic tiles.

Detail of the tiled front porch.

Le Jeune stands in the front doorway of the updated 1927 home she shares with her husband and three children. Cobbet of Huit 17 reconfigured the porch, adding an ipe wood fence.

To add visual punch to the garden hardscape, Cobbet used Belgard’s Dublin cobble stones in a pattern that is deliberately ragged.

Detail of the roof line and a second-floor window.

Francois Moret and Anne Le Jeune’s home at dusk.