Charles Arnoldi’s Malibu beach house, the ultimate artist’s canvas
![A clean simplicity rules the Malibu home of artist Charles Arnoldi and wife, Katie, a novelist. He designed the house as well as most of its furniture, including an aluminum dining table topped with a small Calder sculpture. Arnold Schwarzenegger liked the table so much that he commissioned one for himself, Charles says. Outside the window is the silhouette of an aloe tree, backed by a sunset over the Pacific.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e051959/2147483647/strip/true/crop/500x334+0+0/resize/1200x802!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F14%2Faa%2F88382ea069026e62f66fc3faf9fd%2Fla-hm-arnoldi-01-jxy0g9nc.jpg)
(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
Spare and simple is the rule in the oceanfront home of Arnoldi and his wife, Katie, a novelist. He designed the house as well as most of its furniture. When they wanted to remake the backyard, no worries: Just drive that bulldozer through the living room.
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