SPECIAL ISSUE: CALIFORNIA TROPICAL By David A. Keeps and Adamo DiGregorio Once again, rattan and wicker grace rooms, indoors and out. Gentle breezes stir banana leaf prints. If you’re not in L.A., you can at least pretend you are. By Adamo DiGregorio and David A. Keeps WANTED: Designers and hot-glue gun wielders scour the seashores for treasures that can lend a tropical feeling to any style of interior. By Lili Singer CALIFORNIA GARDEN: Filmmaker Michel Horvat, trusting his eye and his green thumb, turns a sun-scorched yard into a shady paradise.
|  | “I wanted furniture that made you feel like you were on a vacation,” says Joe O’Brien, with his dog, Billy. (Alexander Gallardo / LAT)
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