Chocolatiers Hasty and Jacques Torres create tasteful West Coast home

Jacques and Hasty Torres prepare watermelon soup in their new kitchen while Hasty’s mother, Badri Khoei, offers tea. Jacques oversees eight locations of Jacques Torres Chocolate. Hasty Torres runs online retailer Madame Chocolat.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Badri Khoei serves tea in a set she inherited from her mother in Iran and passed down to her daughter Hasty. The Khoeis are immigrants from Iran.   (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

A tiered server holds a selection of Persian pastries.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Watermelon soup is served in a china set that Hasty Torres inherited from her mother, Badri Khoei. The edges are handpainted in gold. The charger and napkin holders are from Z Gallerie and the place mats and napkins are from Crate and Barrel.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Hasty Torres, left, visits with her father, Jahan Khoei, mother, Badri, and husband Jacques in their redecorated living room. Designer Alexis Readinger created a space that is both refined and modern in its unconventional mix of colors, patterns and textures.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

The fireplace is clad in a rare polished stone that has been pieced together in a camouflage pattern.   (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

The subdued color palette in the bedroom creates a restful ambiance.   (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

In the master bedroom, solid off-white fabric surrounds a modern canopy bed. Amber-hued blackout curtains are finished with a custom-sewn scalloped-edge flourish.   (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

A jewel-toned peacock painting in the bedroom symbolizes good luck to the couple.   (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)