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Angelina Gives Brad a House Party

Fri., Dec. 8, 2006 4:38 PM PST by Natalie Finn

Angelina Jolie has solved the mystery of what to get the thinking man on every girl's gift list this season.

In honor of Brad Pitt's upcoming 43rd birthday, Jolie arranged a private tour of Fallingwater, the landmark Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house tucked in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania that has fascinated her architecture buff boyfriend ever since he first saw pictures of it while in college.

"He's so hard to buy for," Jolie told the staff members assembled for the occasion, as reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pitt turns the big 4-3 on Dec. 18.

The intellectual duo spent two hours exploring the house Thursday, after which Jolie arranged an intimate champagne-and-caviar reception for them in the living room. The historical home, built in 1935 for the owner of Kaufmann's Department Store, is now a public museum.

After sharing canapés à deux, Jolie invited the museum's staff to share in the festivities.

"Brad said he had a visual sense of Fallingwater, but experiencing it in person, hearing the sound of the waterfall cascading under the house and smelling the wood from the fireplace, was better than anything he could have imagined," Fallingwater curator of education Cara Armstrong told the Post-Gazette.

The house, with its cantilevered terraces and organic design, was partially built on top of an active waterfall. Boulders found in the surrounding woods were used to construct the living room's fireplace.

"He and I talked quite a bit about design and art," Armstrong, who picked up the couple at the Latrobe airport and led their tour, said. "He was incredibly well informed about architecture."

Pitt's passion for the subject has been documented extensively, from the interest he has taken in his own homes to his recent pet project, sponsorship of a design competition in New Orleans. The Babel star helped choose the winning blueprint in a contest to find an ecofriendly way to rebuild the most devastated parts of the city.

Jolie and Pitt were "very gracious and very engaged in the house," Armstrong said. "As we say in the Midwest, you could tell their mothers raised them right."

And how. The couple spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Vietnam, handing out toys and candy to children at an orphanage in Saigon. Prior to that they made a stop in Cambodia, where they toured a genocide museum that used to be a Khmer Rouge death camp, and Jolie met with government officials about the $1.3 million she has pledged to a forest conservation project in the country's northwest region.