Tag: Coastal Design

28Jan

Windsor: A Luxury Residential Club At Vero Beach: CSOW

Windsor, vero beach, florida

I feel like I’m cheating by posting about Windsor, a luxury residential club in Vero Beach, Florida as a commercial space of the week.  For many reasons, first because although it offers many commercial spaces, it’s also a community.  Windsor is a village by the sea in Vero Beach, Florida where every detail was perfectly planned and designed to give their residents the ultimate luxury living experience.  Every one of their amenities is set in perfect-looking settings.

Windsor vero beach florida

The private residential club offers a full-scale Equestrian Centre consisting of 18 stables and 14 paddocks with 4.6 miles of riding trails surrounding the community, a 400-yard-long polo field, the tennis courts designed by Wimbledon champion Stan Smith are lined with jasmine, a championship golf course and much more.  Windsor was founded in 1989 by Canadian businessman W. Galen Weston and his philanthropist wife, Hilary Weston, the former lieutenant governor of Ontario.  The now luxury residential community started as a private summer residence for the Weston family, later they enlisted Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk to design the New Urbanism style of living.

Windsor vero beach florida

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22Aug

Tour Tory Burch’s Beach Home In The Caribbean Island of Antigua

Tory Burch’s beach home in Antigua is not only chic by design but also by provenance. This beautiful beach house once belonged to the garden designer and private socialite, Bunny Mellon. Bunny is well known for her impeccable taste and fantastic garden designs. Albeit the house sat for years without being sold, once Tory Burch laid eyes on the beach house she undoubtedly saw the gem that Architect H. Page Cross built for Bunny Mellon in the 1960’s. Vogue describes the pretty house as a series of elegant pavilions. Back in the days, Bunny enlisted the legendary Interior Designer Billy Baldwin to jointly with her, design the house. This was usually the case with most of Bunny Mellon’s houses; she was an active collaborator in the interior design process of most of them. Her only design request for this particular coastal home? She told Billy Baldwin to make the interior look as if was furnished with furniture found in the attic.

Tory Burch's beach home, canopy bedroom

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24Jul

A 200-Year-Old Farmhouse In Mallorca Gets A Major Makeover

Mallorca villa

Mallorca Villa

Ammonite fossils on top of an antique table welcome visitors in the entry way.

Imagine coming to your summer home and being greeted by an aromatic scent emanating from a line of olive, almond and cork trees that indicate the path to the house. This forever-summer home is located in Manacor in the south-east of Mallorca. It’s been entirely renovated in a way that preserves the house’s original Mallorcan spirit by Architect and Interior Designer Ramon Garcia Jurado. The clients’ request was for a ‘home where you can hang out all day in a sarong and be barefoot most of the time’. The final result is that and more, Garcia Jurado was able to interpret his clients’ wish while making the home also comfortable and sophisticated enough. The white walls and bare resin floors serve as the perfect background for the rich colored antiques throughout the house.

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17Jul

A Charming Fisherman House In The Ile De Re by Christian Liaigre

A Charming Fisherman cottage in the isle de , Christian Liegre

A Charming Fisherman cottage in the ile de Re, Christian Liaigre

Simplicity doesn’t mean sterile, and a fisherman house doesn’t always imply unworldly either.  Quite often good design is harder to interpret in simple, authentic ways than in grand, opulent ways.  As this charming fisherman house shows, good Interior Design embraces the home instead of disguising it.  Christian Liaigre took inspiration from the 18th-century architecture in Île de Ré, an Island of the West Coast of France, to decorate his family country home.  The rusticity found in the unspoiled island is interpreted in the design details of the house from the understated facade with its simple main door to the original white painted panels throughout inside the home.  The main red doors Liaigre saw in his trip to Nantucket inspired the touches of red dotting around the house.  “This is a simple home for a fisherman, and that is reflected in the decoration”  Christian Liaigre

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29May

A 480sf Beach Bungalow All California Style Only Cozier

After Memorial Day weekend it is ”officially” summer.  White clothes are allowed, and sunscreens are but an everyday essential.  While all that is great, the most exciting part of the summer is spending time away at our favorite summer destinations where everyone smells like sunscreen.  When I saw this SoCal beach bungalow with a very California cozy style, my first thought was how great it would be to own a beach cottage where to spend the long summer weekends.  As this charming 480 SF bungalow proves, charm and coziness have nothing to do with space, so it won’t need to be that big as long as it has plenty of windows where light can come in, cozy outdoor spaces and a light palette indoor.

Beach bungalow, California style Living room

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07May

This Week’s Sale is All Palm Beach Chic Decorating Style

I’m confident that Interior Designer Celerie Kemble, whose prevailing style is Palm Beach Chic, would approve all these pieces on sale this week.  Think trellis either as wallpaper or as an actual wood framework, bold patterned upholstery, bright colorful fabrics, plaster chandeliers, rattan and some whimsical accessories that is the Palm Beach Chic style I’m referring to.  Even though not all interiors look the same in Palm Beach, take this more formal home designed by David Kleinberg as an example, the style most people are familiar with is the one that is bold and daring.  Often the color turquoise is combined with a bright green or orange.  Lots of sea elements as accessories, seagrass wallpaper or simply white walls make a great background to all these diverse elements to mingle together.

”Like  nautical style, its Northeastern counterpart, Palm Beach style embraces all aspects of sea life—but with a distinctly tropical spin. Shells and coral are often-spotted elements, but palm fronds and the stately peacock chair, which is making a major comeback since its Swinging ’60s heyday, take the look to a more exotic place”  One King Lane.  A bold and bright interior may not be liked by everyone, but that is the beauty of diversity that we can all like and love.  Below, a few palm beach inspired pieces on sale…

An ottoman table that separates into stools is not only comfortable but also convenient, upholster it in a bold pattern fabric and keep the sofa in one color.  A side lamp table with a chinois undertone which would look great with a blue and white lamp.  A blue and white pillow because it’s a beach house and a bed made of a combination of a woven natural material and wood.

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