The Renovation That Came Out Exactly the Way It Was Drawn
The pendants came first. Not chronologically, but visually. Walking into the open living space of this Jupiter home, it’s the pair of pleated cone fixtures hanging above the island that register first, their scale out of proportion with what you’d expect, their material unexpectedly light for forms that large. Then the rest of the room […]
An Italian Workshop With a West Palm Beach Address
The finishes in a serious South Florida residence are no longer bought. They are commissioned. Book-matched stone for the island, reeded paneling for the walls, metalwork shaped to the hood, a lighting plan drawn to the millimeter, every piece specified months before it reaches the site. And nearly all of it is made by hands […]
How a Boca Raton Condominium Reconciles Two Opposing Moods
Carolina Labinas had one instruction. Make it feel new. The condominium she was handed in a Boca Raton high-rise still wore the design language of the 1980s, and her clients wanted none of it. What she delivered gives no sign it was ever anything else. Her reimagining runs from the entrance into the private rooms […]
Warming a Modern House Without Losing Its Edge
The tray ceiling runs more than forty feet across the kitchen and great room. That is a lot of surface to get wrong. When Kelli Riggs and Perla Delacruz, co-founders of Interiors by Casa Mia, first walked this Palm Beach Gardens home, that ceiling was bare and white, the same as everything else. The potential […]
Treating Windows as Architecture Rather Than Components
Cornerstone Companies was built on a conviction most of the industry had decided not to hold. Windows and doors, in the conventional view, are components. They are items on a spec sheet, ordered after the architecture is resolved. Scott Bussard, who co-founded the company, saw it differently. The opening, the frame, the weight of the […]
The Waterfront Estate Where the Water Comes Last
The fire bowls at the entry were set before the plans were locked. So were the grades, the materials, and the sequence of spaces running from the street to the water. Matt Hudson, founder of Jupiter-based MHudson Design, was on the project alongside the architect and builder while those decisions were still in motion, and […]