This remodel of an English Country house built in the 1930s was done as a modern interpretation of the work of C.F.A.Voysey, Eyre and their contemporaries. An insensitively placed porte-cochere was removed to allow for a new gabled facade that announces the entry. We added a new wing to reinforce the pool axis and expand the family rooms and master suite. Interior moldings, fireplaces and details, redesigned from classical sources, embellish the formal rooms and articulate the interior.
The great Colonial Revival homes built around Atlanta in the early 20th century by Neel Reid and James Means inspired this residence for a young family. Staying true to this style, we incorporated white brick walls, a pedimented entry, stone trimwork and bold cornices. Traditional elements were adapted to California’s climate—French doors replaced windows at terraces and loggias. Typical of Colonial homes, the main hall acts as a focal point and provides access to the public and private rooms flanking either side.
An interpretation of the royal chateaux—Chateau de Maisons, Courances and Anet—built as country estates around the Loire Valley and Ile de France in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Steeply pitched roofs, grand dormers and tall chimneys plus classical columns and detailing that originated in Italy and were adapted to French taste highlight the exterior. An expansive loggia, adapted from the covered shopping arcades in Paris, runs the length of the rear facade and serves as an outdoor living and entertaining area. The French garden pavilion is a transition between the formal gardens and the tennis court, offering views of both. Interiors are classical with finishes of stuc pierre walls, antique stone floors and boiserie found in French chateaux.
This expansive hilltop estate is conceived as a Regency Revival house in the grand tradition of the work of John Russell Pope and David Adler. Facades of white brick and grey limestone are embellished with columns and pilasters inspired by The Temple of the Winds in Athens and popular during the Regency period. Interiors reflect the influence of 1920s and 1930s Colonial Revival houses with details blending Regency and Georgian motifs with streamlined Art Deco undertones.
Located just west of Shanghai, Rose Garden is a gated residential community developed by Greentown Group. At the center of the development, on an island surrounded by water, are the seven exclusive Rose Garden Villas. The architectural inspirations were the classical houses of Europe—18th-century French chateaux, Renaissance Italian villas and English Tudor manors. We designed five of the seven villas in a French style and two followed an Italianate theme.
This landmark 1925 Manhattan building by J. Edwin R. Carpenter was originally an apartment house before it was remodeled as a hotel. Our client, a real estate developer for whom we had designed a house in Los Angeles, purchased the hotel for conversion to a condominium. We created a new Park Avenue entry and lobby for the apartments while maintaining the original lobby space on East 65th Street for a restaurant. Working with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, we were able to design a new Park Avenue apartment entry and lobby that connects to the restored elevator lobby. Our new spaces, which were required to be distinct from the Italian pre-Renaissance elevator lobby design, were executed in the Georgian style—classical moldings, limestone walls, black and beige stone floors, raised-panel mahogany doors—found in many Upper East Side apartments that our client admired.
Floating alongside Maunaloa Bay, with panoramic views of Diamond Head, this Moroccan-inspired waterside estate cascades down four levels from an arrival pavilion and roof terrace to a private boat basin.
Drawing on the Moroccan and Orientalist aesthetic of such estates as Doris Duke’s Shangri-La, Villa Oasis and Majorelle (the Moroccan home and garden of Yves Saint Laurent) and the distinctive La Mamounia hotel in Marrakech, the estate’s architecture features arched pavilions and extensive use of plaster relief, tile and marble on the exterior and interiors, with expansive gardens and water features.
Located in the Los Angeles foothills, this house evokes the great French Riviera tradition of uniting the heritage of Parisian maisons with their formal massing and classical details, and the warm character of Provence, to create a modern Mediterranean villa for a young family. Walls of straw-colored plaster, golden French limestone trim, shuttered opening accents, and the classic Genoise eave and tile roof combine to bring the romance of Southern France to California.
This interpretation of a Japanese-inspired spa building provides a gym, massage, spa and furo bathing facility under the shade of two giant monkey pod trees above a waterfall that cascades down to the bay below.