Ocean Home Magazine (Digital) October/November 2020

CELEBRATING ARCHITECTURE Last February, I had the honor of attending the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Florida Chapter’s Addison Mizner Awards in Palm Beach held at The Colony Hotel. What a spectacular event and venue. The Colony, a powder pink icon dating back to the 1940s, is old school luxury to the max. The event was sensational and a who’s who of the Florida design industry came out to celebrate the award winners. It was my first trip to this century-old vacation haven for the well-heeled. I loved touring Worth Avenue and seeing the historical architecture by Addison Mizner, the early-20th-century designer who left his artistic stamp on Palm Beach. His Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival–style interpretations can be seen all over South Florida. He was known as the “society…

Kaiya Beach Resort: Luxurious New Residences on Florida’s Gulf Coast One thing is certain about the up-and-coming Kaiya Beach Resort, tucked away off 30A on the Florida Panhandle and overlooking the Gulf of Mexico: It’s got a pedigree. Kaiya’s following in the New Urbanist footsteps of 15 planned Panhandle communities that came before it. The new luxury housing community will consist of 173 buildings, an inn, a restaurant, an infinity edge pool, and more, all slated for construction over the next five years. South Carolina’s Palmetto Bluff Resort and Residences Puts the Environment First Landscape drives lifestyle at Palmetto Bluff on South Carolina’s May River. The property developers know that their property’s real value lay not just in building homes, but in taking care of the riverfront, forest, and wildlife that inhabit it.…

J. MICHAEL WELTON As an architecture, art, and design writer, Welton’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Dwell magazine. He is architecture critic for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and is author of Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand (Routledge: 2015). He is also the editor and publisher of a digital design magazine at architectsandartisans.com. JANICE RANDALL ROHLF Janice Randall Rohlf is a Cape Cod, Massachusetts-based freelance writer and editor who was until recently the editorial director for 14 lifestyle brands at Lighthouse Media Solutions. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including New England Home, Art New England and Modern Luxury Interiors. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT oceanhomemag.com…

At 19 years old, architect and visionary Paul McClean, principal of McClean Design in Orange, California, became fascinated with bridges. “It’s funny how these little things happen,” says the Dublin, Ireland, native who attended The Dublin Institute of Technology. “I was visiting the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, and it’s one of those Brutalist, kind of concrete university campuses that they built in the 1960s and 1970s. I was walking along, and then suddenly almost out of nowhere, I was on this bridge that had basically been made of a metal grid material and you could see through it, [and it was leading into the Sainsbury Centre that Norman Foster designed] and you just literally felt like you were floating through the trees. I had such a rush…

“My client wanted a feminine space with lots of color and pattern, so it was right up my alley. We used a lot of vibrant fabrics throughout and created a super cheerful room filled with spectacular art that gave it a particularly personal spin.”—Schuyler Samperton, Schuyler Samperton Interior Design & Textiles FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT samperton.com PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE MANUFACTURERS, BY ALEXANDRE JARAS (PORTRAIT), BY LISA ROMEREIN (SCHUYLER SAMPERTON TEXTILES, NOAH DINING TABLE)…

FOR MORE PRIME FINDS, VISIT oceanhomemag.com PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE MANUFACTURERS, BY ELITIS PHOTO JF GATE (PAPER SCULPTURE COLLECTION), BY NICOLAS HERON (NAGOYA DESK), BY ZACK BENSON (LANUDA BAY TILE)…