Italian Renaissance

Aurora Award Winner

Our client, a successful European entrepreneur seeking to build a home in the States after expanding his business here, came to us with unique requirements. He wanted his home to replicate the purest order of Italian Renaissance design, yet be based on a floorplan of interlocking octagons--an American trend he had seen in numerous model homes he had toured. In European tradition, the kitchen was to be separate and shut apart from the rest of the home, although it was coaxed open to the family room via a small opening.

The client's design request was accomplished by gathering octagonal rooms to the rear and rectangular rooms to the front, expressing only a vestigial octagon corner in the front at the stair, and only a rectangular master bedroom at the rear. Transition between the 6,430 square foot home's two "faces" is by way of the columned square fountain set at 45 degrees to the foyer.

Builder: Peatross & Hueber
Interior Design: Architectural Artworks
Landscape Architect: Redmon Design
Photography: Phil Eschbach