WORLD CLASS OCEAN TO INTRACOASTAL ESTATE  

Utterly unique and lyrically compelling, this sublime residence reigns in a tropical haven sweeping from the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal Waterway, contrasting its pure white forms in profound harmony with verdant foliage and cerulean water and sky. This tour de force featured in Architectural Digest (May, 2005) was designed by internationally renowned Legoretta + Legoretta with interiors by Chicago-based Gregga Jordan Smieszny, complemented by masterful layered gardens by landscape architect Fernando Caruncho.

Understated luxury pervades the serenely elegant living environment, an inspired revelation of space, light, and form that balances grace and noblesse, boldness and restraint, rich complexity and spare refinement. An effortless flow is unified by large slabs of warm sand-hued French limestone, ivory-toned plaster walls, and white oak millwork in a textural cerused finish evoking the 1920’s work of legendary Parisian designer Jean Michel Frank. Artfully placed windows illumine a series of atrium-like spaces contemplating vistas of the sea, and opposite, the exquisite geometric pool and sculpted landscape. There is also a full-service yacht dock, just four properties in from the inlet. For the passionate connoisseur of style, this is a visually stunning yet eminently livable residence in paradisiacal seaside beauty.

Location
Hillsboro Mile, Hillsboro Beach, Florida. Prestigious Hillsboro Beach offers island-like tranquility only minutes from Boca Raton’s world-class attractions and private executive airport.

Property: This alluring 2.8±-acre Hillsboro Beach estate resides between 232± feet of coveted Atlantic beachfront and 250± feet on the Intracoastal with deepwater dock. A long chiseled slate drive arrives at the formal entry. Edging the façade, the infinity pool is, itself a work of art, spilling into a lap lane culminating by an open-air pavilion with summer kitchen and lower-level bedroom suite. Layered compositions of lawns and gardens highlight splendid amphitheater-like tiers circling around a reflecting pool.

Residence
An inventive aesthetic hallmarks this sprawling residence providing 19,296± square feet of living space with 7 bedrooms, 7 full and 3 half baths, 3 elevators, plus a 9-bay subterranean garage. The striking interior and outdoor lighting was designed by New York-based Fisher Marantz Stone.

Main Level: A gridded window wall dominates the 2-story limestone foyer facing a tranquil reflecting pool. Off a barrel-vaulted, windowed gallery, the elegant glass-walled salon flows to an oceanfront terrace. Pocket doors enter the stunning dining room soaring to a 30-foot-high skylit ceiling. Angled over the pool, the fireplaced lounge adds dramatic contrast with deeply-hued cabinetry and polished Absolute Black granite flooring. The sleekly styled cook’s kitchen with cerused oak cabinetry, black granite counters, and stainless steel appliances continues to an oceanfront morning room, bar, and family room with fireplace. Off a windowed galleria are 4 bedroom suites, 3 opening to an oceanfront loggia. The baths are finished in sand-blasted glass tile, some also with moderne double pedestal sinks. The gym adjoins a restorative massage room, steam room, sauna, and spa bath.

Upper level: The 7-room grand master suite flows over this entire level in the ultimate privacy and comfort. Spanned by a spectacular glass-railed oceanfront terrace, the sleeping quarters are accompanied by customized his-and-her wardrobe rooms adjacent to exquisite spa-like baths, fitted with lacquered and wenge cabinetry, one with therapeutic tub plus a walled terrace with outdoor shower. The private office opens onto a serene Zen-like walled garden. Overlooking the pool, another separate office, served by its own staircase, completes this peerless Hillsboro Beach residence.