WindermereEstate
Nothing in it
is decorative.
Everything is
deliberate.
Set on a low rise above the Butler Chain, the estate is organised as three limestone pavilions around a single lap pool. The water is the datum: every floor, sill and coping stone is set in relation to its surface.
One line of water,
seventy feet long,
perfectly still.
The pool is not a feature. It is the instrument the house is tuned to. The pavilions are placed so that the water carries the evening light into the great room and the morning light into the primary suite.
Three pavilions,
one material.
Living, sleeping and guest pavilions are clad in the same honed Portuguese limestone inside and out, so that the walls read as one continuous surface interrupted only by white oak and glass. The stone was quarried from a single bed to keep the veining consistent across eight thousand square feet.
“Twenty-five years from now, it should still feel right. That is the standard we built this house to.”
04New Smyrna
New Smyrna
Coastal
House
