This Palm Beach County mansion, by Smith and Moore architect Daniel Kahan and designer Andrew Howard, is filled with stones from around the world.
County tour de force would be no typical home—and its owners no typical patrons—arrived in the form of stone slabs. The clients would email their newly commissioned design team photo after photo of hefty slices of richly grained marble, travertine, and granite from Italy, Turkey, and beyond.
“We love stone,” says the husband, a commercial-real-estate investor. “I find it hard to believe anything can be more beautiful than book-matched marble. That led the way in almost every room, even the butler’s pantry,” where riotously veined slabs of purple-and-green Calacatta Borghese marble top the emerald-lacquered cabinets and climb the walls as tall backsplashes.
Perhaps the most dazzling realization of this ambition is the lounge and games room, in the adult-centric entertaining wing, where a monumental bar hand-carved in Italy from that single block of Breccia Capraia is a focal point. Sitting on a classic parquet floor, it all but glows under high coffered ceilings defined by warm-walnut beams, within walls clad in matching wood paneling.
The marble Ping-Pong table in the bar and games room is by Moniomi, and the Francesco Balzano lacquered console table is from an edition of 12.“It looks like a million dollars, but you can still play on it,” says Howard, emphasizing the layer of levity the table provides. “This space is just very approachable. It’s an adult paradise.”
The dining and great room, with A. Rudin chairs surrounding the twin round tables and artworks by Sandy Ostrau and Arnoldi .Consider, too, the grandly proportioned living and dining area. Here, in front of a mantel carved from another single block of marble, two 1950s armchairs by Gio Ponti and a pair of custom sofas upholstered in Scottish cashmere surround an expansive Art Deco–inspired coffee table whose horn-marquetry legs support a bleached-parchment top.
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