Teal waters lap white sand seashores simply outdoors this 6,000-square-foot ocean-front property located on two acres of Fiji’s northern shore throughout the spectacular lowland peninsula of Vomo Island. Aptly named Reef Home, the residence offers world class entry to waves and an architectural viewport to border breathtaking vistas. However to understand such a calm-inducing area required assembling a worldwide staff in an effort as grand as its scale.
The household for whom the house was constructed introduced collectively expertise from disparate ends of the earth together with Canadian-based agency Structure Constructing Tradition, New Zealand-based panorama architects Wraight + Associates LTD, San Francisco-based Lindsay Gerber Interiors, and an Australian lighting designer – amongst others. Regardless of COVID delays and the bodily distance between all events concerned, the collaboration proved to be synergistic as evidenced by the staff’s artistic options.
A pavilion system includes the compound with the principle construction devised by architect Mark Ritchie to function its coronary heart and lungs. This versatile dwelling and leisure area expands and contracts as desired with the place of huge sliding glass partitions to soak up salty, contemporary air whereas delineating between a proper indoor lounge and eating room off the kitchen. What’s extra, these two areas are separated by an open breezeway furnished as a shaded outside lounge. “When all the glass partitions are opened the impact is breathtaking” says inside designer Lindsay Gerber. “The rooms not solely mix collectively seamlessly, however they appear to soften into the black backside zero edge pool and ocean past.”
Extra programming saved near the core features a butler’s pantry, powder room, service rooms, altering space, sports activities gear room, the swimming pool positioned parallel to the home, patios, scorching tub, and in depth backyard whose tendrils prolong past the general public areas. Flanking either side of that central nucleus alongside the horizontal axis are three pavilions of a smaller scale – two on one aspect, which home 4 particular person bed room suites, and one on the opposite for a extra secluded main suite.
The challenge proposes a paradise cast from a productive dialogue between conventional Pacific kinds or expressions and modern architectural language. Roughness and spontaneity are balanced by class and restraint, respectively. An off-white limestone grounds the fabric palette in simplicity and unity whereas showcasing natural texture because it patinas with maturity over time. This heterogeneity additionally helps higher articulate the opposite finishes and furnishings chosen: blond coloured Victorian Ash wooden, charcoal porcelain pool tile, and the off-white painted plastered partitions, in addition to darkish home windows and fixtures, and the plush greens on premises.
Linens and wool complement exterior grade materials for easy motion from open air to indoors the place company could discover consolation in a wide range of handmade, artisan items. The monumental “Urchin” pendants suspended above the eating desk come from Coup D’Etat in San Francisco, from the place all of the built-in leather-based headboards additionally hail. The bed room pendants are blown glass from grasp glass designer Alison Berger. And the big picket eating, espresso, and console tables, in addition to bed room benches, are customized designs by Lindsay Gerber Interiors, which have been later manufactured by native artisans in Fiji. So too have been the material and customized pillows.
“The shapes we designed for the picket tables and casegoods all through have been easy in kind, however we requested them to make use of a refined hand scraping method that mimics the ripples on the ocean,” Gerber notes of nature’s affect echoed within the aesthetics. “It was a pleasure to work with them and we beloved showcasing their expertise and the gorgeous wooden.”
Images by Sean Fennessy.
