Villa Delphi

The confident typology of a grand Italian villa was adopted as a collection of timeless cultural influences, reflecting the owner’s culturally diverse background. Venetian in spirit, this 20,000 square foot home is enlivened with a mix of stately elements from around the world including zellige tile from Morocco, terracotta oil jars from Haiti and salvaged architectural elements from France. Together with terracotta brick flooring and Pecky cypress wood ceilings in the library, the house became a unifying canvas on which the vernacular influences evoke a great splendor. The most notable feature of this house is the award winning detached spa, which captures classical symmetry and the “Giottoesque dome” that was prominent in Roman antiquity.