Bay Point

From the street, the composition reads as a series of planes rather than a single mass. Two long marble walls anchor the front, their surfaces catching the raking light, while a dark stone volume and a slender bronze-toned beam cut across the elevation at the upper level. That beam carries the bridge linking the two wings of the second floor, and beneath it the architecture opens into a planted entry court, a patio framed overhead by the bridge and centered on a single tree. The two garages face each other across the motor court, their frosted panels turned away from the street so that cars never define the façade.

A marble plane runs through the house from front to back, drawing a clear line between the public rooms and the private ones. The social rooms rise to a ceiling one and a half stories high, and a band of clerestory windows above the garden-facing openings pulls daylight deep into the plan. Polished white stone floors carry that light across the room and into the dining area beyond.

The staircase is where the house reveals its personality. A continuous white ribbon spirals up from the stone floor, its timber treads tucked inside the curve and traced by a line of concealed light that follows the wall to the upper landing. Folded into the same sculptural form is a slide for the family’s children, turning the most formal gesture in the house into its most playful. Because the stair also wraps the social rooms, its curve stays in view wherever you sit.

At the rear, the house opens fully to the garden. The white slab of the upper floor projects over a covered terrace, sheltering an outdoor kitchen and dining area that step directly onto a timber deck. Stone-clad walls and a single dark vertical element give the elevation its rhythm, while a long pool runs parallel to the house, doubling the façade in its surface. Beyond, a lawn and the site’s mature oaks and palms wrap the house in shade, and the architecture settles quietly into its garden.