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Architect: Robert Swatt FAIA, Miya
Muraki, Swatt Miers Architects
Interior designer: Nicole Vidalakis
Landscape designer: Mark Wheeler
Structural engineer: Yu Structural
Engineers
Builder: Lencioni Construction
Company, Inc
Pool builder: Pacific Pools Inc
Siding: African mahogany with
Butternut Sikkens Log and Siding finish
Doors and windows: Fleetwood USA;
Duratherm; GlasPro; Extraordinary Doors
Flooring: Mexican travertine from
Bedrosians; Claro walnut
Wall panelling: African mahogany
Paints and varnishes: Benjamin
Moore; Sikkens; Precision Coatings on
kitchen island
Lighting: Renaissance; Lightolier;
Cooper Lighting; Dreamscape Lighting;
Lithonia Lighting; Stonelyte; Juno
Lighting; Elemental Lighting; io lighting
Kitchen cabinetry: Quartered walnut
by Knotty Hole Woodworks
Benchtops and backsplash: Qortstone
solid quartz in Winter White
Bathtub: Victoria & Albert
Bathroom wall tiles: Mystic Grey
marble
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Above: Water flows over three sides
of the 22m-long infinity pool. From
a distance the glistening granite
sides appear to emerge from the
landscape.
Right: The owner’s professional
office is at the front of the house, yet
separate from the main entry.
Story by Colleen Hawkes
Photography by Russell Abraham

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Special features include the sculptural furniture
and two aluminium-coated mannequins from
the ’70s. Vidalakis says she took great care over
the choice of every piece of art, every product
and every surface finish.
“It was essential to ensure the material,
scale and design would work together to create
a sense of absolute serenity. There is a juxtaposition, between warm and cold, formal and
informal, fake and real. And the sculptures
reveal themselves as you move through the
house and the landscape.”
To enhance the circulation and the flow