The Art of Living With and Within Art

Located on the heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, this award-winning property on Hamilton Island is at the heart of Australia’s playground for the global elite.

A stunning oceanside property, Solis was designed by leading international architect Renato D'Ettorre. Born in Italy, D’Ettore moved to Australia with his family in the 1960s. Influenced by a period spent studying architectural sites around the Mediterranean, D’Ettore’s architecture draws inspiration from past masters and civilizations and attempts to capture the present day with a timelessness that will last generations.

Solis is situated on one of 74 tropical islands internationally recognized as a paradise for boaters, divers and golfers. Featuring stunning views stretching across the Coral Sea, the property blends the internal and external with easy access to pools, courtyards and terraces. The house is the perfect remedy for those who seek both comfortable everyday living, as well as the space to accommodate effortless entertaining.

The main living/dining space features furnishings and textiles in all the shades of a Hamilton Island sunset. The tactile qualities — concrete, stone, block work and glass — give one an irresistible urge to experience the house barefoot while enjoying the feel of each respective smooth surface. Upper living areas are light-filled and airy, while lower reaches of the house are more intimate — cool bedroom chambers, surrounded by terraces, frame magnificent ocean views and the surrounding green of nature.

If a single home could incorporate all the seductive charms of Miami Beach living, this one would be it.

This striking modern residence built in 2013 is the product of architect Ralph Choeff and builder Todd Glaser. Choeff, of architecture firm Choeff, Levy, Fischman, has had a career that spans a vast spectrum of projects, from residential homes to shopping plazas. Known for championing a modern aesthetic executed through a collaborative workflow, the firm has won many awards and is perhaps best known for designing the home of baseball legend Alexander Rodriguez.

Glaser’s career has similarly been defined by working in the spotlight. The Miami Beach native has been involved in some of the city’s most recognizable buildings, including the Jackie Gleason Theater and the Miami International Airport. He’s also worked on residential projects for such stars as Billy Joel and film director Michael Bay.

This Lake Avenue house embellished the resume for both architecture auteurs. It includes 150-plus feet of direct waterfront and a private dock that can accommodate a yacht more than 100 feet long. Located in the Sunset Islands, overlooking world-renowned South Beach, it’s a showcase of stunning ground-level reflection pools, light-filled interiors and sundecks. The estate offers the ideal floor plan: swimming pool, summer kitchen, bedrooms with bath en suite, corner master bedroom with dual full bathrooms, gourmet kitchen with dual walk-in freezers and dumbwaiter, two-bedroom attached cottage, maid’s quarters and more.

On the exquisite Auckland waterfront, this luxury home sits on the world’s stage. Ponting Fitzgerald's brief was for timeless, enduring elegance and the result is an extraordinary experience connecting the land to the water through light and texture.

Since its founding by David Ponting in 1998, Ponting Fitzgerald has emerged as one of New Zealand’s most innovative architect firms. Matthew Fitzgerald was made partner in 2009, adding a fresh outlook and increased global footprint through his base in Colorado. The firm’s philosophy is driven by an aspiration to achieve timeless originality: “Through listening and reflecting we craft unique homes with heart, each an expression of memories, dreams and achievement.”

This majestic concrete and cedar home delivers on all counts. At once inspiring and sophisticated, it has been chosen for many special events and enjoyed by many high-profile guests.

A mere five-minute drive to central city, with recreation reserves a stroll away, this is premier real estate. With concrete walls like a modern-day castle, Westmere House’s warmth is generated from the northwest and an all-day sun for a relaxing, waterfront ambience that opens to a full riverside panorama. With a changing seascape, the tides transition you from a scene of native Pohutukawa trees to, hours later, the picturesque beauty of the uncovered landscape of Meola Reef.

This highly coveted penthouse sits atop one of San Diego’s most iconic addresses: 3200 Sixth Ave. Initially known as The Colonel Irving Salomon / Henry Hester apartments, it’s an historically designated site named in tribute to its architect, Henry Hester.

The building is key in the legacy of Hester, who emerged as a significant local architect in the 1950s and ’60s. Hester added warmth to the emerging movement of modernism, helping it to achieve acceptance from initially hesitant West Coasters. Over his career, Hester accrued numerous national awards and was published in 30 architectural magazines and three hardcover books. Noted for his adventurous hobbies, including Formula One car racing, motorcycling and sailing, he remains an icon in an enduringly adored period of American architecture.

Built in 1958, the penthouse today commands the entire top floor and overlooks Balboa Park. Stunningly renovated with a purposeful blend of materials in 2006 , the property imbues the utilitarian ideals of modernism with the comfort of human authenticity. Nearly 2,000 square feet of terrace areas integrate indoor and outdoor space, while floor-to-ceiling windows frame park and city views.

Designed and crafted to nourish the sublime duality that exists between the art of living and living with art, this Santa Fe home epitomizes the intersection of the natural with the modern.

Renowned New York City architect Richard Gluckman designed the property so that it could house exquisite contemporary artworks amid the natural beauty of Santa Fe’s historic Big Tesuque Canyon. Gluckman has long “been known as the artists’ architect,” as The New York Times put it in 2004, designing gallery spaces such as The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and Sotheby’s in New York, as well as studios for contemporary artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Chuck Close and Richard Serra. Recognized for a minimalist, art-driven approach, Gluckman, along with partner David Mayner, has won a multitude of architecture awards, including the National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in 2005.

This property more than upholds Gluckman’s longstanding reputation. Completed August 2016, it balances and embodies the sumptuousness of flawless simplicity, incredible spaces and exquisite attention to detail, all perfectly sited in one of Santa Fe’s most sought-after areas. With a three-door heated garage, the property includes three lush, irrigated acres that border the Santa Fe National Forest. Signatures of Gluckman are present throughout the home that combines the highest-quality finishes and art-welcoming interiors with the inspired delineation of spare exterior lines. An exquisite 18'x 50' lap pool, mature hardwoods and an orchard provide the refined accents that meld a sense of the modern with the timeless.