Toscana on the Bay, Casey Key, Florida
With an aristocratic romance rekindling Italy’s 18th-century Tuscan palazzos, Casey Key’s Toscana on the Bay captures the heart. The newly minted masterpiece—a happy marriage of beamed ceilings, hand-carved wooden doors, stone columns and fireplaces, and floors paved in stone and…
Naples, Florida
Orchestrated to showcase 180 feet of azure beach in gated Bay Colony’s On the Strand, the towering dreamworld in Naples is one of Florida’s trophy estates. Yet its splendorous presence beguiles, for its sole purpose in life is to promote…
Laurene-Rutledge House, Charleston, South Carolina
An album filled with memories, the distinguished Laurens-Rutledge House is a vintage American treasure. Built in 1760 by James Laurens, the Georgian double house subsequently became the home of Edward Rutledge, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and later…
The Wilcox, Aiken, South Carolina
On a peaceful, tree-lined street in the South Carolina town of Aiken, amid pristine cottages and sprawling mansions in what is referred to as horse country and revered as one of the most prestigious polo capitals of the world, The…
Columbia Place, Savannah, Georgia
Inside the doors, the comforting haven cocoons you in flowing, open, high-ceilinged rooms adorned with warm firesides, Brazilian cherry floors, and elegant kitchen and bath luxuries. But outside Columbia Place, a walk away, beckon secret gardens, ornate wrought iron-fenced mansions,…
Albemarle, Virginia
The 4th fairway of Virginia’s beautiful Keswick Country Club is a perfect foil for the handsome two-story haven in gated Keswick Estates. Overlooking the fairway from over two acres, the residence, built in 1995, holds at its heart a soaring…
Mulberry, Middleburg, Virginia
Virginia’s Mulberry delights all who come. The Georgian manor presides over a Southern pastorale of 75 acres with sweeping views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Its soaring portico opens to a double-story foyer with curved staircase, marble floor, and Austrian…
Sugarloaf, Laguna Beach, California
Sugarloaf, the Craftsman kingdom inspired by the five-star Lodge at Torrey Pines—and known by some as Laguna’s most fabled estate—is a California treasure. Commanding two prized acres jutting out to a private white-sand beach and the Pacific Ocean, it stages…
Wayne Gretzky’s California Palace, Sherwood, California
When it came time for one of the world’s most beloved sports icons to seek solitude in Southern California, he settled on six magical acres of knolltop enchantment overlooking the prestigious Sherwood Country Club. Celebrating a nonstop panorama of fairways,…
Beverly Hills, California
Monumental yet manageable, powerful yet intimate, the French limestone masterpiece between the Beverly Hills Hotel and Rodeo Drive crowns a knoll of magical formal gardens. Distinguished by twelve elegant fireplaces, the mansion’s spectacular centerpiece is a circular skylit foyer around…
Santa Ynez Valley, California
After living in some of the world’s dreamiest settings, the couple longed to return to California. They created a kingdom on 23 oak-clad acres atop the most majestic hilltop in the Santa Ynez Valley—with a celebrity list that has included…
Scottsdale, Arizona
Anticipation builds when you first glimpse the nearly hidden Tuscan hideaway, its 11,477-square-foot form silhouetted on five magical acres of Scottsdale desert. A porte cochere introduces the soaring foyer. Beyond, a living room with cantera fireplace frames the panorama that…
Dallas, Texas
Already the recipient of multiple design awards, the recently minted Dallas castle in gated Glen Abbey nestles into graceful gardens orchestrated by Harold Leidner. Overlooking a lake and waterfalls past poolside terraces, the entertainment rooms and beautiful bedrooms revel in…
Fort Worth, Texas
In a rolling emerald-green pastorale between Fort Worth and Dallas, gates and a guardhouse open to a magnificent Old World villa conceived by one of America’s foremost entrepreneurs as his own private country club. Ingeniously orchestrated in the Italian style…
Houston, Texas
Amid venerable trees and graceful poolside gardens blessed with a gazebo and tennis court, the magnificent Georgian family home personifies the prestige and tradition that have long distinguished Houston’s River Oaks. Guests enter flowing formal rooms with high ceilings, crown…
Austin, Texas
From sunrise until sunset and deep into the starry Texas night, the soaring windows and poolside terrace drink in dramatic views of downtown Austin. The house, with four living areas, was clearly created to captivate family and friends in its…
Berman Buckskin Ranch, Telluride, Colorado
Berman Buckskin Ranch, a picture-postcard 16-mile drive from the historic heart of internationally renowned Telluride, is where the traditions of the Old West meet up with the comforts of the modern day. Arrayed across the 1,492 spectacular acres are two…
Las Vegas, Nevada
An Arabian Nights oasis in the Nevada desert, the soaring Mediterranean mansion in Spanish Hills eloquently expresses the palmy luxuriance of the tony Las Vegas enclave. Eleven resplendent rooms echo with high-voltage electricity the glamour and excitement of the minutes-away…
The Beech Tree House, Woodinville, Washington
The Beech Tree House is an Edenic ambrosia of mellifluous lakefront gardens and radiant rooms drenched in lighthearted romance. Arrayed across nearly two acres with 130 feet beside the water just to the north of Bellevue, the Washington estate delights…
Seattle, Washington
Crowned by a broad gambrel roof with flaring eaves under which paired shuttered windows look out on three acres of trellised fairy-tale gardens laden with fruit trees, the 1910 Dutch Colonial has become a welcoming gathering place in Seattle’s gated…
Black Oaks Estate, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Lake Tahoe’s majestic Black Oaks Estate toasts the beauty of the Sierra with the enchantment of noble Tudor architecture enveloped in storybook poolside gardens. From the soaring entrance stairhall and great room to the banquet room and gourmet kitchen—with one…
Honolulu, Hawaii
Bedazzling views of the Pacific simply take your breath away from the magnificent gated oceanfront oasis at Diamond Head. The Hawaiian drama reaches a zenith in a sweeping poolside living room and lanais that frame to perfection one of the…
North Kohala, Big Island, Hawaii
The dream of the visionary was to create a tropical perch to crown the dramatic cliffs of Honomakau on the Big Island, a spectacular 21-acre Shangri-La from which to savor the sunsets across the ocean to Maui along 2,400 feet…
Temenos, Anguilla
Temenos Anguilla is truly what the ancient Greek word temenos suggests: a place of renewal, a return to one’s true self, a sanctuary. But St. Regis is much more. The tantalizing private enclave becomes your very own paradise of pleasure.…
Villa Azul, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Noted California architect Ed Giddings built several homes in Puerto Vallarta over two decades. Of the handful that remain, Villa Azul is the glowing jewel, regarded as an architectural marvel. And for good reason. Into a jungle-covered hillside contiguous to…