Still, sophistication was never sacrificed. The floors are elegant French white oak and limestone, and the restrained modern art is by the likes of Robert Motherwell and Andy Warhol. The decorators took a playful route in the master bath, selecting four color lots of marble and then laying them in a random pattern, what Carson calls a "non-checkerboard checkerboard." The walls throughout the house are hand-troweled plaster, emphasis on the "hand." "Those old buildings in Provence aren't perfect," White says, and it was those tiny imperfections he was after. "I would go to the guys doing the work and say, 'I want to see your hands.' "
The table and cabinet in the dining room are custom made, the chairs are by Berkshire Home & Antiques, and the 18th-century Italian chandelier is from Lucca Antiques.
The wife loves to cook for her big family, and the team warmed up the large kitchen with a buttery limestone wall and a ceiling covered in reclaimed barn wood. The island is topped with an enormous slab of Calacatta marble. The client says she had to let go of her fear of staining it and come to terms with the fact that "these are old materials out of the earth. I don't think we should be too worried about it."
The landscaping reflects the interior's palette, with olive trees, lavender, and succulents. "It's soothing, like the inside," says the client.
In the master bedroom, the headboard is custom made, the linens are by Frette, and the 17th-century bench is Swedish, as are the circa-1880 bedside tables; the armchair is by Holly Hunt, and the rug is by Country Swedish.
Bunk Room
Concerned that the flip side of having a lot of big windows to grab the views would mean a hot, glary interior, White designed two shady spots. Outside the master bedroom, a trellis of woven willow branches filters the light into graceful shadows. A pergola with retractable canvas panels softens the sun pouring into the living room. "When the wind is moving, you get a slight clattering of canvas and all the fittings," White says. "It sounds like you're on a sailboat."
The bunk room's beds and cabinetry are custom made, and the oak floors are by Exquisite Surfaces.
Dining Terrace
The clients are so happy with the outcome that the wife is even nostalgic for the weekly design meetings. It's no wonder that the once-obstructionist neighbors now leave notes telling the couple theirs is the most beautiful house around. The most important critics are on board, too: Awed by the setting, one granddaughter asked if it was even legal to live there. "I wonder sometimes if it is," admits her grandmother.
Armchairs by Gloster surround a wrought-iron table by C.J. Peters on the dining terrace; the pergola is made of iron and willow-branch panels.
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