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VILLA NURAYA​​​​​​​

VILLA NURAYA​​​​​​​
Some houses are so unlike anything we’ve seen before, so extraordinarily beautiful, that they could, with a forgivable amount of hyperbole, be called works of art.
The beauty starts at the entrance, naturally, but this is really a kind of hors d’oeuvre to the full-course interior. We walk inside from a garden to a garden, which is to say, the garden is also inside the house, on both sides as one walks through the main entrance. The delightful difficulty here is not knowing exactly where the garden ends and the interior begins, because we designed it true to our concept of warm-weather residential architecture: inside/outside design. One is never quite sure exactly which is which. We also designed it wide and long, so more rooms enjoy the views, and this is one of the key aspects of this symmetrical, largely transparent property.
This luxury home was designed for someone who loves both entertaining and simply being with family and friends. It was also designed for an art lover, somebody who can appreciate the immense effort and creativity that has gone into every detail of the house and everything in it.
This home was designed wide and long, so more rooms enjoy the views, and this is one of the key aspects of this symmetrical, largely transparent property.
There is an upper pool behind the long white wall over the lower pool: they are really one, given that the water from the top pool cascades down into the one below.
This home was designed wide and long, so more rooms enjoy the views, and this is one of the key aspects of this symmetrical, largely transparent property.
The lounge has art everywhere - on the walls, hanging from the ceiling, on the floor, even in the pieces of furniture themselves. In the centre is a beautiful image by Tim Tadder from his latest collection ”Black is a Colour
Another view of the lounge - note the giraffe sculpture on the left
View across the pool, terrace and lounge.
In the dining room he huge rock in the garden becomes an integral part of an overall muted design, the gorilla providing the splash of colour.
Dining room with beautiful panel of four pieces of onyx mounted together
The other view of the dining room showing a round painting that has been illuminated to work as a soft light source
The family lounge with kitchen behind
View from kitchen towards family lounge
The family living space with kitchen, dining, lounge and terrace
The top-end kitchen, which is a single, elegant entity in grained onyx
VILLA NURAYA​​​​​​​
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