BEL AIR VILLA

BEL AIR \ CALIFORNIA

a view of the swimming pool and main house through the Mediterranean style pool cabana with archways and columns.

BEL AIR VILLA

BEL AIR \ CALIFORNIA

  • The architecture for this new Bel Air, California home was inspired by the villas of Northern Italy. The house rose on the site of the owner’s previous residence, but they wanted a new house where their now larger family could all gather and entertain. This new residence was built around an interior courtyard fashioned as a columned cloister with a central fountain. The architects created a graciously proportioned home suitable to the site which is an unusually flat property. The house unfolds along the central axis from the front entrance, through the cloister, living room and rear loggia and all the way to the pool house loggia.

    COLLABORATORS

    Ferguson & Shamamian Architects

    Madeline Stuart Associates

    Kovac Design Studio

    MG Partners Inc.

    PHOTOGRAPHY

    Lisa Romerein

    James Doyle

BEL AIR VILLA

BEL AIR \ CALIFORNIA

The architecture for this new Bel Air, California home was inspired by the villas of Northern Italy. The house rose on the site of the owner’s previous residence, but they wanted a new house where their now larger family could all gather and entertain. This new residence was built around an interior courtyard fashioned as a columned cloister with a central fountain. The architects created a graciously proportioned home suitable to the site which is an unusually flat property. The house unfolds along the central axis from the front entrance, through the cloister, living room and rear loggia and all the way to the pool house loggia.

 
dining terrace under a Mediterranean style pergola with the swimming pool and pool cabana in the background.
close-up of the archways and columns of the Meditteranean style pool cabana.
 
 
a view of the dining terrace and pergola with archways of glass doors to inside the house from the herb garden.
 
simple site plan of the herb garden and dining terrace.
 
close-up of Euphorbia or Mediterranean spurge.
close-up of Westringia or Coastal rosemary.
close-up of rose geranium.
close-up of French lavender.
 
 
an olive tree planted in gravel beside the dining terrace and pergola.
 
a side view of the dining terrace and pergola with the archways of glass doors to the interiors of the house.

 

 
 
a courtyard framed by Mediterranean style columns with an ornate water feature in the center.
 
 
 
a view from inside the house looking through glass doors to the olive tree and pool cabana in the background.

 

 
steps up to an ornate iron gates flanked by topiaries in terracotta pots mark the entrance to the courtyard with ornate water feature.
the rear terrace with a beautiful limestone table with decorative rod-iron chairs and a limestone water basin and copper spigot water feature.
a side view of the steps to the iron gate entrance of the courtyard flanked by boxwood globes and palm trees.
 
a broad symmetrical view of the swimming pool and Mediterranean style pool cabana behind the pool. an old stone bench sits at the front of the pool and decorative iron chaise lounges on both sides..