Cielo Azul

Author: Roberta Landman

Issue: November, 2008, Page 139

Home to a grand piano, this groin-vaulted and cantera-columned arcade separates the formal dining and living rooms. Travertine and wood flooring is arranged in a treillage pattern.

Uniting the homey kitchen and breakfast room are large custom elliptical-shaped iron lighting fixtures, distressed hickory flooring, and seating adorned with oversized red-and-white-checked fabric. Draperies are hung floor to ceiling. Under the long oval table, the “child-proof” carpet is deep red in color.

A high beamed ceiling shelters the large fully equipped kitchen—or cucina, as the oval sign notes. Its Carrara marble-topped island provides ample space for preparing meals, and is a magnet for visiting children and grandchildren. Countertops are Absolute Black honed granite.

Grand in any sense of the word, the formal dining room is a showcase for fine architecture and fine furnishings. The lofty coffered ceiling is a work of art, with insets of intricately detailed plaster. Side chairs are espresso-color leather with nailhead trim, while host chairs, also dotted with nailheads, wear a floral tapestry. The long table is made of antique floor planks.

Under a trio of vintage French painted screens, the dining room’s 19th-century marble-topped buffet is from France.

Draped, and appointed as elegantly as if it were indoors, the outdoor living room pampers with cushy blue-and-white-striped seating, a carved cantera fireplace, fanciful iron lanterns, and bountiful accessories. On the marble-topped sofa-back table, a pair of tall iron votive holders is crowned with birds, and a stone bust wears a tasseled rope necklace.

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