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The Other Waterfront
You’re thinking of moving to Sarasota and your dream is something on the water. You feel it would be good for your soul, the way that people do. The beach would be best, with its constant reminder of the infinity of the universe. But some nice bay would be OK, too, with all the birds [...]
Read More >>The Luxury Home
By Ilene Denton ON THE HOMEFRONT Downtown Sarasota advocates are cheering the return of the construction crane—which, in the not-so-distant go-go years, was the unofficial city bird—as three very different downtown residential projects are ready to fly off the drawing board. “The true legacy of the last boom is we built a better downtown,” [...]
Read More >>The Luxury Home: Our Design Roller Coaster
Having your house redone as a Designer Showcase is scary, tumultuous—and thrilling. Ever jump when you hear yourself say something and think, “Who just said that?” That’s what happened when my husband, David, and I dashed through the Jewels on the Bay Showhouse at the Powel Crosley Estate on a bitter-cold Sunday morning in [...]
Read More >>Home of The Month: January 2013
Bachelor Pad Suave and sophisticated, this Sandy Hook compound defines Sarasota style. This is a house Frank Sinatra would love. It has a rich bachelor chic, perfect for entertaining a crowd around the 16-by-44-foot pool—or for more intimate entertaining in the many elegant nooks and cubbyholes inside. And when it comes time to scramble up [...]
Read More >>Top of The Market: January 2013
A 8,433-square-foot Harbor Acres home that sold for $7.5 million was not only the highest-priced residential sale in October, it was the highest of 2012 to that date. The four-bedroom, two-story Mediterranean-style home at 1486 Hillview St., built in 2008, sits on 100 feet of bayfront and boasts several beautiful mature oak trees. It was [...]
Read More >>Neighborhood Watch: January 2013
Surprise, it’s Whitaker’s Landing. The tiny gated neighborhood of Whitaker’s Landing, set on Sarasota Bay just north of Sarasota Bay Club and Whitaker Gateway Park, is “one of those hidden places that people don’t know exists,” says Toi Estes of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty. Development started in 1990. With just seven constructed homes and four [...]
Read More >>Wish We Were Here
A design-savvy couple creates a sophisticated guesthouse for friends and family. Wayne and Mindy Rollins—who bought a 2.8-acre slice of Longboat Key paradise a few years ago with the intent of transforming the existing 1960s-era residence into their “grow-old home”—are such good hosts, they rebuilt the beachfront guesthouse first. The Rollins are a busy young [...]
Read More >>Insider: Home of the Month – A Penthouse At The Plaza
Our Real Estate Junkie’s home of the month. Other downtown buildings may be near the center of the action, but the Plaza at Five Points is the center. You look down from your balcony at the opera, the restaurants on Main Street, Whole Foods, a pretty little park and so many sidewalk cafes—from gourmet to [...]
Read More >>Real Estate Junkie: The Way We Were
Our Real Estate Junkie’s home of the month. No other home epitomizes the style of Old Sarasota as well as this gated mansion set on two acres of mainland waterfront near Siesta Key. Owned by several prominent families over the years, including the Robartses and the late Paulette Crabtree Schindler Blair, it was designed back [...]
Read More >>Art Stars
An important art collection shines in an opulent Art Deco setting. When a passion for art imbues your client’s life, the interior design mandate is clear: Color and pattern exist purely to enhance the beauty and importance of a blue-chip collection. That was the principle Anne Folsom Smith of Anne Folsom Smith Interior Design followed [...]
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