Fairfax

Overview

A striking, modern exterior sets the stage for interiors featuring dramatic marble and warm brass details within, with soft pink tones woven throughout for an unexpected touch of femininity.

Home Gallery

Rectangular pool and lawn with white daybeds under coral fringed umbrellas

Rear elevation seen through live oak branches, tall steel window wall above clipped hedges

Motor court and concrete drive leading to the recessed limestone entry portal

Stucco chimney mass rising beside a projecting steel-framed bay window

Side garden of clipped lawn between stucco walls, stone steps to a glass door

Narrow lawn passage between white garden walls, steel gate under magnolias

Upper-storey steel bay window above a stone stair and boxwood planting

Oversized white oak pivot door with a long brass pull, open onto the hall

Entry hall with patterned marble mosaic floor, oval mirror over a slim brass console

Living room with a black marble fireplace under a red abstract canvas, fluted wall panels

Seating grouped at the black marble hearth, glass coffee table on a pale wool rug

Corner of the living room with olive velvet ottomans and a brass-based glass table

Great room with a book-matched marble fireplace wall, brass chandelier and grand piano

Pair of curved velvet chairs on brass bases before a full-height steel grid window

Alabaster console and shaped bronze mirror in a white oak-floored vestibule

Floating oak stair treads with a glass balustrade and slim brass handrail

Open stair with glass rail beside a steel window wall onto the oaks

Open-riser stair above a built-in blue banquette, brass and glass balustrade

Glass-walled wine room with steel cable racking, lounge chair in the room beyond

Kitchen with a marble waterfall island, four stools and a brass linear pendant

Marble island seating four under brass pendants, steel windows onto the trees

Range wall in book-matched marble with brass fittings above oak base cabinets

Brass-framed glass china cabinet beside the marble island in the kitchen

Scullery pantry with a brass library ladder, marble slab wall and mosaic tile floor

Curved cream sofa on a round rug beneath the open stair, fluted glass wall behind

Study with a scenic grisaille mural, sculptural black desk and blush leather chair

Gallery passage with a travertine console and dark floral canvas, dining room beyond

Large blush canvas above a walnut bar counter with upholstered stools

Dining room with a black table, brass chandelier and gilt mirror over the sideboard

Dining table for eight facing a full-height steel window, brass chandelier overhead

Curved banquette in the corner window bay beside the marble kitchen island

Long dark dining table under a brass fixture, open to the piano room beyond

Gilt mirror above a gold-fronted credenza at the end of the dining table

Powder room with a floating marble sink in a white oak niche, twin glass pendants

Hand-painted chinoiserie walls above a black marble basin in the powder room

Hallway past a black marble hearth looking into the mural-papered study

Steel-framed door open to the study, black marble fireplace edge in the foreground

Oak pocket door sliding past marble to reveal the chinoiserie powder room

Bar with brass shelving and a fluted counter, dining room visible down the hall

Game room with a built-in oak media wall, low sectional and billiards table

Billiards room under the open stair, blue bolster banquette and grey bar cabinetry

Blush bar with brass-framed mirrored shelving, fluted counter and pink stools

Long white oak corridor with a curved boucle bench beneath a steel window

Panelled double doors closing the end of the hall, boucle bench along the wall

Marble-lined passage framing a round table and hydrangeas at the far window

Marble gallery hall with a round table, shearling stool and brass pendant

Coral branch sculpture on the oak wall of the marble-floored gallery

Oak door swung open to a vestibule with a shaped mirror over a brass-banded console

Dressing vanity with brass-framed cabinets, mirrored walls and a swivel stool

Primary bedroom in blush with a channelled headboard and brass-based bench

Bedroom with curved brass shelving, boucle ottoman and an upholstered platform bed

Bath vanity in fluted marble with a brass-framed mirror and twin sconces

Dressing room with glass-front cabinets, curved blush sofa and a rosy glass chandelier

Glass-front handbag cabinets with brass ring pulls in the dressing room

Floor-to-ceiling shoe shelving reached by a brass rolling library ladder

Oak dressing room with a marble-topped island and lit display shelving

Roof terrace at the Fairfax house, cedar-clad wall under a standing-seam metal roof

Sunken fire pit ringed by white lounge chairs on the lawn beside the pool

Poolside daybeds under scalloped coral umbrellas along a clipped hedge

Covered loggia with a deep sectional and ceiling fan, pool and umbrellas beyond

Outdoor dining table under a limed cedar ceiling beside the open exterior stair

Twin white daybeds set on the lawn under scalloped coral umbrellas

Looking down over the pool, lawn and fire pit toward the outdoor kitchen

Corner of the turquoise pool meeting the clipped edge of the lawn

Front elevation of the Fairfax residence, white stucco and limestone with black steel windows

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