Big Island Living
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The Puerto Rican-born wife's love of color is reflected in the paintings.Bazurto, 1994, by Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos is in the game area at rear.
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"It's a Balinese pavilion on the Kohala Coast," Paul Vincent Wiseman says of the house he and his associate Timmie Friend designed with architect Robert Glazier on the Big Island of Hawaii for a couple.
The living area "has no doors," Wiseman says. "It's open on all four sides. The floor lamps and the rug suggest but don't define the room's perimeters." Victorian armchair from Amy Perlin Antiques. Patterson, Flynn Martin carpet.
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Brass doors mark the entrance.
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The master bedroom. "Our goal was to create an oasis by floating the bed in the center of the room, decked in tropical-colored fabrics," says Friend. Manuel Canovas pillow sham fabric. Carpet, Stark.
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On a lanai, a large Balinese iron pot was turned into a fountain.
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Terraces, with walls made of lava rock collected from fields on the island, "spill down toward the pool, which rests on a cliff overlooking the Pacific," the architect says.
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"The narrow dining area required us to keep the furniture minimal and the table slender," notes the designer. Dutch colonial gridded-glass lanterns, dating to circa 1930, hang above the table. Chairs from McGuire. Viking range.
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Semitransparent slatted screens designed by Wiseman frame the his-and-her vanities in the master bath. The stool is Javanese.
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R. L. Scott Seymour collaborated on the landscaping, which features white plumeria and a variety of palms.
