BEL AIR VILLA

BEL AIR \ CALIFORNIA

Arched stone loggia frames the pool and villa beyond beneath an overhanging tree.

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

Dining terrace beneath a columned pergola overlooks lawn and a garden pavilion.
Bel Air Villa landscape plan showing formal beds, terraces, and a rectangular pool.
Sheltered loggia seating overlooks the pool and arched villa facade.
Arched stone loggia frames the pool and villa beyond beneath an overhanging tree.
Rounded clusters of green flowers above blue-green garden foliage.
Small lavender flowers among slender leaves against a pale wall.
Tiny pink flowers beside broad, textured green leaves.
Silver-green shrub growing in a raised stone-edged planting bed.
Olive tree in a gravel bed beside pale stone steps.
Outdoor sofas and dining furniture beneath a white pergola casting striped shadows.
Small central fountain in a courtyard enclosed by columns and arched windows.
Breakfast table beside glass doors overlooking the courtyard fountain.
Steps lead through ornate open gates beneath a stone arch, flanked by potted topiary.
Long arched loggia with terracotta paving, lanterns, and outdoor tables.
Palms and clipped shrubs border the villa's arched windows and gravel path.
Rectangular pool aligned with a three-arched pavilion across a formal lawn.

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