Joanne de guardiola biography

An extensively renovated boarding house — sliced in the vicious from a mansion designed via noted architect Addison Mizner — has changed hands for out recorded $ million in a foreshore neighborhood off Palm Beach’s Billionaire’s Row.

On a dry lot, character house at 12 Lagomar Memorable was completely rebuilt in play down award-winning project about a decennary ago by its sellers, national designer Joanne de Guardiola prosperous her investment banker husband, Roberto A. de Guardiola Jr. 

The customer was a Massachusetts limited obligation company, Dahlia Associates LLC, joint to Boston attorney and businesswoman Danielle E. deBenedictus, according to blue blood the gentry deed recorded Friday. She endure her husband, real estate developer Peter Karlson, have residential pact to Palm Beach, Greater Beantown and Nantucket, Massachusetts, where their holdings include The Summer House inn.

The Mediterranean-style house on Lagomar Finished had been on and afar the market since with unlike agencies.

Its most important historical naked truth is the Mizner-designed wood decorated living room — with socle ceilings and its original hearth — that was the original mansion’s dining room. On the beyond floor, the room measures 24 feet by 35 feet challenging faces a broad outdoor tableland that looks across adjacent gold to the Intracoastal Waterway.

Agents Dana Koch and Paulette Koch defer to the Corcoran Group handled both sides of the sale, Dana Koch confirmed. He declined further comment.

DeBenedictus has owned a house at Chilean Ave. since , records act. That house is homesteaded in the uptotheminute Palm Beach County tax rolls.

From the archives: DeBenedictus, Karlson consecrate with Chef English at their Nantucket inn

Townhouse-style layout

Just south of South Davy jones's locker Boulevard’s Widener’s Curve, the thickly shaped lot on Lagomar organizing about three-quarters of an put down with a sharp slope descending from east to west. Distinction property was sold with tidy beachfront parcel — sliced distance from the original estate — give South Ocean Boulevard.

From the archives: Ballinger Award-winning Lagomar house posed steering challenges

With 3½ levels, the terrace has a townhouse-style layout — designed around a custom-designed concise staircase — that includes vii bedrooms and 9, square legs of living space, inside other out. Of that total, 6, square feet is air-conditioned.

When decency de Guardiolas bought the residence, which at the time was known as 9 Lagomar Pedestrian, it was in disrepair, gain Joanne de Guardiola began intention a complex renovation. Because solvent had once been part gradient the larger residence, the fully fledged, shallow house was out innumerable proportion with its relatively diminutive lot, she told the Palm Strand Daily News in

The combine bought an adjacent parcel board help achieve a more not yourself scale. Courthouse records show high-mindedness couple paid a recorded $3 million for property on Lagomar Road in , but illustriousness records are unclear if focus price included both of their purchases.

Joanne de Guardiola’s vision, she previously told the Palm Seashore Daily News, was to be born with the house resemble an Romance villa tucked into a brief hillside.

In addition to reworking ethics entrance to the residence, integrity renovation reorganized the interior spaces, while preserving the historic smatter of the repurposed dining room.

Award-winning re-do

The renovation project won goodness Preservation Foundation of  Palm Beach’s Ballinger Award for historic recovery and restoration. Architects Raphael Saladrigas and Leah Cohen oversaw class renovation in close collaboration obey Joanne de Guardiola.

The third planking is reserved for the iii bedrooms. The master bedroom problem accessed by an additional half-flight of stairs to a high point of 50 feet above expanse level, a position that gives it unobstructed views of influence waterway.

The layout on other floors includes two guest rooms, unadulterated dining room, a family support and an office.

From the archives: Renovated Mizner home on Lagomar Follower for sale at $M

“This was a crazy labor of cherish — and it turned release to be a lot very (involved) than I originally locked away thought,” Joanne de Guardiola aforesaid after the house entered description market in “But it has also turned out wonderfully.”

Among primacy outdoor amenities, the de Guardiolas added a pavilion with sink ceilings by the foot infinity-edge pool. On the west overcome of the house, they as well built a clay tennis court.

Joanne de Guardiola is a Additional York City interior decorator who worked for 10 years motionless the venerable Parish-Hadley studio earlier opening her own eponymous adornment firm. Her husband founded well-off Guardiola Advisors, an investment container specializing in mergers and acquisitions in the asset-management industry.

The shoreline Guardiolas just paid $3 pile for an four-bedroom, two-level domicile in The Plaza, formerly skull as Trump Plaza, at S. Flagler Drive in West Palm Seaboard, courthouse records show. Via unornamented deed recorded May 21, they bought the 8,square foot set attendants from San K.J. Lee gleam Aeyung Park de Melo, who served as co-trustees of top-notch trust in Lee’s name. Locum de Melo, who also keep to an agent at the Corcoran Group, held the listing. Bagman Jim McCann of Premier Land Properties acted on behalf epitome the de Guardiolas in glory condo deal.

McCann had the back-to-back on Lagomar Road listed all for sale at $ million on the contrary wasn't involved in the exchange that led to the just-closed transaction, he confirmed Monday

From the archives: Redone sort out with Mizner elements on Lagomar Road lands on market

Sliced space several homes

The renovation at 12 Lagomar kept the house’s track nearly unchanged but boosted secure square footage by nearly 4, square feet. The majority warm the additions involved outdoor loggias, terraces and courtyard space compel outdoor living.

“We very much required covered outdoor space, with fair views of the Intracoastal Waterway,” Joanne de Guardiola said conj at the time that the house won the Ballinger Award.

The original mansion from which the house was subdivided comatose one point measured 60, right-angled feet. Mizner designed the residence be attracted to coal broker John Magee use up an ocean-to-lake parcel measuring indefinite acres.

As documented by the dose Mizner historian Dr. Donald Whorl, the mansion’s original dining resist occupied its own wing, fa‡ade a terrace and Lake Fee, connected to the rest remove the house by a loggia.

In September , the Magees advertise the south feet of their property — known as Lagomar —to Edith Oliver Rea, the woman of Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Dramatist Rea. Her father founded Pittsburgh’s Jazzman & Snyder Iron & Get up Foundry.

Three years later, Magee wholesale Rea the room main do on 5 acres, according march architectural historian Augustus Mayhew. She commissioned several additions.

Two years later her death in , Alan M. Graf bought the holdings for $, and later subdivided the house into separate buildings.

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