Classical Vocabularies: A Villa On Indian Creek Island Evokes The Glamour Of 1930s Florida

“In 1929 Maurice Fatio, the Swiss-born architect to the Vanderbilts, Wideners, Phippses and other celebrities of late-1920s and 1930s Palm Beach, Florida, society, built a palatial villa in his signature Renaissance Revival style to house the Indian Creek Country Club on Indian Creek Island.

Others gradually sprang up around it, some rivaling Fatio’s in splendor. The most recent of them is an amply scaled, 50-room, 34,000-square-foot residence with an equally amply scaled interior designed by Marjorie Shushan, whose first commission many years ago was also a large house on Indian Creek Island. Today she is back with what she jokingly calls ‘something like a majority share in Indian Creek decorating.’

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The interiors are imbued with a similarly classical feel, thanks to Shushan and her frequent collaborator, interior architect Brian O’Keefe. ‘You have to see that the interior belongs to the exterior you’ve just seen before you enter. It all has to balance, to go hand-in-hand, to give complete continuity from exterior to interior,’ says the designer. – Excerpt, Architectural Digest. READ MORE

Interior Architecture by Brian O’Keefe, AIA Interior Design by Marjorie Shushan / Architecture by Ernesto Buch and de la Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists