Ranch & Coast Feature

We were honored to have been selected for a special article featuring one of our most favorite projects, my own home. The full article can be viewed here.

“Designed by Susanné, who owns Atmospheres Interior Design, the style of the Bacinos’ home is “East meets West,” with an Asian-European flair. Susanné teams a French sofa and leather chairs, for example, with pieces from Bali and China. Her grandmother, who collected Asian antiques, was an inspiration. “I think that’s where I got my sensibility,” she says. “I just love the detail.” In the family room, she fashioned the fireplace mantel from a Chinese carving of Foo dogs that once graced a doorway, and selected ornately carved black wood armoires, replicas from the mid-Qing Dynasty. Antique Chinese lanterns illuminate the kitchen island and breakfast nook. In the powder room, a dramatic dragon carving frames a mirror, and Italian light fixtures from Fortuny’s “Concubine Collection” look like Chinese lanterns.”

“Susanné designed the kitchen with separate workstations because family members like to pitch in. There’s a prep station for the sous chef, for example, and a clean-up area. And there’s plenty of seating. The formal dining room seats 14, and guests often spill out into the loggia to dine by the fire, or at tables set up in the backyard overlooking the golf course.”