Cantoni great design is a way of life

On June 25, 2009, Metropolitan Home Magazine and Cantoni celebrated the debut of Axis, Cantoni’s premier concept home, with an exclusive cocktail fete host by Metropolitan Home City Editor Helen Thompson and Cantoni Founder & CEO Michael Wilkov. Over 350 guests enjoyed exclusive access to the one-of-a-kind home that showcases the resources of the Cantoni Design Studio. Park Place Motors provided a selection of their most exclusive vehicles including the Bugatti Grand Sport, Rolls Royce Phantom and Bentley coupe. The buzzing crowd included Cantoni project partners, Bontempi Cucine, Victor Almeida of Interceramic, Ben Callison and Jason Kongabel of Mohment Architecture and...

DRAMATIC CANTONI DESIGN FOR HUDSON TERRACE Last eNewsletter, we told you about Cantoni Los Angeles designing the interiors of a model unit for Toledo Homes’ Delacey Place condominiums in Pasadena. Owners Mike and Nairian Balian loved the results so much, they asked the LA team to stage a condo in their new Hudson Terrace project. The staging was a collaboration of Cantoni LA general manager Jay Haen; director of corporate design and media relations, Alissa Sutton, and operations assistant Denise Medina. The same team worked on the Balian’s Delacey Place project. Alissa: “Our client wanted a...

DELACEY PLACE, CANTONI & GREAT DESIGN IN PASADENABest known for the Rose Bowl and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is an architecturally classic Southern California in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains, about 15 minutes north of Los Angeles. Cantoni Los Angeles got a call from long-time customers, Mike and Nairie Balian, who were reviewing several high-end stores to find the best one to design the interiors of a model unit to showcase and promote their Delancey Place condominiums in downtown Pasadena. Mike, president of Toledo Homes, is one of the premier residential developers in the area. His Delacey...

GREAT DESIGN IS A WAY OF LIFE IN FLORIDACantoni has a wonderful Atlanta client who loves all things Italian and embodies our Great Design Is a Way of Life themeCantoni has a wonderful Atlanta client who loves all things Italian and embodies our Great Design Is a Way of Life theme in every project we've helped him bring to life. For his new penthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, its light and its maze of waterways evoking Venice, his favorite city in Italy, the client directed Cantoni Atlanta’s Kohl Sudnikovich to go all out with the Italian inspiration. The...

CANTONI NAILS GREAT DESIGN. LITERALLY.Our Great Designers get palette inspirations from many diverse sources including, not surprisingly, their clients'favorite colors. In the case of the Basden home featured in this eNewsletter, the inspiration was Deletia Basden’s signature manicure: orange.Cantoni Dallas Design Consultant Jana Andrews says, “These clients love the sun, sea and the bright colors of the tropics, so this was our starting point for a palette.” Like so many Cantoni projects, the Basden interiors were a product of serendipity: client drops in, meets Cantoni designer, they click, before long: another modern masterpiece. Jana: ...

LIVING LARGE IN LAKE FOREST Lake Forest is a gated community in a campus-like setting with private park and greenbelt, ponds and lake, hiking-biking trails and some of the most beautiful luxury homes in Dallas. Our Lake Forest homeowner clients, an attorney and his fiancée, who has her own clothing line, had heard about us from his interior designer mother, and dropped into Cantoni Dallas, where they were greeted by Design Consultant Elizabeth Lewis. “Scott and Kelly were moving from a condo,” says Elizabeth, “to a 6,500-square ft. home designed and built to their specifications...

Posh Paws was inspired by a stylized, polyethylene puppy created by renowned designer Eero Aarnio.  The Aarnio Puppy, which comes in a variety of colors and sizes, can stand alone as a sculpture, a toy, a small stool, or whatever your imagination wants it to be.  But Cantoni wanted it to be something more: So in our efforts to raise awareness for animals in need of rescue, we teamed up with celebrities, artists, and designers to embellish Aarnio Puppies which were auctioned off at a special Gala and Auction in late June 2008 at all Cantoni locations.