Cantoni great design is a way of life

STUNNING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIABEACH HOME STAGED BY CANTONI In the 25 years since the founding of Cantoni, I’ve seen some sensational houses. We’ve featured many on our website, in our advertising and in this eNewsletter. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a residence better suited to Cantoni than Mark Zigner’s breathtaking home in Laguna Beach. That’s exactly what Mark was thinking when he sought out Cantoni Irvine’s Design Studio on the suggestion of his real estate company, Coast Sotheby’s, who wanted Mark to have his...

ARCHITECT-DESIGNED HOME, INTERIORS BY CANTONI. THIS IS THE WAY TO RETIRE!Upon retirement, Rob Wilsey and his wife, Mary, pulled up roots in Southern California and headed to the peace and quiet of Granbury, Texas, a lovely little lake town southwest of Fort Worth. Easier said than done, considering the logistics of finding the ideal property, working with architect and builder long distance, the moving itself, finding the right interior designer, and sourcing the contemporary furnishings they wanted. Rob and Mary had shopped Cantoni Irvine, so they knew of us, and were delighted to discover that Cantoni Dallas, our flagship...

CANTONI HELPS RESTORE STORM-DAMAGED GALVESTON HOME Avi and Margo Markowitz spent nine months gutting, remodeling and furnishing their home on Galveston Island in a contemporary style they loved. It took Hurricane Ike only minutes to batter their dream house and devastate the entire ground floor. “We had 18 inches of seawater surge through the downstairs rooms,” says Margo. “After all that work, we were faced with starting over. It was a depressing, daunting task, complicated by having to deal with mortgage companies to fight for our insurance claims.” Cantoni Houston is some 50 miles inland from Galveston, but...

Texas summer heat notwithstanding, we had overflow turnouts at our open house soirées for the official debut of Axis: the first Cantoni house. If you’re a regular reader of this eNewsletter, you’ll know Cantoni is creating a series of houses designed, built and furnished to our ideas of what great modern, energy-efficient residential design can be–inside and out–from the landscaping to the linens. Axis is a project that’s been nearly three years in gestation. Here’s how it came about: Cantoni designer Pogir and I were tossing...

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...