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Monday, March 19, 2012

From Curbed Marketplace: The Arch Digest-Approved Home of Designer Campion Platt

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, March 13, 2012, by Sarah Firshein

Here now, From Curbed Marketplace, highlighting an intriguing real estate listing from the many thousands of properties found in the Curbed Marketplace. Browsing the Marketplace and spot a property worthy of being featured? Send it to the tipline.

Many listings boast publishing pedigree—after all, why wouldn't a broker want potential buyers to know that a certain property was nice enough to be featured in, say, Dwell or Elle Decor? But it's not every day that one happens upon a listing that's at once the home of a world-renowned interior designer and architect and the subject of an Architectural Digest feature. Such is the case with Campion Platt's seven-bedroom Colonial Revival in Palm Beach, Fla., which he and wife Tatiana use in winter. Built in 1924 as a Mission-style home, the property was renovated 12 years later by architect Gustav Maass, who added elements such as a large bay window, and was recently landmarked by the Palm Beach Landmarks Preservation Commission for being "in perfect scale and form with the neighborhood." About those light, breezy interiors: "We wanted to rewrite some of the Palm Beach rules and to create a tropical sense of luxury in a fresh, bohemian way: colorful, historic, modern and intimate," Platt told Arch Digest in the Sept. 2009 issue. He was inspired by the 1988 drama White Mischief: "I liked the gauzy white curtains, the dark woods, the African influence overlaying the British colonial bones of the houses—and the mischief in the air." The home is listed for $3.295M.

· Five Listings Ripped From the Pages of Architectural Digest [Curbed National]
· Undisclosed Address, Palm Beach, Fla. [Zillow]
· Designers' Own Homes: Campion Platt [Architectural Digest]


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