Fiji’s Reef House Residence Is a Viewport to Breathtaking Vistas

Teal waters lap white sand seashores merely exterior this 6,000-square-foot ocean-front property positioned on two acres of Fiji’s northern shore contained in the spectacular lowland peninsula of Vomo Island. Aptly named Reef House, the residence provides world class entry to waves and an architectural viewport to frame breathtaking vistas. Nevertheless to understand such a calm-inducing space required assembling a world workforce in an effort as grand as its scale.

Modern kitchen with a light wood finish, island counter with three black stools, a plant in a glass vase, and a dark dining table with chairs. Ceiling features a wooden design and a chandelier.

The family for whom the home was constructed launched collectively experience from disparate ends of the earth along with Canadian-based company Construction Establishing Custom, New Zealand-based panorama architects Wraight + Associates LTD, San Francisco-based Lindsay Gerber Interiors, and an Australian lighting designer – amongst others. No matter COVID delays and the bodily distance between all occasions involved, the collaboration proved to be synergistic as evidenced by the workforce’s inventive choices.

Modern kitchen and dining area with wooden ceiling and large hanging light fixtures. A long dark wooden dining table with eight chairs is in the foreground, and the kitchen features white cabinetry.

Open-air lounge with modern furniture and a low table, under a wooden ceiling. View of outdoor loungers, lush greenery, and the ocean in the background.

Spacious modern interior featuring a wooden ceiling, white pillars, tile flooring, a gray sofa, a dining table with several chairs, and a kitchen area with white cabinets and countertops.

A pavilion system comprises the compound with the precept development devised by architect Mark Ritchie to perform its coronary coronary heart and lungs. This versatile residing and leisure space expands and contracts as desired with the place of big sliding glass partitions to absorb salty, current air whereas delineating between a correct indoor lounge and consuming room off the kitchen. What’s further, these two areas are separated by an open breezeway furnished as a shaded outside lounge. “When the complete glass partitions are opened the influence is breathtaking” says inside designer Lindsay Gerber. “The rooms not solely combine collectively seamlessly, nonetheless they seem to melt into the black bottom zero edge pool and ocean previous.”

A modern bedroom with a wooden ceiling, white bedding, a curtain, and a view of a pool and tropical vegetation through sliding glass doors.

Modern bathroom with a minimalist design featuring a countertop sink, black faucet, towel rack with a hanging checkered towel, and a large glass window looking out to a small outdoor green space.

Additional programming saved close to the core incorporates a butler’s pantry, powder room, service rooms, altering area, sports activities actions gear room, the swimming pool positioned parallel to the house, patios, scorching tub, and in depth yard whose tendrils lengthen previous most people areas. Flanking all sides of that central nucleus alongside the horizontal axis are three pavilions of a smaller scale – two on one aspect, which dwelling 4 explicit individual mattress room suites, and one on the other for a further secluded main suite.

A wooden alcove featuring a cushioned bench seat. Sunlight streams through a gap, creating a bright line on the white wall. Lush greenery is visible outside.

A tropical outdoor scene featuring a rectangular swimming pool surrounded by palm trees and greenery, adjacent to a modern building with open seating areas.

The enterprise proposes a paradise stable from a productive dialogue between standard Pacific sorts or expressions and trendy architectural language. Roughness and spontaneity are balanced by magnificence and restraint, respectively. An off-white limestone grounds the material palette in simplicity and unity whereas showcasing pure texture as a result of it patinas with maturity over time. This heterogeneity moreover helps increased articulate the other finishes and furnishings chosen: blond colored Victorian Ash picket, charcoal porcelain pool tile, and the off-white painted plastered partitions, along with darkish dwelling home windows and fixtures, and the luxurious greens on premises.

A white modern house with a gray roof is surrounded by lush green vegetation and palm trees under a blue sky with some clouds.

Linens and wool complement exterior grade supplies for simple movement from open air to indoors the place firm might uncover comfort in a variety of handmade, artisan gadgets. The monumental “Urchin” pendants suspended above the consuming desk come from Coup D’Etat in San Francisco, from the place the entire built-in leather-based headboards moreover hail. The mattress room pendants are blown glass from grasp glass designer Alison Berger. And the large wooden consuming, espresso, and console tables, along with mattress room benches, are custom-made designs by Lindsay Gerber Interiors, which had been later manufactured by native artisans in Fiji. So too had been the fabric and customised pillows.

Modern open-air building with a slanted roof, featuring outdoor seating areas. Green foliage in the foreground and a view of the ocean and trees in the background.

“The shapes we designed for the wooden tables and casegoods all by had been straightforward in sort, nonetheless we requested them to utilize a fragile hand scraping methodology that mimics the ripples on the ocean,” Gerber notes of nature’s have an effect on echoed throughout the aesthetics. “It was a pleasure to work with them and we beloved showcasing their experience and the engaging picket.”

A modern building with a pitched roof is surrounded by tropical palm trees, located near a calm, blue ocean under a clear sky.

A coastal resort with buildings surrounded by palm trees overlooks a calm, sunlit ocean and a mountainous area on the horizon.

Photographs by Sean Fennessy.

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