Born in Paris, French designer Beatrice Faverjon first moved to California to pursue a directing profession. After the delivery of her second baby, she shifted her focus to ceramics and inside design, creating houses “with the will to raise their performance to the extent of artwork whereas giving magnificence and which means to our day by day lives.” She began along with her personal Los Angeles house and expanded from there.
However throughout COVID, a brand new alternative offered itself. After years of touring to the Hawaiian island of Kauai for holidays, Beatrice got here throughout a home on the market with a view of Hanalei Bay. “I wasn’t capable of fly to Kauai then, so I requested my actual property agent to go to the home on my behalf and FaceTime me,” she explains. “She first confirmed me the view of Hanalei Bay from the deck. I requested her to show the digicam round and found this gem.”
The gem in query is a redwood home inbuilt 1973 by architect Douglas Ackerman for Donn Carswell, the engineer behind Kauai’s Princeville infrastructure throughout the Seventies. Located on the island’s North Shore, the home remained within the Carswell household till Beatrice and her household bought it in 2021. “The home had not been lived in for fairly some time and had suffered from years of neglect. However regardless of the dusty carpeting and a Eighties rework, it was nonetheless an unbelievable instance of Hawaiian modernism.” Drawing on her background in each directing and ceramics, Beatrice approached the rework with a way of preservation. “I attempt to protect homes greater than redesign them,” she says. She maintained the ground plan, updating the kitchen, loos, and bedrooms simply sufficient and with a sympathetic spirit. “I needed to guard the home’s unique magnificence and provides it a brand new life on the identical time, whereas respecting the robust symbiosis between Hawaiian structure, West Coast modernism, and Japanese heritage.” The home can be obtainable as a trip rental by way of Airbnb. Be a part of us for a go searching.
Images by Kate Berry courtesy of Beatrice Faverjon.
