Acclaimed Designer Nancy Braithwaite's Oceanfront Kiawah Island Home Goes on the Market

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Acclaimed Designer Nancy Braithwaite’s
Oceanfront Kiawah Island Home Goes on
the Market
Luxurious minimalism bathed in serene South Carolina light
characterizes this family home.
BY JORGE S . AR AN G O ON APR IL 4, 2018

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In 2007, when interior designer Nancy Braithwaite, husband Jim, and their architect, James Choate,
began erecting a contemporary home of poured concrete, glass, and Western cedar, they caused a
minor stir in the neighborhood. Though the home had oblique classical references, it didn’t conform
to the prevalent vernaculars of Kiawah Island: plantations, arts and crafts, and shingle cottages.
And it was on Ocean Course Drive, one of the most desirable thoroughfares on Kiawah, which
listing agent Kay Halsey calls “the Pebble Beach of the East.”

Over 10 years later, however, it is respected for its innovative beauty. Measuring 5,208 square feet
(plus 742 square feet of outdoor porch and decks), its three 49-foot gabled pavilions are shaded
behind a majestic 125-year-old live oak. Even though it is crisply framed by Sheila Werteimer’s
orderly stepped hedges, imparting a stateliness to the façade, “It was a house designed for a family
first and foremost,” says Braithwaite. Featured in her 2014 book, Simplicity (Rizzoli), the home’s
impressive exterior belies the relaxed warmth and accessibility of the interiors, which become
immediately apparent as one passes through the 5-foot wide, 11-foot-tall pivoting plate-glass front
door.

Despite the soaring ceilings—24 feet on the second floor—the rooms are not sprawling. Rather,
they feel intimate and cozy, which was Braithwaite’s goal. The whole house is a unified
composition, limited to a soothing palette of organic colors and natural materials throughout. “If
rooms were different colors,” she observes, “it would have segmented the house and taken away
from the peacefulness.” Black, white, sandy ochre, and smoky gray take turns dominating individual
rooms. Mahogany and Black Mountain stone floors quarried in India, a black honed granite kitchen
island, and limestone-lined baths in the five-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bath residence all feel
substantial and grounding.

The furnishings, which can be purchased separately, are generously scaled and feature minimalist
lighting by Kevin Reilly, rope-wrapped pieces specially commissioned from the great Christian
Astuguevielle, and artworks and installations by, among others, Robert Kuo, Bud Galland, and
famed sweetgrass basket maker Mary Jackson.

The house faces a tidal marsh out front and, beyond the cantilevered saltwater pool, panoramic
ocean views out back. Between the house and the beach is Pete and Alice Dye’s Ocean Course,
which means the house has front-row seats for the 2021 PGA Championship. Golf, of course—
aside from the wild natural landscape, bobcats, alligators, and bald eagles—is arguably the island’s
major attraction. Providentially, an exclusive Kiawah Island Club golf membership is available with
the purchase of this home. It provides access to two other highly coveted golf experiences. The
River Course, designed by Tom Fazio in 1995, is the most challenging course on the island.
Running along the Kiawah River, it has tree-lined fairways, marshes, billy bunkers, and ponds. More
of a classic links course, the Cassique Course, designed by Tom Watson, opened in 2000. The
Kiawah Island Club is slowly replacing its bunkers with stacked-sod versions that impart a sculptural
presence on the land. And last year, the Club erected a remarkable state-of-the-art learning center
at the north end of the driving range.

The Kiawah Island Club, of course, includes many other amenities, such as the 10,000-square-foot
 Clodagh-designed Sasanqua Spa, various clubhouses and restaurants, and a sports pavilion.
 (Memberships have an initiation deposit of $135,000.)

 The home is listed for $6.9 million, and the furniture is for sale at an additional cost.

     KIAWAH ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA

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