Skyeview Camelback

Skyeview is the culmination of a visionary transformation, where a rundown 1976-era home has been reborn as a 3,000 square foot boutique vacation home, poised majestically atop Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona. Inspired by the mesmerizing Arizona skyline and the vibrant energy of the surrounding desert landscape, it embodies a new era of luxury living, where art, architecture, and innovation converge to create a sanctuary unlike any other.

The brief, as it related to the interior design was to create a space as evocative, and seductive as the setting in which it sits, perched high on the southern face of Camelback Mountain. To accomplish this, we took an almost voyeuristic approach to the design, where each space in the home is carefully choreographed to hold one's gaze or make you look twice. And with space at a premium, limited by a 3,000 square footprint, form and function were paramount.

Drawing inspiration from its desert surroundings, a material pallet of concrete, steel, marble, and wood is echoed throughout the home, providing an air of sophistication and elegance. An 8' steel fireplace fabricated to sit flush with the floor, both provides space above for a frame tv, and behind for a 12' stacking wall of glass to discreetly pocket out of view.

Anchored by a Mark Maggiori masterpiece, the main living space is meant to gather, and entertain. Ceilings and walls clad in Lunawood, providing a warmth and a connection of interior to exterior. Calacatta Viola stone elegantly ties in the kitchen countertops with the desert oak cabinetry and granite rock face revealed in the window behind the cooktop.

A concrete bathtub is framed in a massive 8x10 window, serving as a sculptural focal point of the first primary suite, while allowing bathers to enjoy vistas from the comfort of their bedroom. On the opposite side of the home, in primary suite two, a double-vanity fabricated in marble divides a room where walls were removed in favor of views. A steel-framed mirror suspended by steel wire, seemingly defies gravity and floats above it, providing a delineation of space between bed and bathroom while allowing views to be taken in from any point in the suite.