The Courtyard Pool
The hum at the center of the house: a sun-washed pool ringed in teak decking and native palms, with poolside dining by day and lantern-warm evenings.
The pool is the reason the house hums. It sits at the center of the courtyard the way a hearth sits at the center of an older kind of home: wrapped in teak decking laid like a yacht's, shaded at its edges by native palms, open to the Miami Beach sun through the middle of the day. By day the deck is where the house slows down, with light plates and cold drinks brought out unhurried. After dark the water stills and the courtyard turns to low, warm light, the hour the house keeps for two. It is an intimate pool by resort standards, and deliberately so: a house this small means you will often have the water to yourself.
Access
- Included for guests
Getting there
At the center of the courtyard, a few steps from every ground-floor room.
Highlights
- Sun through the day — The courtyard holds the Miami Beach sun from mid-morning until the light goes gold on the stucco.
- Poolside dining by day — Light plates and cold drinks served on the deck: the maison's answer to a dining room, and better dressed.
- Teak, laid like a yacht deck — The decking follows the same yacht-deck pattern the designer embossed through the house, smooth and warm underfoot.
- Quiet after dark — Evenings the water stills and the courtyard turns to low, warm light, the hour kept for couples.
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