The Design-Forward Builder Reshaping Southwest Florida’s Luxury Landscape

In this 5,500-square-foot home on Third Street North, the first impression is not about one focal point—though there’s plenty to ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ over—it’s about, well, the impression. There’s a glassed-in study just past the front door where Poliform built-ins lend gravitas behind a desk with black-lacquer legs. A sweep through the great room reveals perfectly proportioned furniture; the touch of a button changes the lighting inside and out, drawing the eye past the pool to a well-appointed guest cabana. A slab of Calacatta marble on the kitchen wall is offset by bright-white, modern Poliform cabinets, its bronze and gold veining echoed in a chandelier here, a side table there. “The sum of the parts is better than the whole,” says Mark Wilson, CEO of London Bay. “You get the impact as you come through the front door.”

This year, London Bay celebrates 35 years in business. Mark started the company building single-family luxury homes and is now one of the region’s major builder-developers. He credits his success to his team and their integrated approach. “From the beginning, I saw myself as a sort of conductor of the orchestra of design,” he says. “We were the first in the luxury home space to step back and say, ‘What if you integrate architecture and interior design and do it all very well’?”

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