Bay Magazine - April, 2016

SPECIAL HOMES ISSUE

A MAGAZINE OF THE TAMPA BAY TIMES

APRIL 2016

WHERE THE HEART IS

" ! "

!

"

"

! " ! "

" " "

" " # $ & $ ! ! %

$

, ,-& / , 0$, ) / 1 +$6 666 )5 %# 2## # &0(,$6(+$61 ,1$) 3 ) ) 3 (*" / # **% / *( %"

/ 1 11 ) / ,$ 666 ) # !%4 #5 +1+( $0( ,$$ 6& % '%/) 3 ) #%)/ */(*" / # **% / *( %"

-& / 0 & ) / 1 0 6 666 ) 2)#* &0( 00(+ &6 $&&"%%) # ) ! (*" / # **% / *( %"

/ )/ # # / 66* ) # & $1 1 +1, ! # ! * " +1+(1 ,( & ! # ! )4 / )( %"

0 1 / & & ) / 0$$ $$$ )5 %# 2## # &0(,$6(+$61 ,604 */ 5/% 5 %2! 3 ) (*" / # **% / *( %"

-& / 1 ) / & 1+ 666 2## # )5 %# &0(1$ ( ,+ $605 / !2 ) 3 (*" / # **% / *( %"

) # )%" / 66* /% & 61 6,1

/( / )* 2) ! * " +1+(1 6(0 6

/ / )* 2) ( %"

+ +-& / $ 001 ) / & , 6 666 ) # !%4 #5 +1+( 01(&&+, 60" #%! ) 3 (*" / # **% / *( %"

/ 0 , ) / & $ 66 ) 2)#* &0( 00(+ &6 &&& 5*4 5(*" / # **% / *( %"

-& / &+$ ) / ,1 666 2/2"# / ) &0(+++(6 , 2/2"# / ) (*" / # **% / *( %"

1-& / 1 1 ) / & &1 666 2## # )5 %# &0(1$ ( ,+ 66,4 */* #" 2 !*/) /(*" / # **% / *( %"

/ &1, ) / $1 $66 2! "'! /%# &0(0 1(1,66 0&&4 */ ) !%# */) /(*" / # **% / *( %"

0 / && ) / & &1 666 ) " # * &0(0+0( $$0 6&14 */ #" # 3 #2 (*" / # **% / *( %"

0 0-& / 0 + 6 ) / & 0 $ 66 ) 2)#* &0( 00(+ &6 &&6 5*4 5(*" / # **% / *( %"

9$(!3*( $ %*.: "$3 . ( (!6 . ./" ' 3" . . 3 .*8(# *. ( *"( $ " . / & $ %*.: (( .: ** . ($7 ./ & %' ( ' ./*( 3 $ $&&: " ',$*( $( .3 ',/ .(" . 3 ( (36. $& 8** $3& ( # '$3" .3$/3$ 3 ( *. //$ " .& / *.3/ (36.: .! $( $ $ " & "*' / . .$ % **, . '' .: 3 (& : & % ' .$ ( . 8 ' && $& / & *33 & $/ :( /$!(/ &$!" . /3 ( 6!/ *'': " ' /3 .( (3/

055 - * & : 6(( $!"8 : ( - * & : - //

+4# )5;#410 (( && / 6.($36. - *' 3*. *6./ *( : 3".*6!" 36. : ) -'- #

,-'-

99 ,) ,) '; /

'' $1

$27 7 4 ** ???

( !

99 ,17" $) $1 ' '' $1

*? ,$)7 2$ '( 1 ,1

$27 7 9 ?? ???

$27 7 9 ?** ???

? '( 2' ) ' 1< 7 1

$27 7 - 9* ???

-- >(,)7 71 7 +3?- ' 1< 7 1 "

$27 7 9 ? ???

-83? :' '; +*?8 ' 1< 7 1 "

$27 7 - 8* ???

8 8 ': $ < 1$; '' $1 ': 2

%

!

# "# ) " " ) "#

$27 7 - ?? ???

&&& !

)/! , % &( ( # (& & %+ # , % &( ( * . &*"" %(& ( "% " & ( % *& ( ( $* "" %(* (. (# " % ( . &* & %. # , % ( , % , % % + ,& ( % ( ( % + ,& % % &( % * % &( % & %+ % & , . , % &( ( # "% " %(. % ( % & % + % + % *& & *% & ( ( . * *( ( ( ( * (. % % & ( * ( " &( %+ ( . * ""% - ( &# ( * ( % ( & + ( *% ( ( & ( , %% ( . * & * ( % . *" ( , ( *( " %& + % ( #

4 7,) ! 7 1$;

'' $1

77 )7$,) 7, ; 1> 7 $' = (.'$ 2 7"$2 27:))$)! 1,,( / 7" ",( / =0:$2$7 )) 22 ' 27,) < ' ,( 2 >,: $) 7, 7" ,> 1 ,1( ' '$;$)! ) $)$)! 1,,(2 2:. 1 &$7 " ) ($'> 1,,( .' >1,,( $''$ 1 25 1 1,,( '$ 1 1> <$) '' 1 ) 2 1 ) ' ) $/ 4 7,) ! 7 1$; / ,( 1 7 9 3* ???

98?9 " 1 $' ) $ ) , &2 "

-3 $)7 ) 1 <2 <2 1$; '' $1

<) :' 1,)7 $) ,( #.1, : $)! .1,. 17> , 1$)! ',1$ ,' <,1' " 1( "1 2. $,:2 :)$72 <$7" $1 7 :' ;$ <2/ 98?9 " 1 $'/ ,( 1 7 - ? ???

)%,> ! 7 $2' ) '$;$)! , 7" ( $)' ) $) 7"$2 1,,( 8/ 7" ,1$!$) ' '' ;$ < 2' ) :27,( < 7 1 1,)7 27 7 / -3 $)7 ) 1 <2 1$; / ,( 1 7 - ?? ???

- 3 1:$ , / ' 1< 7 1 "

"$2 "$27,1$ 1 2$ ) 7:1 2 1,,(2 8/ 7"2 ,:7 ,,1 .,,' 7 " . 17( )7 7<, 1 ! 1 ! ) 7"1 1.,172 2 7 ,) -/83 1 2/ - 3 1:$ , / ,( 1 7 ** ???

-? . > 71 7 +4?4 ' 1< 7 1 "

"$2 ':=:1$,:2 ' 1< 7 1 " 859/ ,) , , 12 , 27 ' '$;$)! 7 $72 27 7 7"$2 ,(.' = ', 7 ,) 7" :' , =$ ,/ ) ' > " ': 4?4/ ,( 1 7 * * *??

% ) #) ! ! ( % ( # ( ( $ $ '! !

# "# )

&&& !

Apr May WELCOME TO THE HOMES ISSUE

AT HOME

36

Take a peek inside six Tampa Bay houses varying greatly in structure, setting and style. From bungalow to beach modern, our area offers an eclectic collection of architecture and personality.

22 COLORFUL FINDS Pantone’s colors of the year for 2016 inspire pink and blue finds online.

106

THE GASPARILLA INN Old Florida-style and luxury awaits at Boca Grande.

122

AROUND TOWN From lush gardens to Western decor, venues are dressed up for fundraisers.

on the cover It’s about time to break out your spring wardrobe.

This year, be free with big bold colors, feathers, unexpected pairings and retro paisley. Whether planning a party or just celebrating a new season, a potpourri of styles are trending.

Loveriche, feather dress in ivory ($159.99), Kelly Reed’s Boutique. Alice & Olivia, Kidman embroidered boxy jacket ($698), Neiman Marcus.

Yochi resin drop earrings ($48), Penelope T Boutique. Page 84.

Cover photograph by Douglas R. Clifford

10 bay

APRIL 2016

Photographs by Eve Edelheit James Borchuck John Pendygraft

!

,(/B 6;>,,',$ 6>,6 ;6 , >;'">* % ', B/>5 , @ /, / */ ; /, ;% >*" /" A' / /, ;% A *>6'? '6* , /" ' 55 5 2

<& 9<&09=& ;% = 7CC3 642";2 % 66 ; 5"5/,; ?' @6 ; 66 5'? ; 1 5)',$

5/+ ;% */@ -CC CCC6 >55 ,;*B >, 5 /,6;5> ;'/, ,"/ >,6 ; /',; 2 /+ 7=72!8#20CCC @@@2 >,6 ; /',; 2 /+

2

70!#C<< 2 2 2

4>';B /,6>*; ,;6 , 2 ' ,6 * 6; ; 5/) 5 000C ', ** 6 B@ B 2 .00< ' 55 5 <<70#

A MAGAZINE OF THE TAMPA BAY TIMES

EDITOR Katherine Snow Smith kssmith@tampabay.com PHOTO EDITOR COPY EDITOR

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Pegie Stark pstark@tampabay.com

Patty Yablonski Cathy Keim

CONTRIBUTORS Caryn Baird, James Borchuck, Douglas R. Clifford, David D. Doonan, Eve Edelheit, Lydia Harvey, Katie McCormick, Kathleen McGrory, Robbyn Mitchell, Jay Nolan, John Pendygraft, Valerie Romas, Kathy Saunders, Amy Scherzer Bay is published eight times a year by Times Publishing Co. and delivered to Tampa Bay Times subscribers in select neighborhoods in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco counties.

Copyright 2016. Vol. 9, No. 6.

THE TAMPA BAY TIMES CHAIRMAN AND CEO Paul C. Tash EDITOR AND VICE PRESIDENT Neil Brown VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES AND MARKETING ADVERTISING MANAGER

Bruce Faulmann

Mark Shurman

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MANAGER TAMPA ADVERTISING MANAGER

Michelle Mitchell

Dawn Philips

National / Major Retail Advertising Manager Kelly Spamer St. Petersburg Retail Advertising Manager Andi Gordon Clearwater Retail Advertising Manager Jennifer Bonin Brandon Advertising Sales Manager Tony Del Castillo Classified Real Estate Manager Ligia Cervera Pasco Retail Manager Luby Sidoff Automotive Advertising Manager Larry West MARKETING MANAGER

Christopher Galbraith

FULFILLMENT MANAGER Gerald Gifford IMAGING AND PRODUCTION Gary Zolg, Brian J. Baracani Jr., Ralph W. Morningstar, Patsy Boatright, Greg Kennicutt DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Jim Thompson

!# # ! !! ! ! ! #$ ! # # & # ! $ % #! $ $ ! $ ! ' #$ ' ' # "! " $ # #

# !! " ! "

14 bay

APRIL 2016

REGIONAL HOME DELIVERY MANAGERS Diann Bates, David Maxam To view the magazine online, visit www.tampabay.com/bay To order photo reprints, visit www.tampabay.com/photosales To advertise in Bay magazine: (727) 893-8535

# # ! $

!

& $

!

%

#

& $

# "

%

#

"

$ " "

# # ""

#

from the editor

HEREâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TO HOMES, NOT JUST HOUSES Welcome to Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Homes issue.

We have highlighted several homes that show the variety of architecture, decor and lifestyles in Tampa Bay. The feature also illustrates the generosity of residents who opened their doors and lives to reporters and photographers.

Our fashion shoot wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been possible without the generosity of my friend Louise Weaver. When our original plan to shoot fashion on different streets throughout the area fell through, we scrambled to find a house we could quickly commandeer for a whole day.

I texted Louise asking if she might be foolish enough to consider it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sure. Sounds fun,â&#x20AC;? she texted back within the hour. I asked if our creative director Pegie Stark and photo editor Patty Yablonski could come look around and plan the shoot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll leave a key out. Come any time,â&#x20AC;? she replied.

Actually, I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that surprised. Louise opened her house for my oldest daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16th birthday

) &! & ! )&(! % !

( -) - + %, $) ( %! ! * ( % & % ( "% ) & , ! + %" * & & (% ! & , !% (&

!* !% ! " !(( !% #####

18 bay

APRIL 2016

and again two years later for her graduation party.

She has hosted her own daughter Elizabethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthdays and graduations there along with plenty other gatherings.

In earlier years kids took china plates and sterling flatware up to the tree house in the strangler fig while Peaches the pig roamed freely under the dining room table. Until recently, Puffin the bunny held court perched in her cage on an antique chest of drawers.

Now cocker spaniels Crispy and Louie serve as ambassadors to this welcoming home.

After hours of transforming the yard to a wonderland for our lovely model Hilary Batcho, photographer Douglas Clifford was fervently chasing the last light of the day shooting accessories in Louiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dining room. He asked if he could move a table. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course,â&#x20AC;? she replied without even looking up from her laptop.

This moment inspired me to think about what makes a house a home.

It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the four walls that contain it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the

granite countertop in the kitchen or the subway tile in the bathroom. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the people who live there and the experiences they share with family, friends and other guests. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s everyday moments, not just the holidays and parties. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certain furnishings, not because of their lines, look or price tags, but for the memories of where they came from.

Helen Pruitt Wallace, St. Petersburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poet laureate, wrote a poem about selling her longtime home. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a letter of sorts to Lorna Taylor, CEO of Premier Eye Care and head of the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance. She bought the 1926 Mediterranean home where Wallace and her husband, Peter Rudy Wallace, raised their family. I think this poem speaks to all of us, no matter what the style or size of our house, on what makes it a home.

Thank you Helen, Louise and Bay readers. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Katherine Snow Smith Have comments, questions? Let us know.

Contact Katherine Snow Smith at (727) 893-8785 or kssmith@tampabay.com.

To the Buyer of Our Old Home ( for Lorna) We can tell you, if you want, which doors creak, which windows need to be re-glazed, which faucet has a tendency to leak, and where a wine glass left a halo etched in the counterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travertine.

And we could share which walls absorb sadness, till morning light leans in comforting the contours of the bed, but chances are youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll learn this on your own. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the cough of the AC kicking on, and the hiss of the heater turning off, and a crack in the plaster by the stairs. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll study it at times as metaphor, a disaster creeping like the bifurcated lines of your palm. But then again, maybe you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;Ś letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go outside.

The doorbell never works when it rains. And the riot of white gardenias blooming now is always late. A black snake burrows through ferns, and a cardinal spends his days hurling himself against our bare window.

We say our, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your house now.

Our beloved dog was buried over there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; along with his chew toys and bones.

And at night our kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; laughter carries through the courtyard of the home (though they moved out some years ago).

And this large oak â&#x20AC;&#x201D; what can we say?

Old limbs keep falling even when no wind stirs. The tree is gone. We sold because we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t chop it down, and still we hear the woodpecker crazed as the leaves turn brown. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Helen Pruitt Wallace

APRIL 2016

bay

19

t <

" < $ $" < ! $

$ " < ! " "

! "

found it! (online)

IT’S A PINK + BLUE PANTONE WORLD The Pantone Color Institute, founded in the 1950s, is considered the authority on color communication and technology. It has chosen the “Color of the Year” since 2000. Pantone experts study trends and movements around the world to determine which colors reflect the current spirit of the times. These colors inspire designers everywhere.

Vase from the workshop of Allocay, France ($969).

Vintage 1970s with crackle glaze.

Workshop marked.

1stdibs.com (Founded in 2001, 1stdibs features rare objects and antiques.)

This year the colors are “Rose Quartz” and “Serenity.”

At first glance, the pastel pink and baby blue remind us of newborns, baby showers and children’s rooms. But the choices become clear when we read the Pantone explanation. It states, “As consumers seek mindfulness and well-being as an antidote to modern day stresses, welcoming colors that psychologically fulfill our yearning for reassurance and security are becoming more prominent. Rose Quartz and Serenity demonstrate an inherent balance between a warmer embracing rose tone and the cooler tranquil blue, reflecting connection and wellness as well as a soothing sense of order and peace.”

Frida pink jeweled leather collar with chain lead ($500).

For the fashionable doggie, this Italian-made leather and solid brass collar and chain are a must in any canine wardrobe. neimanmarcus.com

When we went hunting for Rose Quartz and Serenity in the world of online shopping, we found a variety of beautiful home items that reflect the 2016 Pantone colors. Happy armchair shopping!

—Pegie Stark

22 bay

APRIL 2016

Mike & Ally rose quartz vanity accessories, soap dish, tissue box holder, vanity tray, pump dispenser and wastebasket ($625 to $1,750).

Dress up your vanity with the real thing — rose quartz from South Africa. horchow.com

Midcentury flower burst mirror with pink glass petals ($2,098).

A beautiful find from the 1960s.

Made in Spain, 24 inches in diameter.

1stdibs.com

UMA Sound Lantern ($479).

Be a cozy camper with this lantern that doubles as a speaker. Control the volume by touch.

Bluetooth capability. momastore.org Tannenwald i framed print by Gustav Klimt, 1901 ($185).

Klimt, known for his paintings with gold leaf, like The Kiss, creates a rich forest with tones of pink and blue. Mounted, laminated, ash wood frame. momastore.org

APRIL 2016

bay

23

(# ( ( ") (- # ( $ )$( ) ( # )$ $() - # )$ # # ( $ ) ( ( #

# % (! $ (# * #( # + # # )$ $ ( # + $ # $ ) + ( # # * #$ )( # ( ( + ( + ( # # $ ( + ( # * ( $ #* ( ( # ( ) (- ) )$ ( ) (#-$ & (- # #

- $ # ,# ( ! (

Khan faux-fur pillows ($125).

Get all toasty with a faux Tibetan pink lamb’s hair pillow. horchow.com Daum Songe sculpture ($4,785).

Cast a pink aura indoors or out with this gorgeous, lead crystal figure.

Approximately 12.25 inches high. neimanmarcus.com

Aqua glass disc chandelier ($3,250).

Create a cool blue glow in your dining room or bedroom or any room with this chandelier that features handmade glass discs.

30 inches high. piecesinc.com

Louise Bourgeois Blue Circles plate ($55).

Third Drawer Down Studio, 2014.

Inspired by pages from a fabric scrapbook of artist Louise Bourgeois, Ode à l’oubli , in 2002. momastore.org

Bric’s Life pearl pink luggage duffel ($515), luggage spinner ($800).

Never lose your way in that sea of black on the luggage belt again. These pink canvas and leather pieces will stand out with understated elegance. horchow.com Lucite and pink hide stool ($2,200).

Have a seat. A pink seat that is, on this unusual cowhide and lucite stool.

18 inches high. piecesinc.com

26 bay

APRIL 2016

3

'$ <0+' $5 +'. +( 171# 2>#2212 /+)/ ( ; +'. +( 171#1>*#, >>

$'

( 0 "+( 5 (5 . +( 171#2 #661>

0 ) <: += ( ) !( $'. +( 171# *# , 7

9 9 ) ( !!$ . +( 171# 16#7171 ( !!$ 9 ) ( !!$ . +( 171#6 #72

5/ > !( $'. +( 171#622#7 >

! ) " ) 0+)/ '5+/0. +( 171#76*# 2 > 08 " ) 0+)/ '5+/0. +( 171# 2># 6

#& %8'$ / =$ /, !( $'. +( 171# >6#7761 8'$ 5/ ./ < 0 !( $'. +( 171#1 6#7 6 / <

' /$ 9 / & !( $'. +( 171#2 ,#6 ,

- 55$ - 55$" '-$). +( 171# 6 #>*66

! !! # ! ' $0 5 (0-. +( ( 55 5 (0-. +( 171# ># > 6

5<' / %% ) 5" =. +( 171# 7# *1

%! %

"/$0 :$)!5 (. +( 171# 1,#66>>

% /$'<)/80" / ( ;.) 5 ,6#*71#21* / & "/80" / ( ;.) 5 ,6#*,1#

0- $ ' ! )5/ !( $'. +( 171#62 #,>>1

"+( 0 ) 5" . +( 171#6 #*,*,

' ;(/ '5< !( $'. +( 171#2 1# >*

"

' )) 5$0 05. +( ,6#6>*#7 >>

9 ))5 ( !( $'. +( 171# ,>#>72

$0$5 +8/ ) : : 0$5 5

- 8'5/ ;' / / ( ;.) 5 171# , # >17

&#! &$" !

AC TI VE SO

LD

660 Bay Laurel Ct NE - Offered for $839,900 Placido Bayou – Custom Built Waterfront Home in the Estates Section with Access to Tampa Bay - Dock and Lift. Spectacular Kitchen Opens to Family Room with Fireplace. Downstairs Master Suite. Covered, Screened Lanai. Located on a Quiet Cul de Sac Street.

4 BR, 3 BA, 2,698 Sq Ft, 3 CG, Pool Contact JJ and the Z at 727-344-9191 (Julie Jones or Kathryn Krayer-Zimring)

LUXELIST JULIE

–

F E AT U R E D

JONES

,

727-344-9191

AGENTS

K AT H RY N HOMES

-

JJ

KRAYER

AND

THE

Z

ZIMRING

@JJANDTHEZ.COM

ST PETERSBURG

TREASURE ISLAND

TIERRA VERDE

727-896-1800

727-397-1800

727-867-3100

1833 Brightwaters Blvd NE - Last Offered for $3,295,000 Live the Florida Waterfront Life in Style, Open Water Views of Tampa Bay, Exceptional Indoor and Outdoor Entertaining Space. Kitchen has Waterfront Views and Opens to a Large Family Room. Outdoor Features Gazebo with Pizza Oven, Pool & Spa. Dock with 2 Lifts.

5 BR, 4.5 BA, 5,601 Sq Ft, 3 CG Contact JJ and the Z at 727-344-9191 (Julie Jones or Kathryn Krayer-Zimring)

Find Your Paradise

7226 Demens Dr S - Offered for $459,000 Located in the “Pink Streets” at the Southern-Most Tip of St. Petersburg’s Pinellas Point. This Completely Renovated Home Features Two Master Suites. Private Pool is Surrounded by Tropical Landscape. The Central Kitchen Features Granite Tops, Stainless Appliances and Recessed Lighting with French Doors to the Backyard.

3 BR, 3 BA, 2,834 Sq Ft, 1 CG, Pool Contact JJ and the Z at 727-344-9191 (Julie Jones or Kathryn Krayer-Zimring)

SO

SO

LD

116 14th Ave NE - Offered for $749,000 True Gem in Old NE. Updated Kitchen, Backyard is a True Oasis with Mature Landscaping and an In Ground Pool and Jacuzzi.

All Bedrooms are Upstairs, Large Master Suite has Private Balcony, Bath and Walk in Closets. Original Features Throughout add to the Charm and Appeal of this Historic Home.

3 BR, 2.5 BA, 2,307 Sq Ft, 2 CG, Pool Contact JJ and the Z at 727-344-9191 (Julie Jones or Kathryn Krayer-Zimring)

P R O P E RT I E S

AC TI VE

F E AT U R E D

LD

–

AC TI VE

L U X E L I S T

556 21st Ave NE - Last Offered for $1,270,000 Estate Home on a Double Lot in Old NE. Classic Appeal with Modern Updates. First level master suite with Separate Sitting Room, High Ceiling, Italian Marble Tiled Bath. Tropical Paradise Backyard and Resort Style Pool.

5 BR, + Office 4.5 BA, Bonus Room, 3,968 Sq Ft, 2 CG, Pool Contact JJ and the Z at 727-344-9191 (Julie Jones or Kathryn Krayer-Zimring)

2032 Massachusetts Ave NE - Last Offered for $929,900 Venetian Isles Waterfront Family home with room to Spread Out and Entertain! Oversized 2nd Level Master Suite. Spacious, Open Living Spaces. Panoramic Balcony Overlooks the Large Pool and Walk Around Dock with Protected & Deep Water Access.

5 BR, 4 BA, 3,159 Sq Ft, 2 CG, Pool Contact JJ and the Z at 727-344-9191 (Julie Jones or Kathryn Krayer-Zimring)

% 8;4 4 8 8$%5 %(-4 55%< % 44 4 $+( = ' +( 5 ?+; =%8$ 5= -%)# 58 %4 5 ) 9,AA + ' 4# ;8% ;' ) #4 %+;5 4++(5 -';5 ,!AA '+= 4 ' < ' +(-' 8 '? 8%' 8+ +((+ 8 ' 8 45 ) '' ?+;4 = 8 4 8+?5. ;- 4 5%@ -++' %) -4%< 8 & ? 4 . ' $' ) # #11

#)% % )8 % 44 4 $+( =%8$ 4 8$%)# +- ) = 8 4 <% =5 5- 4&'%)# -++' ) ' 4# + &. 9*AA + ';>;4? = ''5 + =%) +=5 5+ 4%)# %'%)#5 $ 35 '%#$8 &%8 $ ) #4 ) )8 48 %)%)# 4 5 +8$ %)5% ) +;8. . ' " / !! 0$- " !! + ( $' % 1 111&

$ 4++( 4%)#5 5- 8 ;' 4 = 8 4 <% =5. 4 +--+48;)%8? +4 +8$ -4+8 8 + & # ) +- ) = 8 4 <% =5. 9 4++(5 9 8$4++(5 =%8$ 4%#$8 +- ) '++4 -' ) '' # 8$ 4 4+;) 8$ 5- 4&'%)# -++' ) - < & +4 +;8 ++4 '%<%)# ) = 8 $%)# 8$ 5;)5 8. (- '? ( %)8 %) . # # % ...

$( - + ( # $$ ( ( $ - ( # ( $ # - (# ( ( - ( ## ( * $ # #

( # ,$ * # $ ( * $ ( % # $ & % ( # $ %% ) " ( ! * *$

, ,11 111&

( $ $(

( & 8$%5 $+( 5- 8 ;' 4. +; $ < ) < 4 5 ) 4++(5 =%8$ = 8 4 <% =5 '%& 8$%5. 5 ) $8 +;)84? '; . ,9 8 +) 8$ = 8 4 "/ 9.! + % . $ ( 58 4 5;%8 %5 $;# =%8$ ) )+4(+;5 = '& %) '+5 8. %#$8 %) 4+)8 + 8$ $;# + & %5 =$ 4 8$ + 85 #+ ? +'-$%)5 -' ?. +85 + 1 +);5 5- 2 +--+48;)%8?. , :** AAA.

6AA AAA. : 4++( : 8$ $+( =%8$ ) 4'? ,"AA 0. 8. %#$ +'%5$ 44 @@+ '++45 %) < 4? 4++(. ;# -+4 $ 8+)5 + '( 4 5 ) '+= ( %)8 ) ) ? 4 . +)38 5- ) ?+;4 4 8%( =+4&%)# 5- ) %8 1 3. $ $ '% = %85 8 ) %) 4 % '? +4 ' -4% 8 =+)38 ' 58. +(%)# 5++).

8$ %458 8+ 5 %8

#

! ! % " %& !% %(

% " % "

"&!! % &" ! %

" % &! ' ' " % %

$ * * % / * 1 * $

* $ $! $ * $ * $ 1 -$ %% * % $ * * 1 $*1 * !$ . 1 1 -$ / * * -%* 2 1 -$ / * -$ 0#- % * *$ % ! $ / * * ! $ * / % * % %% $*%"

% $( * *2. % $! $ * . *% $ . * $* % 1 -$ . * ! % * * -% * * $ ! * " $ &,& + &'

!

AT HOME

The magic of MEDITERRANEAN

They all did their research and took care of this home like it was their own.

The house had great bones, it just needed updating.”

DR. NATHALIA JEFFREY-FORT, referring to the contractor and interior decorator who helped renovate her home

STORY BY KATHY SAUNDERS PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES BORCHUCK

D

r. Nathalia Jeffrey-Fort gets giddy when she opens the small cupboard next to the back door of her Crescent Lake home.

“This is where they used to deliver milk,” she said, envisioning the early rituals in the 1920s Mediterranean estate.

When she found the home in 2007, Jeffrey-Fort was more interested in its oversized garage than the living space.

38 bay

APRIL 2016

“All my husband wanted was a three-car garage so he had room to park the cars inside and have storage space,” said the dentist and mother of two. After 10 years of daily commuting from Safety Harbor to St. Petersburg for work and school, she was tired of the drive. Before moving to Pinellas, she and her husband, oral surgeon Kenyon Fort, had a commuter marriage while she closed her dental practice in Jamaica, N.Y. “I was just so done with commuting,” she said.

The couple bought a home near Crescent Lake to live in while they built one with a large garage on two lots in the Pasadena Yacht & Country Club.

Drs. Kenyon Fort and Nathalia Jeffrey-Fort renovated a sprawling Mediterranean home in the Crescent Lake neighborhood of St. Petersburg where they live with their teenagers, Natalie and Kofi.

But Jeffrey-Fort got comfortable living close to work and being able to get her children to school in less than 10 minutes.

“Crescent Lake is a great neighborhood and I was like — I really don’t want to move from here.” One morning, she took a new route to her Family Dental Boutique on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street N. That’s when she spotted the garage of her husband’s dreams.

“This was an old, outdated, dilapidated monstrosity — but it had the garage,” she said. Originally, the house wasn’t for sale. But, by the time she told her husband about it, he found the property had been listed.

The approximately 6,000-square-foot home sits among four lots, just a couple of blocks from the lake.

With the help of Worley Contracting Inc. and interior designer Carol Smith, the Forts did a complete reno-

vation of the home and property, working carefully to preserve some of the historical elements. Along with central air conditioning, new wiring and updated plumbing, the home needed a new kitchen and several bathrooms. During the nine-month construction project, the builder moved walls, added closets and created upstairs bathrooms and bedrooms.

“They all did their research and took care of this home like it was their own,” said Jeffrey-Fort. “The house had great bones, it just needed updating.”

The original wood floors were refinished as were the sprawling, overhead beams made of pecky cypress.

Skilled artisans were able to restore many of the original light fixtures and all of the solid wooden doors, knobs and keyhole latches. The other pieces were selected to complement the home’s original craftsmanship.

APRIL 2016

bay 39

The colossal chandelier hanging in the formal living room was a piece plucked from the garage of the head foreman.

“It was there for 20 years and it’s perfect here,” said Jeffrey-Fort.

Designers were careful to construct a modern kitchen while incorporating subtle touches of the past. They added decorative tiles on floors and walls throughout the house to match the preserved Mayan tiles lining the stairs and fireplace.

It’s the even smaller details, though, that excite Jeffrey-Fort. She points to the ornate fruit sculptured in the urn posted in front of the house and the statue of an owl perched near the back yard and the pool that was added in the 1980s.

She admires the original cast-iron tub now in her daughter’s bathroom and the small shelving units cleverly fashioned into nooks that used to house the home’s radiators.

“This house used to have a fire escape, too,” she said, pointing to a spot inside a closet where the exit was sealed.

The Forts have a framed vintage postcard of their home that a friend found at an antique store in Boston.

In the 1920s, several area homes accented with tropical flora were photographed so visitors could send their friends a glimpse of exotic Florida.

Although the house was built for a single family, it was temporarily converted into a boarding house for baseball players headquartered at nearby Crescent Lake Field, now Huggins-Stengel Field.

Each room was an apartment and the current master bedroom used to have its own kitchen, according to Jeffrey-Fort. The main house became a family home again in 1972.

Since restoring the property, the Forts have hosted a family wedding reception and opened the property for two Spanish television commercials filmed for Bright House Networks.

Another original guesthouse sits on the back of the property and was used as the construction office during renovations.

“I still have to figure out what to do with that,” said Jeffrey-Fort. “It’s another part of history.”

40 bay

APRIL 2016

Designers added decorative tiles on floors and walls throughout the house to match the preserved Mayan tiles lining the stairs and fireplace, at left.

The kitchen was remodeled, top left, and artisans restored the solid-wood doors, knobs and keyhole latches, left. Decorative pieces were chosen to complement the original craftsmanship.

A vintage postcard shows the Fort home in the 1920s.

APRIL 2016

bay

41

AT HOME

Beach MODERN

BY KATHY SAUNDERS PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN PENDYGRAFT

C

Carolyn and Virgil Ritacca spent three years building their ultramodern beach dream house in Pass-a-Grille.

At top, the view from the second floor to the marble-floored living area.

At left, the four-story home overlooks the beach and the Gulf of Mexico.

arolyn Ritacca likes to refer to her home as “a little beach house.” She allows the approximately 7,000square-foot home is large in stature, but it’s intimate in nature.

Ritacca and her husband, Virgil, a former developer, moved into the quaint Pass-a-Grille neighborhood 16 years ago, after spending three years building their dream house.

With a wide-open view of the beach, the ultramodern home is nestled among a community of beach bungalows, momand-pop motels and a splattering of Mediterranean and Key West-style homes.

Moving from a very traditional home in the Chicago suburbs, Ritacca knew exactly what she wanted to have in her contemporary, beachfront abode. She took much of her inspiration from a house she had admired in her former Lake Forest neighborhood. “The windows opened into the ground, so the whole house became part of the forest,” said Ritacca.

APRIL 2016

bay

45

An acrylic sculpture by Michael Wilkinson accents the master bedroom.

At right, a glass staircase winds around a glass-enclosed elevator in the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entryway.

46 bay

APRIL 2016

Developer Mike Dedmore of Naples and local designer Sandra Chancey took that concept from the woods to the waterfront for the Ritaccas. Their home is four stories of glass windows and pointed corners called “sea wings” that provide privacy from the house next door. All of the windows are tinted azure on the outside to protect from the direct sunlight bouncing off the white sand.

The front door is a set of colorful, leaded glass panels created by artisans from a photo Ritacca took of the sea oats along St. Pete Beach.

Once inside, guests can take the all-glass elevator or clear, glass spiral staircase down to the media room or upstairs to the marble-floored family room and kitchen.

The main room is one of Ritacca’s favorites for its use of space and openness.

“I didn’t want it to be chopped up,” she said. The glass theme allows unobstructed views of the beach from every room of the house. Even the doors to the bedrooms are glass, with hidden electric shades for privacy after dark.

Floor-to-ceiling glass affords a wide-open beach view in the living room.

At left, a painting by Hunt Slonem in the dining room.

APRIL 2016

bay

47

I run for the sunset no matter where I am in the house.â&#x20AC;?

CAROLYN RITACCA, explaining why glass and openness are important elements of her dream house

A photograph Carolyn took of sea oats on St. Pete Beach provided inspiration for these custom-made stained glass front doors.

At left, a view of the lap pool and hot tub from the balcony of the third-floor guest bedroom.

APRIL 2016

bay 49

The dining room also offers an unobstructed beach view.

That transparency is important to Ritacca because she hardly ever misses a sunset.

“I run for the sunset no matter where I am in the house,” she said.

The marble from the island dividing the kitchen and seating areas is carried over to an adjacent, two-story wall featuring a sleek, flat-front fireplace. Ritacca has two chairs and footstools just inches from the fireplace, adding a touch of coziness to the modern motif.

The kitchen cabinets were imported from Japan and have crispness with smooth textures. During construction, Ritacca said she kept a stack of magazine clippings with photos of what she wanted for the house. She traveled to New York and bought all of the furnishings in one day, including a leafy metal chandelier in the center of the entryway. “We call it the artichoke,” she said.

The four bedrooms are complete with private bathrooms, marble countertops and unique touch-pad light-

ing. Bedroom furnishings have that same, slightly oriental facade with clean lines and elegant simplicity.

Closets are built into the curved walls of the master bathroom and lined with cedar. Even the tub in the center of the master bathroom has a view of the Gulf of Mexico.

The bed in the room next to the master suite is made with movable headrests so guests can sit up and view the beach or lie flat and enjoy the soothing sound of the waves.

Ritacca hired a pool designer from California to build a small lap pool and garden spa behind the house with their own unique palette of blue tiles.

“We wanted it to be its own entity,” she said of the pool area.

While the home has all of the elements of Ritacca’s contemporary dream house, it also is the homestead for their four grown children and six grandchildren.

“It’s our gathering place,” said Ritacca. “We love it.”

The Ritaccas refer to their metal entryway chandelier as “the artichoke.”

At left, the home’s clean lines and elegant simplicity continue in the master suite.

APRIL 2016

bay

51

#LiveAmplified

CLEARWATER BEACH

#1 IN THE U.S.

BY TRIPADVISOR IN 2016.

We’ve got 35 miles of the most awesome white-sand playgrounds in the country—including Clearwater Beach, named #1 and St. Pete Beach, named #4 by TripAdvisor in 2016. And there’s plenty more, from vibrant arts to stellar dining, pulsing nightlife and an up-and-coming craft beer scene. Catch all the amped-up fun on America’s Best Beaches.

Text LIVEAMPED to 313131 for a chance to win a BEACH GETAWAY. Or visit LiveAmplified.com.

70878 • VSPC • Tampa Bay Times - Bay Magazine • Trim: 10” x 11” (LIVE: 9.25” x 10.25”) • 4C • gew • V1-3/7/16; V2-3/16/16_BF

AT HOME

BUNGALOW beauty

BY KATHERINE SNOW SMITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN PENDYGRAFT

L

aura Kipphut blames the wine cooler. Or perhaps she thanks it. “That was the start of the whole renovation. My husband retired and said he wanted a wine cooler and an office,” she recounted standing next to a built-in wine cooler in the kitchen of her 1915 South Tampa bungalow.

Adding the cooler meant reworking the kitchen. And if they were going to do that, then maybe they should put new floors in here or replace a railing there. About the same time

Kipphut spoke with a neighbor who had just finished a renovation of her historic home.

“She said everything was unified and that sounded so good to me,” she recalled.

When the Kipphuts bought the home 21 years ago they did some refurbishing but weren’t ready to do everything, with one son in high school and another in college.

Then 18 months ago they decided to do all that was needed. Some baseboards were 4 inches high, some 8 inches. There were five different textures on the walls including stucco, beadboard and brick. The floors were so old they couldn’t be refinished any more.

Mike and Laura Kipphut had windows replaced and reglazed as part of the extensive renovation to their 1915 bungalow in South Tampa, shown on opposite page.

APRIL 2016

bay

55

The Kipphuts moved this favored stained glass door to a more prominent spot in the sun-room .

Opposite page, muted colors and clean lines have a calming effect in a guest bedroom.

Laura Kipphut and her husband, Mike, former CFO of Sykes Enterprises, lived in their carriage house for nine months during the renovation. It was well worth it.

The kitchen is now accented with new brick columns built of 100-year-old brick. The mud room became a breakfast nook. A wall came down turning a narrow, dark hallway into added space and light.

Kipphut always loved the swinging leaded glass door that led from the kitchen to the dining room and the stained glass door to the mudroom. Apparently they were an anniversary present from one of the previous owners to his wife.

She wanted to spread the beauty outside of the kitchen, so the stained glass door was moved to the sun-room.

Elsewhere in the house ceilings were raised. Woodwork was refurbished. New tiles went into a hall bathroom. They are both polished and honed, giving the basket weave pattern a sparkle. Windows were replaced and reglazed.

“Because we are in a historic district we can’t add a window or take out a window,” Kipphut said. “I was president of Hyde Park Preservation at one time so I kind of have to follow the rules.”

Aside from the laundry closet, which she calls her “pride and joy” with its stainless steel wall tiles, built-in hanging rack and drawers, Kipphut thinks her husband’s office is her favorite room.

“It’s like a tree house,” she said, standing in the upstairs room with three walls of consecutive windows.

She also loves the sun-room, where they often eat dinner, can see the water and watch the action on Bayshore Boulevard without hearing the traffic.

As you can tell I love beige but I really went out on a limb and got lavender in here.â&#x20AC;?

LAURA KIPPHUT

APRIL 2016

bay

57

Beyond the structure of the bungalow, it’s the things inside that mean the most. The round dining room table made out of old wood from England. A vintage, wooden model of a sculling boat hangs on the wall of the cozy den.

She found it in a corner at Schiller’s Architectural and Design Salvage and framed it in a shadow box. (Kipphut swears by Frame Factory and Gallery.)

Three framed letters hang over the guest room bed.

They are correspondence from an uncle who lived in South America in the 1880s to her mother or grandmother. She found them in a chest belonging to her 92-year-old mom.

Kipphut favors independently owned local stores, such as Red Herring, Chez Orleans, Marketplace and Magnolia.

“I really enjoy all the local shopkeepers,” she said. “I love my house because when I walk through, I look at all my belongings and remember who I was with when I bought them.”

At top, a swinging leaded glass door separates the dining room and the kitchen of the historic bungalow, which features 100-year-old brick, above.

At left, a letter from the 1880s that Laura Kipphut found in a chest belonging to her 92-year-old mother.

58 bay

APRIL 2016

1 .))&/

' # ' "). / %).# 7%% ' 5 " % 4"/ 5 *(( ===

)% : %% '$ . /# '4# % % /4 4 . " 6 ==(*5 )' )% : %% '$ . )& /, )&

& ! * ! # * , ( +&! ! !, * & ! ! & ! !&, ! ! & , (! ! & $' * # & # # , ( & (, !# * ! * * ! ! ) *# & ! & " * ! ) & ) *# , ( ! ! & & (# & , & (# & & * ! ! ## , (

,

060, *,( ** *5,116,*1*= 060, 060,

6, *** 060,

5,556= 060, 6*,5566

0,== = *5,(00,5 == *5,(16,=15* 060,0 *,50== *5,6 5,6

060,51=,1(60 060,5 *,65 060, 66,(*** *5,6 1,1 15 " +.)+ .4< #' ).& 4#)' " . #' #/ .#9 .)& 9 .#)7/ /)7. / 4" 4 & < #' %7 74 ')4 %#&#4 4) )7'4< . ). / ' 4" 7%4#+% #/4#'! .9# ' #4 & < #' %7 ++.);#& 4#)'/, %4")7!" 4" #' ).& 4#)' #/ %# 9 4) 7. 4 #4 #/ ')4 : .. '4 ' <)7 /")7% ')4 . %< 7+)' #4 :#4")74 + ./)' % 9 .# 4#)', 6=*1 )% : %% '$ . % /4 4

, %% #!"4/ / .9 , )% : %% '$ . % /4 4

7%%< /7++).4/ 4" +.#' #+% / ) 4" #. )7/#'! 4 ' 4" -7 % ++).47'#4< 4, + . 4 < /7 /# # .< )

, )% : %% '$ . 4" )% : %% '$ . %)!) )% : %% '$ . . 9# :/ '4 .' 4#)' % ' 4" . 9# :/ %)!) . . !#/4 . ' 7'. !#/4 . / .9# & .$/ ):' < )% : %% '$ . % /4 4

, *6=1 852*1

-! -A AA 9 AA

( 3 &+%* :3 +2 6# "2 * +. *%*" + 6# *6 2 +2 3% * 26 %* 6# 2/ (" (($ . (6 (( 2> + 3% * 26/ #2+:"# *" "%*" . 2 +2) * 3 36+2>6 ((%*" 26$) '%*" 6%;%6% 3 " ) 3 )+*362 6%+*3 * " (( 2> ":% 3 ;%3%6+23 + (( " 3 * =. 2% * 6# . :(6:2 ( 62 %6%+*3 + 3% 3 < (( 3 *&+> ; 2% 6> + ++ 3 6# 6 <%(( + 2 :(%* 2> 6+:2 + 3% / :..+26 +2 6# +)):*%6> ( 2 6%+* %3 .2+;% > :( + 36 +)):*%6> +:* 6%+* (6# * " ) *6 '3 % 6# ; *: * *' + ) 2% /

1

#%3 =#% %6%+* 6:2 3 ) "*% % *6 <+2'3 + 26 %* (: %*" 3%(; 2 %*( % ) 6 ( <+2' =0:%3%6 ) *:3 2%.63 2+ ; (; 63 (:36 2$. %*6 2 )% 3 * )+2 + 2%*" <%* +< %*6+ ) *> % 2 *6 63 + 6# >* )% * +).( = 26%36% 62 %6%+*3 + 6# 3( )% <+2( /

9A #%3 =#% %6%+* =.(+2 3 #+< 8@6# *6:2> %2 :3 3 + 36 2* * 36 2* :2+. =.2 33 6# %2 362+*" %* %;% : ( % *6%6% 3 %* .2%*6/

+2 6%) 3 .( 3 ;%3%6 2%*"(%*"/+2" ( > " ) *&+> " (( 2> 6%;%6> +2 &+%* * 26$) '%*" .2+"2 )/

< 3 +2" *%? > 6#

:3 :) + %* 263 +36+*/ :..+26 +2 6#%3 =#% %6%+* < 3 .2+;% %* . 26 > 2 3+6 +:*6> +:2%36 ; (+.) *6 = 2 ; *: 3 '3 % 6# ; *: 6# 26#:2 / * (( / 2%*" * +<) *6 * 6# %((% ) / * 2% ( > +:* 6%+* * +<) *6/

!

6 ,@

7 49 9

$'$ ( % ( $ ( # #$ ( & # # # $ # ( # # # ( & # % # ( # # ( ! ))) $ # % # #$ # $ # $ # # # $ ( # & #

% # $ $ & # # # # # # # & # ( # # # #$ ( # & # # ( #& # (

% # # ' $# % SJ½GI ERH XVSTL] VSSQ 7EJIP] TIVGLIH SR E VEVI X[S EGVI PSX ½JX] JIIX EFSZI 'PIEV[EXIV ,EVFSV XLI XIVVEGIH & # # & # # $ # # # & % # $ ( $ # # # # # # #( ( ' IRLERGIH XS MRGPYHI XLI EHNEGIRX 2SVXL ERH 7SYXL TVSTIVXMIW IEGL [MXL MXW S[R GLEVQMRK VIWMHIRGI ERH TSSP (69-( 6( 7 '0)%6;%8)6 3JJIVIH EX

AT HOME

62 bay

APRIL 2016

COLONIAL restoration STORY BY ROBBYN MITCHELL PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN PENDYGRAFT

T

he house on the corner — the one they would ogle during their evening walks — was just too beautiful to be ignored by Kim Cromwell and Kath Cote.

A 4,674-square-foot, two-story brick Colonial home with up-lit palm trees, antique glass windows and Cuban tile on the porch looked like a dream to the women who had come to St. Petersburg to visit family and friends in 2009 and never wanted to leave.

“We stalked the house a bit and when the post went up without a sign we said, ‘Oh my god, they are going to sell it.

We’ve got to get it,’ ” said Cote, 67, a retired technology CEO who was living a few streets over with Cromwell at the time.

Kath Cote and Kim Cromwell at home with theirYorkshire terrier, Kasey.

At left, the couple made several changes during renovation in keeping with the original leaded glass motif, including adding a glass fixture made by Grand Central Stained Glass on the stairway railing.

APRIL 2016

bay 63

With a little prodding, they got inside the home before it was on the market and found the house built in 1926 in remarkable condition.

“The tiles in the bathroom and on the porch were from the original house,” explained Cromwell, 56, a retired human resources executive. “This house only had eight owners. It just felt loved.”

Now Cromwell, Cote and their 10-year-old Yorkshire terrier, Kasey, love it, too.

They spend days sitting in their renovated sun-room taking in the light in their two favorite soft blue leather chairs, the only chairs with the posterior grooves from use.

Almost every room has a painting on its white walls and most of the paintings are of homes, making the house a study in comfort. From a massive John Clayton canvas of the rooftops of Provincetown in Cape Cod, Mass., where the women live four months out of the year, to the small mosaics from local artist Hilda Neily, Cromwell is unintentionally drawn to the beauty of dwellings, particularly ones with a hint of history.

“I didn’t even notice that about myself,” she said. “But I guess it’s true. I should paint the rooftops from this room (on the second floor). We’ve got a beautiful view of rooftops all our own.”

Preserving that beauty and history while making the space comfortable for themselves was priority one for Cromwell and Cote.

In April 2014, the women closed on the Historic Old Northeast property and began a seven-month renovation project to turn a dream house into their dream home.

It wouldn’t take much, according to them. The house had excellent bones.

64 bay

APRIL 2016

On the front door and the surrounding windows, the original owners used leaded glass, giving the entryway a feeling of being transported through time. Cote said they reinstalled the original glass over regulation hurricane glass to maintain that feeling.

Following the original architect’s lead, they used the leaded glass motif to craft several new windows throughout the home, including a brand new piece on the stairwell wall courtesy of Grand Central Stained Glass & Graphics in St. Petersburg. The local glass company also fashioned matching stained glass panels for one of the most unique features of the home — an electric lamp built at the base of the wrought-iron railing on the stairs.

Commitment to continuity even drove Cote and Cromwell to renovate the half bath underneath the stairs, against the advice of plumbers who claimed the space too tight to be refitted. The “Erna” bathroom, named after Cromwell’s mother, houses a portrait of her mother and framed New York Times photo of Erna taking the census of Albert Einstein.

The master bedroom was crafted out of two bedrooms and a narrow bath. It has been transformed into a master suite with a spacious master bath and walk-in shower, and a large walk-in closet.

Green and orange Cuban tiles used on the screenedin porch and the front of the home didn’t quite match the ornate, heavy tiles with Mayan-inspired designs around the fireplace in the living room.

Cromwell wrote to the Tile Heritage Foundation in California to identify the 1-inch-thick panels but her answer came from much closer. The St. Petersburg Museum of History told her that her “Mayan” tiles came from a local company sprung up before the Great Depression that made Spanish mosaic tiles.

Cote felt the design was incongruous, so the women decided to donate the tiles to the history museum and replace them with green marble to better coordinate with the other Cuban tiles’ theme.

They preserved much of the original tile in all the bathrooms.

However, the coup de grace is the master bedroom and bathroom suite on the second level. What was once two bedrooms and a narrow bath has been transformed via privacy wall into a master suite. It has an open layout with views of their quiet street, a large master bath with walkin shower and replica tile to match the historic tiles in the other lavatories. A walk-in closet was once a full bedroom.

It was one more extra step to keeping the original feel of the house but make it their own, Cote explained.

“We wanted to give our guests some privacy, and ourselves, too,” she said.

Paintings by New York artist Nick Patten feature imbedded paintings of Provincetown, Mass., landmarks.

At top left, new appliances were added to the sleek, marble kitchen.

APRIL 2016

bay

65

' # & $& #!

# ( & $ #&

$&*

3 1 &( -, 5, 8% / /'' , / '/ 6 1 = ===

! "

#

" "

$& & # $

&# $& ) &

3 , 1 =7 -, 5, 8% / /'' , / '/ 6 2 = ===

# " ! ! " !$ ! ! #

!

"

##

# #

#

( & ) & ) &" & #$ '#

&

/ 5 5 " % 77% #''/ / 0 % 58/ 0 $ 00 9 167= 0- 5 ' #8;8/ '80 # 9 % / * %5 / #''/+ # / 05 9 # # % ':%5':%, 0: ) % 5 : : ## ' #''/ 5' # % # 00 # 9 /0 $ # 0 ' % '$) / #< $ ! 05 ) %'/ $ 9 :0 ' $) <, / '/ & ===,

#80 #< # % 0 ) / 9 : < : # '$ 0 <'8 5' 5 0 2=7 0- 5 /''$ 5 /'%5 05 5 ' 8% '$$'% / % $ %5 % 05 % 5 '%, ) 5 8# / '8/$ 5 " 5 %, '$$ % % $ 05 / 08 5 , $$ %0 / 5 /''$ ' /0 8#'80 9 :0 ' 5 8# , / '/ 6 & ===,

& # $

( ) $ #

58 5 '% '/% / #'5 '% -8 5 0 05/ 5 % % ; 5 % / 5 /'%5 #' 5 '% 5 0 :'% / 8# % 8% -8 /''$ 5 '$ 0 0) '80 ' 6 05') # 9 5'/ % 0 ) / 5 6 ) /5$ %5 '$)# ; : 5 ===3$5 % '$ )/' 8 % )'5 %5 # # %5 .0 " 5 % 58/ 0 05/ " % / % 5 '8%5 /0 % 0'$ 805'$ % 5/< ))# % 0 %5 / 0# % % 0 ) / 5 $8#5 # 9 # 0# % / " 05 /, 8 # ' % /'%5 # '% 0 # % 0 % :'' :'/" % / % ') % 0) 0 : 5 0: ) % 9 :0 ' 5 8# # / % ''/ '5 58 $8 $'/ , / '/ 7 & = ===,

' 5 % ; #80 9 5 ## 9 : 0# % 5 0 # 9 0 1&( 0- 5 05 5 # 9 /0 $ % %5 ') % : 5 / 9 :0 ' % < % # /: 5 / , ' / % 6= 5 '< / #' 5 % 05 / 0 058%% % : /'90" % # / 5': / % : % ':0 % = 5 : '9 / # '%< :3058%% % ) %'/ $ 9 :0, / '/ 7 7&& ===,

# $ ! $ " ! # $ $ !

AT HOME

The

WRIGHT house

BY KATHERINE SNOW SMITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES BORCHUCK

A

The DeGroot home, designed by architect Sanford Goldman, has vast expanses of windows and doors that let in light and air.

A spiral staircase leads to the second floor.

half century ago when he was a 30-year-old architect designing a Frank Lloyd Wright-style house on Tampa Bay, Sanford Goldman would sit on the grass near the tidal flats of Pinellas Point to sketch and think.

“The property was just so nice, I wanted to take advantage of all the trees. Bring the outside in. I designed the main part of the house to be upstairs so you have the best view,” Goldman, now 81, recalled on a recent visit to the home.

It is simple in some ways, made of just two materials, concrete and mahogany plywood. Three, if you count the clear heart redwood trim.

Yet it is complex, with numerous floor-to-ceiling glass doors, some 18 feet high, interior balconies, a spiral staircase, built-in furniture and banks of windows in various sizes. The entire first level has brick floors, a preventive measure in case of flooding.

“What I like most about it is being amongst all the trees.

It’s nice to have a real handmade thing,” said Dave DeGroot, who grew up in the home Goldman built for his parents and that he and his wife inhabit.

“It’s like living in a piece of furniture. The quality of the workmanship was so good back then,” said his wife, Barbara. “You feel like the keeper of the house. You want to preserve and protect it.”

It’s no coincidence the home encompasses many of Wright’s trademarks. Goldman studied with Wright in 1957 and 1958 at two of the famed architect’s homes, Taliesin East in Wisconsin and Taliesin West in Arizona.

APPRENTICE TO A LEGEND In his last year of architecture school at the University of Florida, Goldman sent Wright a letter asking if he could become an apprentice. He was invited for an interview during winter break.

“I was beside myself, this young kid meeting Frank Lloyd Wright. I brought my best work to show him,” Goldman recalled. “He said, ‘It’s not very good,’ and my heart sank, and then he took a breath and said, ‘Once you’re here you’ll really learn about architecture.’ I went from the lowest point to the highest point in about five seconds.”

Though Wright wanted him to start right away, Goldman explained he had to finish one more semester of school.

APRIL 2016

bay

69

St. Petersburg architect Sanford Goldman studied for two years under Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1950s. Goldmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time with the world-renowned Wright influenced his design of the DeGroot house in south St. Petersburg.

Dave and Barbara DeGroot now live in the house that was built for DeGrootâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents in the 1960s.

70 bay

APRIL 2016

“Mr. Wright — that’s what we called him — said: ‘You don’t need a college degree. I don’t have one,’ ” he recounted.

Goldman did finish, though, and then spent two years traveling between the sprawling Taliesin estates. Wright hosted about 40 apprentices at a time who built their own rustic sleeping quarters in the hills of the desert in Arizona and lived in a former boarding school on the Taliesin grounds in Wisconsin.

“It wasn’t like there was a class. It was learning through osmosis. There was no start time, no finish, no graduation,” Goldman said. “Whether we were doing repairs or drafting or whatever we were doing, I made it my business to be wherever (Wright) was.”

They had tea every day at 4:30 p.m. to talk, listen, question and challenge each other. Wright hosted a formal dinner each weekend.

While Goldman respected Wright immensely, he describes his personality as arrogant.

“I remember one time we were in Taliesin East and I was with Wright and a couple other apprentices, and the mail

carrier brought the mail,” Goldman recalled. “There was a Life magazine and there was an article on several architects including (Wright). He looked at it and the photos of the architects and said, ‘The pictures are all the same size.’

He thought his should have been bigger.”

The two estates now are owned and operated by Taliesin Preservation Inc. and are in the National Register of Historic Landmarks. They host reunions of apprentices every five years, and Goldman often goes.

EXCITING AND RESTFUL Goldman still appreciates the freedom Dave DeGroot’s parents gave him when he was creating their home.

“If someone would have said they want this here or this there or shown me pictures of how it had to be, it wouldn’t have worked,” he said. “It was nice because I was allowed to express myself. It’s like if you’re buying a piece of art, you don’t tell the artist how to paint it.”

The DeGroots’ son, William, built a few pieces of furniture that complement the home perfectly.

The DeGroot home has remained relatively unchanged since it was built in the 1960s. The kitchen, dining room, living room and two bedrooms are upstairs and have sweeping views of a nearby park. At left, a spiral staircase connects the first and second floors.

APRIL 2016

bay 71

It’s like living in a piece of furniture. The quality of the workmanship was so good back then. You feel like the keeper of the house. You want to preserve and protect it.”

BARBARA DEGROOT

Frank Lloyd Wright , left, Sanford Goldman in 1958.

Photograph courtesy of Sanford Goldman

An industrial engineer with T2theS Interior Design + Build firm in St. Petersburg, William DeGroot created the unusual wooden light fixtures at the new Souzou restaurant and much of the interior of Stillwaters Tavern, both in St. Petersburg.

“I think living in this house actually inspired him,” said his father, who like Barbara DeGroot has worked as a consultant in developing countries around the world.

In the southern neighborhoods of St. Petersburg, several of the 20 or so homes Goldman designed in the 1960s still exist, drawing second looks as they stand out among more traditional Florida architecture.

Goldman also designed the Hernando County government center and numerous schools throughout Florida.

They also included trademark features like glass walls and courtyards. He is currently designing a home for his daughter in Terra Ceia.

“What I want to do is make exciting ways for people to live that are restful, pleasant and enjoy nature … I have an attachment to all of my homes on some level. When I was younger it wasn’t as much because I was always on to the next thing,” Goldman recalled as the late afternoon sun fell on the DeGroot house. “The attachment is probably more so now.”

Times researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.

%% ! '!

(" ). )

' !$ ) ! ' * ( ! $ * $ ! $ !! ' ! $ !$

' $ ' !! !$ ! $ )

' $ ) ! ! $ ! $ %++ !$ ' $! ) ) $ $ $

&+ &+ " * $ !$ ' $!

!

, $ % * $ + % $ % $ + $% % ' $ + $ + $ %!

- $' %

% % $ %

$ %! $ % ' - $ %' $'%!

()

- '$ % $' ) - $ + ' + % ' ' + %) ' -

' ' $ * $% !!! % * $ * $ ' + + % ' $ %%! '#% ' %% + + !

"" )) )

") % $ % % * ) ")

%

% '' ! ''

$ ' ' $ '% ' $ $

%%

$ % % %' $' ' (.

')$ -%!

) . "1( 3 ) . "( . ) $( '

#0 # " ) " "' # * ( " //++ %+0+& !, ,0 0 ( " ). 1( .' " $ 1 ) 4 .1( 4 #5 $ ) (2 . " ) ( "

"##

AT HOME

Tampa & COUNTRY

The kitchen flows into the dining room, which adjoins the living room in Alex Sinkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Thonotosassa home. Above, Sink had the wood-frame home built with wrap-around porches.

APRIL 2016

bay

77

We came up here and Bill got out of the car and looked around.

There was moss on the trees and this nice lake.”

ALEX SINK

STORY BY KATHERINE SNOW SMITH PHOTOS BY EVE EDELHEIT

A

lex Sink grew up in a sprawling 1800s farmhouse in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Mount Airy, N.C. Her late husband, Bill McBride, was raised in Leesburg, when the small town known for its scenic lakes was laden with orange groves.

So 20 years ago when the couple found themselves with two small children and a dog in a South Tampa bungalow, they decided it was time to move.

“We both wanted more spreading-out room,” Sink recounted recently from her house at the end of a narrow country road in Thonotosassa.

They started looking for property and houses within driving distance of downtown Tampa, where she was a top executive for Bank of America and he was a managing partner with the Holland & Knight law firm.

“We would start in downtown Tampa and put the two babies in the back seat in their car seats and drive 30 minutes in different directions. We were intrigued with Plant City, but it was a little too far,” Sink said. Then someone suggested Lake Thonotosassa.

“We came up here and Bill got out of the car and looked around. There was moss on the trees and this nice lake,” Sink recalled.

It was the spot. Sink and McBride built their house in 1996 to mirror a traditional wood-frame Florida Cracker home, with wrap-around porches for catching the breeze and plenty of symmetrical windows for views of the lake.

The bright, airy house is designed for large gatherings.

The kitchen opens into the dining room, which opens onto to the large back porch lined with wooden rockers. The living room also opens to the porch and Lake Thonotosassa beyond that. There’s a small library to accommodate meetings and cozy nights of watching TV.

78 bay

APRIL 2016

“My mom always said you have to have a bedroom on the main floor,” Sink said, referring to the guest room off the two-story foyer.

When Sink’s mom taught her young daughter this, she was probably thinking of elderly homeowners and guests wanting to avoid stairs. Could she have predicted her daughter would become a leading political figure who would need a first-floor bedroom to serve as a green room for a presidential candidate? Sink’s guest room was just that when she hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton at her Thonotosassa home in December.

Another feature of the home that lends itself to large gatherings is the oversized carport. With craftsman-style wood columns and waist-high railings, along with a beadboard ceiling, it’s more like another room than a place to park cars. A screened porch between the carport and kitchen serves as a staging area for all kinds of entertaining.

“There’s a freezer on the porch. That reminds you of North Carolina,” Sink said with a laugh.

At top, a fireplace separates the living room and dining room.

Another nod to her North Carolina roots is the framed picture of the original Siamese twins on a living room side table.

Sink’s great-grandfather was Chang Bunker, one of the twins who spent their 63 years attached at the base of their chests by a 5-inch-long band of flesh. They traveled the world as curiosities before finally settling as gentlemen farmers in Mount Airy.

“A friend of mine saw that (painting) in the Royal College of Surgeons Museum in London,” Sink said. “The twins went there when they were teenagers to meet with doctors.” Sink framed a high-resolution print of the 1830s painting. She was taught to always be proud of the twins’ tenacity and her unusual heritage.

She grew up in one of the homes the brothers lived in.

They split their time between each one’s family. The Thonotosassa dining room was designed to specific dimensions to hold two antique corner cabinets from the childhood home.

Two final touches that make Sink’s country home the ultimate place for raising a family and hosting guests are the tennis courts, which were already on the property, and a basement apartment with easy access to the lake.

“You can water-ski in the lake,” Sink said, “but you can’t swim because of the alligators.”

A family photo shows Sink’s great-grandfather, Chang Bunker, and his twin brother, who spent their 63 years attached at the base of their chests. They were the original Siamese twins.

The entryway of the Florida Cracker-style house.

APRIL 2016

bay 79

# ## ''

%! *-% ! &$ !

','$ /$ '

# $' ! # * #

, ! * #

','$ + $/+'(

','$ $,+ "

% &*!# % *-% ! &$ !

. *-% ! &$ !

+++" '*# $"

# #0 ! %*# %#0 "'%* *8 %" 4 !0 # 39&9 % * # &9 0( % 6 0 * *%#0( %*8 * 6%% !%%*+( ' # 6 0 * 5 6+ ! 5 0%* !% %#+0*4 0 %# # "4 "%* *%%" ( 0 9, +)( 0( # !# ' ))) )))

%#0 "'%* *8 ! # 6 0 %' # 6 0 * 5 6+ # '* 5 0 # ! 5 %# 2 * ( * 0 04* !!8 * + # # %"'! 0 !8 * "% ! 6 0 +' ! " +0 * +4 0 %4*" 0 0 # 4+0%" 6 # !! * !% 0 # +0 * + "4!0 ! 5 ! 7' #+ 5 ! # # "%* # !# ' ))) )))

0 * *%#0 %" 4 !0 # 399, !! !% %#+0*4 0 %# 06% " +0 * +4 0 + ! 5 0%* # "%* *%%" ( 0 33 +)( 0(

% * # 0 * ! ! # + ! 5 0%* " +0 * +4 0 6 0 "%*# # 0 # # !% 0.% ( ! 5 0%* 0% !! ! 5 !+ *%%" 1 0 1--& +)( 0(

# !# " )))

# !# ) )))

' # 6 0 * 5 6+ +0* ++ 6%% "+ # ! #0 6*%4 0 *%# * ! # + ! 5 0%* " * ! !%%*+ # "%* *%%" ( 0 &$- +)( 0( 4 !0 # 399,( # !# ( $ ) )))

0 * *%#0 *%%" 0 3$3 +)( 0( %" 6 0 * "% ! 0 # # 0 + %# ! * %*# * !%0(

!! !% %" 4 !0 # 399-( 0 * ! ! # + " * ! !%%*+ 99 %00! 6 # !! * %4*" 0 0 # # "%* *%%" 0 99 +)( 0( # !# ( ))) )))

+ # 0 %4#0*8 !4 ( # ! +0%*8 %" 6 0 +04## # * "% ! 0 # ! * " +0 * +4 0 %*" ! # # # ! 5 # *%%"+( *%%" 3(3 0 1 * * (

# !# $$ )))

# !# ( )))

% 5 6 %4* ! +0 # + 5 + 0 666( # 04* %" +( %"

,*: 38 8 ( 8% ;'+;3'? 2 )+< 8 %) :A,9 =%8# 8%( - 2%+ %) (%) . 2++( 8# 4AA 3/. 8. +) 96! 2 '+8. # !# " ( ) )))

0 ? 381 3%") =%8# ( 8 ' 2++ =% -' )& # 2 =++ '++23 9 2++( 9 8#. # !# " ) )))

3%2 ' " 8 +((;)%8? 8# 2 ' %'%)"3 ' " )8 &%8 # ) (%'? 2++( =%8# %2 -' ';3# ' ) 3 -%)". 2++( 9., 8# 9:*4 3/. 8. # !# ( )))

% " " % %" % % # % ' %") '

+'% +)382; 8%+) 8# 2 ' %'%)"3 +- ) '++2 -' ) (;'8%$' < ' =%) +=3 -++' ) ' 2" -2%< 8 ' ) %. ! 2++( 9. 8# 9A!4 3/. 8. # !# % )))

" % &&* #! % " " ***

%)% - %

%)% )( ((( %'" #

,5 8. + = 8 2 2+)8 +) + %" ? ;22 )8'? @+) 3 $,A. -- -%'%)"3 %) -' . ;%8 +2 ' 2" 3%)"' (%'? #+( ;-' > +2 8#2 $;)%8 82%-' > # !# ))

5 * &.3 !! %# # !%+ ! +

" .

- ! *"! * ! .

' & "+& '"!' "& ' * &'

$& ' & -*"! + & &! & * +!* & "+ ' ! ' +** &'

" . !'*"! ". ! &' ! !*+&

)

(

%%") "&" % % ##% "+&' "! * #0 ( ,,,% &"!/ . " % " +&! *+& $' &* &"$ "& ! ' '

"" & + & '' ' & ! & !' " & '*

( ) ) $

$ $ ! (

' !

$ $ &*$ ( ! )

$ $

& ') + & ) ) ) - ' ) & % ) & ! & +) & &' & %' & ') ) +- &, - & ** .. "+ & + )+& )%' # $

) & ) +- &, - +) ')

' ! "&" %& &

Rebecca Taylor, Ella sleeveless floral tea-length dress in lemon ($895), from Neiman Marcus; Jessica Simpson, Morena sandal in powder ($89), from Dillardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Gloves from private collection.

84 bay

APRIL 2016

home

at

STORY BY KATHLEEN MCGRORY PHOTOGRAPHS BY DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD

Spring is a time of rebirth.

Of new beginnings.

A time to put away the dark sweaters and knee-high boots you wore for

a hot second this winter, and infuse

soft colors and feminine florals back into your wardrobe. Add some freshness to

your spring style with these lovely looks.

Be our guest at this garden party of sorts at a beautiful home on Snell Isle in St. Petersburg.

Wool and flannel, we hardly knew thee! No sweat; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to move on. Transition to warmer temperatures with lighter

fabrics and delicate cutouts that show just enough skin. This tea-length dress with a lemon-yellow print and ladder trim evokes springtime gatherings. Hear the ice clinking? A pair of dainty gloves adds a retro touch a la Betty Draper.

Looks like our young lady has a mystery on her hands as well.

APRIL 2016

bay 85

nature walk Bold, floral prints and accessories are a great way to reconnect with nature. Whether painterly or photorealistic, flowers bring life to any outfit. Take this sleeveless gown. The colorful petals on the skirt pop against the solid orange bodice. Want to play up the elegance even more? Try a floral necklace that blends into the neckline.

Carmen Marc Valvo, sleeveless halter-neck combo gown in orange ($1,295), from Neiman Marcus; Dean Davidson, pyramid-cut green cocktail ring ($244), from Penelope T Boutique in Tampa. Floral necklace from private collection.

APRIL 2016

bay

87

Torn between fancy and casual?

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to choose! Pair a chic, formal skirt with a printed tee. The result will be something between couture and California cool. For an extra fun twist, add an unexpected pop of color with lime pumps. Now where did all the party guests go?

Sundry, American in Paris white printed tee ($77), from Penelope T Boutique, Tampa; Sachin & Babi Noir, Nevis floral skirt ($695), from Neiman Marcus; BCBGeneration, Treasure pointed-toe pumps ($69.99), from Dillardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Even when you have to do it all yourself, you can look cool and beautiful doing it. This season, paisley isn’t just for ties or accessories.

It’s a head-to-toe print. Feeling extra daring? Try a paisley jumpsuit with a plunging neckline. A tassel belt is on trend this season, and can help define your waistline.

Etro, sleeveless wide-leg paisley-print jumpsuit ($1,945), from Neiman Marcus; Dean Davidson, moonstone bone and arrow earrings ($216), from Penelope T Boutique in Tampa; Steve Madden, Carrson sandals ($89), from Dillard’s.

90 bay

APRIL 2016

last minut e

e

Hedge your bets and blow everybody away with reds and oranges this spring.

Sure, they don’t fit with the traditional pastel palette. But here’s why fiery colors work this time of year: They evoke thoughts of tulips and poppies. They pair well with purples and pinks.

yard chores And they turn heads.

Above, Steve Madden, Carrson sandals ($89), from Dillard’s.

At right, Elliatt, funnel-neck pleated tangerine dress ($126), from Penelope T Boutique in Tampa; Calvin Klein, Jazzberry sandal in orange ($119), from Dillard’s. Amethyst ring from private collection.

92 bay

APRIL 2016

Sometimes, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no better company than yourself after the sun goes down.

Stella McCartney, Color block Ribbed Sweater with Mesh Inset ($745), from Neiman Marcus.

Alexis, wide-leg Fiorello pant ($352), from Neiman Marcus.

Steve Madden, Carrson sandals ($89), from Dillardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Ring, private collection

after party

Wardrobe stylist: Valerie Romas, one2styleu.com Hair and makeup: Suzin Moon Model: Hilary Batcho Canine model: Louie Prop stylist: Whitney Cohen Props provided by Neeld-Gordon Co., Lawnmower Sales & Repair, Feed & Seed 1258 19th St. N St. Petersburg (727) 822-3846

Left, Eliza J, scarf-print dress ($158), from Dillardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; Yochi, turquoise cabachon cuff ($98), from Penelope T Boutique in Tampa; Jessica Simpson, Morena sandal in powder ($89), from Dillardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Sunglasses from private collection.

$ $ $ % % ' & $ $ $ ( $ & ) ' $ "! & ) & % $ $ $ $ )

' #

%& %& # " ! ' ' " ! ' " ! ' ! # $ " ! ! !! ' # " " " ''

' = #2 7! )+ %% 1 #%%# &2 '7 #' #' %% 2 *:'7=

+>43( 1 2 7 1 * 5 / 58 443+ 20 7 * 1 7 3(( (>> (- 7! # 5.2%" 5 !2 - "%%- - . # !% 2 - 2!9 %# 2 &32 %! % 2 7 - 7 ## # - "%%- %! %5#2-9 !5 ) 25- # -%%". ' 2 . %6 - //:: .+ 2 % #6 2 # ! 6 # .( ) 25- . # !5 5( 2 ,. 2 # (%%! # .( %52 %%- 2 # # " # #2 6 7. % 2 %! %5-. )

+ + 9> + :% %; )9> #1 !

9 9 9 59 59 98 20 7 + +3 >>> -2*% #' $:27 =2. +

2 - -%#2 !585-9 %# % 25- #

# 2 8 !5. 6 - #% %# %" # 5"

%""5# 29) . "(- .. 6 4 -%%" 4) % 2 * %# % 25- . 52 5! %( #

- 70 !%%- 2% ! # .! -. (-%6 # !! 6 # 6 8( #. 6 6 7. % 2 5! % 8 %) 8

>+ =*: 1 ' %; 7/ 7 12 :1 3 5 59 >>4 20 7 + + 7/ * < 7 1 1*'7

1 7 (( >>> 5 7 9 -%" 2 .2- 2 2 . 52 5! " !9 - . # % -. (- 6 9 # -%5. ! 6 # .( %" %- 9%5- % 2 # %#6 # # 2% %7#2%7# 2) 2 ) 9 - . .! % ( - . 7 2 ( 6 - 7 ! 7 9. " # 5- ! # . ( # %6 -!%% # ( 7 2 -7 9. ! # 2% "( 9) &$ % 2 ! 2 70# 7 ( ! # . 6 2. # 7 ! -%5# )

%% 1 #%%# &2 7! 1 27 % 27 7 1 ' !#2 #' 7!

1*, 17# 2 ' =2 # / *& -393. 8( "98+> <<</ ' = 17& '' *& 2/ *&

! *' + )' "*) "*$$$ ' # , ) ""& ! ' ! -# & ! ) ! )' " *-*&. &* ' "! ."*& + &. ",! . )$ " # ) , ) #& + ) #) ! ! "*& ) & , . ) &) & )& )' ."* )" ! ! *' + ) , . ! '" " ) ,"& %' "') ')*!! ! ' ' ') ! ) "!'$ ) & )%' ) " ) & ! "& ) ) && ! !%' ) '' & & , &) & )' ."* ' ) # ' ."* , !) )" ' " ) ) ! ' ."* , !) )" " ! ! * ! ) +"&' ."* "+ $ )%' + ) "! ! ) ' ) , . ) ' "* $

" ! ("

"

( "$ ! " " "$! $ " ! % ' $ ! "$ !( ' $ ! " "$ ! $ !$

! ( & ! $ ' $ !

$

& ! $ & !"

! " ! " $

$!

! " $ " ( %! $ "

!" $ ! " $ " ! $ %"$

&

$

17925 Spencer Road Scott Miller

$1,799,999 813.310.9713

Web ID T2805751

CLEARWATER | 727.585.9600

SOUTH TAMPA | 813.217.5288

ST. PETERSBURG | 727.898.6800

321 Indian Rocks Road North Belleair Bluffs, Florida 33770

202 South Moody Avenue Tampa, Florida 33609

102 2nd Avenue NE St. Petersburg, Florida 33701

851 Brightwaters Boulevard NE $4,150,000 | Web ID U7764553 Rick Scherer & Alona Dishy 813.230.5472

300 Beach Drive NE #2801 $4,100,000 | Web ID U7765462 Alona Dishy 727.458.8037

1800 North Shore Drive NE $3,495,000 | Web ID U7752431 Alona Dishy 727.458.8037

531 East County Line Road $3,450,000 | Web ID U7760215 Jacqueline Diaz & Karen Hegemeier 727.424.2317

1208 Beach Trail $3,400,000 | Web ID U7761146 Timothy Shears 727.238.6864

614 Columbus Drive $2,695,000 | Web ID U7768345 Robyn Gunn 727.421.7234

300 Beach Drive NE #210 $2,110,000 | Web ID U7752442 Alona Dishy 727.458.8037

301 South Gulfview Boulevard PH 702 $2,086,000 | Web ID U7723950 Jacqueline Diaz & Linda Dunne 727.424.2317

Sotheby’s International Realty® and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered service marks used with permission. Each office is independently owned and operated. Equal Housing Opportunity. Property information herein is derived from various sources including, but not limited to, county records and multiple listing services, and may include approximations. All information is deemed accurate. *Summer Landscape by Vincent Van Gogh used with permission.

5117 South Nichol Street $1,150,000 | Web ID T2804888 Kimberly Wilson 813.810.0042

132 29th Avenue North $999,000 | Web ID T2804996 Lynn Richey 813.244.6533

12644 Tradition Drive $649,900 | Web ID T2801537 Scott Miller 813.310.9713

3301 Bayshore Boulevard #307B $625,000 | Web ID T2802537 Rick Scherer & Kevin Reder 813.748.1177

2509 Bay Boulevard Unit B $749,000 | Web ID U7748632 Diane Swainston & David Gardella 727.688.8875

175 1st Street South #2701 $689,000 | Web ID U7742028 Frank Fage 727.492.7817

PREMIERSOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

2300 Andalusia Way NE 7906 Bayshore Drive $549,000 | Web ID U7769847 Timothy Shears 727.238.6864

1380 Gulf Boulevard #1208 $525,000 | Web ID U7757914 Timothy Shears 727.238.6864

Sandy Waterbury & Jenny Putrino

$1,100,000 727.507.1788

Web ID U7765256

Follow our Extraordinary Living Blog to explore highlights from the world of luxury real estate, art and design, destinations and more.

EXPERIENCE THE EXTRAORDINARY

BLOG.PREMIERSOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

EXTRAORDINARY LIVES HERE

614 COLUMBUS DRIVE | TIERRA VERDE | $2,695,000

WHAT IS EXTRAORDINARY? WHERE DOES IT COME FROM? Is it a mindset? A belief? Or is it an actual place?

If it is, we’ll make sure that when you get there, it feels like home.

Robyn Gunn

Diane Swainston

727.421.7234

727.688.8875

GUNNSWAINSTONGROUP . COM

175 1ST STREET SOUTH #3203 | ST. PETERSBURG | $1,495,000

1160 GULF BOULEVARD | BELLEAIR SHORES | $2,795,000

Sotheby’s International Realty® and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered service marks used with permission. Each office is independently owned and operated. Equal Housing Opportunity. Property information herein is derived from various sources including, but not limited to, county records and multiple listing services, and may include approximations. All information is deemed accurate and neither suggests nor infers that Sotheby’s International Realty participated as either the listing or cooperating agent or broker in the sale or purchase of the properties depicted.

)! " + (, " +(-

)*! $

#( # + $ # ))%%.

%*%" * "*)!% " - $ ( ,$# (,"

!)")& "% )) # " # $ ( ,$# (,"

! & ! ! !& ! ! & ! ! !& ! # " $ ! ! & $ ! " " !" !& !& ! # # " " "

"! ! ! ! " !& " ! ! # & " % ! ! " ! ! " ! ! ! ! & ! ! !& ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! " ! ! !

Gasparilla getaway

BY KATHERINE SNOW SMITH

W

hether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeking echoes of the past or all the luxuries of today, the Gasparilla Inn & Club in Boca Grande is a lovely place to stay. The historic inn with 142 rooms and cottages allows you to visit old Florida in rocking chairs on a wide front porch or by sipping a cocktail in the Pelican Room with its paneled walls, mounted tarpon and display case of prized seashells.

The inn opened in 1913 and soon became a favorite Florida oasis for guests from Chicago, Boston, New York and beyond with names like Astor, Vanderbilt, Dupont and Ford. Though the clientele is no longer dominated by titans of industry, it continues to be a destination for families, girlfriendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; weekends, fishing trips and corporate retreats.

Towering columns make a stately entrance on the west side of the Gasparilla Inn. The historic postcard shows the original south porch entrance before it was moved and columns were added in the 1930s.

APRIL 2016

bay

107

Above, hardwood floors are varnished to a high shine in the main sitting area, where tea is served daily at 4 p.m. in season.

At right, the Gasparilla Innâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pool area overlooks the Gulf of Mexico.

At far right, breakfast and dinner are served in the innâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dining room.

108 bay

APRIL 2016

early on Above, the Pelican Room, which was built in 1932.

At right, the south porch.

When guests drive down narrow Palm Avenue and see the corn silk yellow inn with its whitewashed Grecian columns spaced evenly around a wide screen door, they know they are on vacation. Staff are at the ready behind a wooden registration desk. In earlier years a clipboard of reservations hung on the wall and there was a steady stream of guests clustering around it to see when their friends or potential friends were arriving.

Sitting areas with white furniture and pastel patterned fabrics, John James Audubon prints and oversized conchs line the hardwood floors varnished so brightly you can see your reflection.

Well into the 1990s there were no televisions in the rooms. Instead, Gasparilla guests congregated in the lounge to watch the news or sporting events. But after an extensive renovation several years ago, most guest rooms now have a flat screen in the sleeping quarters and another in the sitting room.

APRIL 2016

bay

109

Pingpong on the porch, billiards in the Pelican Room and croquet on the lawn (you must wear white) have been mainstays at the inn for decades. It now also boasts a Pete Dye signature 18-hole golf course. The gulf laps at the edges of the greens.

Other activities include biking, kayaking, paddle boarding and, of course, fishing. Boca Grande is known as “tarpon central” among fishing enthusiasts across the country.

The inn’s beach club sits on the Gulf of Mexico. Yellow and white striped umbrellas circle the pool and line the beach. The fitness center also offers a view of the gulf along with yoga, core circuit classes and guided walking tours. The spa menu includes toning and firming treatments, seaweed wraps and massage.

For an additional fee, guests enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner at the inn, where jackets are required in the evening. Fresh fish and flavorful salads score well with diners. Waffles and French toast at breakfast rival the fried dough found at county fairs.

The Gasparilla Inn also owns the Pink Elephant in the island’s quaint business district. It’s known for its cozy indoor dining, breezy patio tables, grilled grouper and lobster mac-n-cheese. Boca Grande’s town center is a quick walk from the inn. It has just over a dozen businesses, including clothing and jewelry stores, a small grocery, the requisite ice cream shop and the long-loved Temptation restaurant.

Betty Jo Andrews of Clearwater first visited the Gasparilla Inn 35 years ago with her husband, Dayton Andrews, and their two young sons.

Destinations

We used to not have keys to the rooms.

Nobody thought anything about going out of the room and leaving it unlocked.

Now we use the keys.

Also, they didn’t take credit cards for the longest time.”

BETTY JO ANDREWS

Guests can relax or enjoy a game of billiards in the Pelican Room.

At far left, the inn’s Pete Dye Signature Golf Course is on its own private island.

APRIL 2016

bay 111

The Gasparilla Inn also owns the Pink Elephant in the island’s quaint business district. It’s known for its cozy indoor dining, breezy patio tables, grilled grouper and lobster mac-n-cheese.

Accommodations include 18 private cottages and villas.

At top, the outdoor terrace at BZ’s, which serves beveragesand snacks.

All photographs courtesy of the Gasparilla Inn

112 bay

APRIL 2016

“We just had a grand ol’ time. Since then, we have never missed a Memorial Day weekend in our lives,” she said.

As the boys have gotten married, had kids and merged families, the crowd has grown. Last year, Andrews took 36 people with her for the weekend.

“The food is fantastic. We love the beach club. They did not always have as nice a spa as they do now,” she recounted.

“Some years back it was just three rooms and they had these little ol’ rattling air conditioners. You couldn’t hear yourself think while you were getting your relaxing massage.”

Another thing that has changed over the years is security.

“We used to not have keys to the rooms. Nobody thought anything about going out of the room and leaving it unlocked. Now we use the keys. Also, they didn’t take credit cards for the longest time,” she said with a laugh.

Everybody in the family goes fishing in Charlotte Harbor and the gulf, including Andrews herself. And there’s usually a good gin game going on between a few family members.

Andrews’ husband, who founded the Dayton Andrews car dealerships in Clearwater, died almost eight years ago.

She said that first trip without him was bittersweet but she was so glad her sons committed to continuing the Gasparilla weekends.

“It made me appreciate life so much more. To have my boys continue that tradition because they were so close to their father meant so much,” she said. “It wasn’t an unhappy time. It was a time to carry on the tradition and know nothing would stop us.”

Times researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.

The Gasparilla Inn is closed July 5 through October 8.

At top, the golf pro shop is housed in this historic building that was moved by barge from Useppa Island.

At left, furnishings in the sitting area are covered in colorful pastels.

APRIL 2016

bay

113

" $ $ " % " " " " % ( # # " $ ' ' % $ % '

% " % " " $ ' %

" " ' # " " # & & % " #"

' % ' ' " $ "

$ # " ' # " #" " "

"

" % ' " ' ' "' % " ' # " $ % ' " # " " ' # &

!

!

! ! "

! % " $ %

"!

! $ "

" ! %

! #

"

* & & # & "&) &- )& ) # " - + & " " & # &)" " + + & " " & & # ) - & #& & " &)" # & ) " * +# & ) , & &" #& + & "+ - & # " # "& #&- # " " (.. $ . #!) " & " )#& #& # + - " + & # # " #& )" &# # & * & # & "& & ' . ... ! % ! # ! % %$

! ! ! " & "

! ! %$

from cocoon to butterfly

NEW NE NEVE VERN RN™

Waterston tone Coll ollection ion™

Bring out the true beauty of your kitchen with beautiful Cambria® countertops. With 13 new designs introduced this fall – for a total of 20 new selections this year, Cambria now offers 122 exclusive designs that tastefully enhance any style or decor.

Visit CambriaUSA.com.

cuttingedgegranite.com

LARGO 12350 S. Belcher Rd. 727-530-5579

SPRING HILL 13814 Linden Drive 352-293-2585

FT. MYERS 12370 Metro Parkway 239-768-3950

© CAMBRIA 2014

transform your kitchen

. .

...

665$ 1 5529#

,5.6$1.$##1

+) 8 ! /& 8 * 59 ( 4+ # 59-( 47/ 8 ,9 99 ( 4+ # 99-( 7) 8 '+0

0&%) "7/)&47/ . +(

#FBDI %SJWF /& t %PXOUPXO 4U 1FUFSTCVSH XXX QBSLTIPSFHSJMM DPN t 8*/&

)LHJO +YP]L 5, +V^U[V^U :[ 7L[LYZI\YN ILHJOZLHMVVK JVT

6($)22' 67($.6 63,5,76

%*/*/( t %3*/,4 t %0$,4

5" 1"4 t & 41 3 & 4 4 0 t 7 * / 0

*8/) %/9' ,1',$1 52&.6 %($&+ )/ _ $48$35,0()/25,'$ &20

\PMPIVOIZ[\XM\M KWU

(VMG #MWE t *OEJBO 4IPSFT ' t UIFQVCXBUFSGSPOUSFTUBVSBOU DPN

$ # !! % " "! ! $

%'

" " ! %

%

% &' " "

'' "' #& % "& ! %#2 +3 /#& , & 3 2 +3 , (' 3(1+ %( /#('* 2#'!, + / $ ' ( (1+ 2 +3 3 ,/ +# , ' 2 %# (+ %#&#/ /#& ('%3* ,$ ,#!' + (+ 2#,#/ /" ' %% '* (& (+ / #%,* 04)- /" ' %% ' %( % ' *

122

BEAUTIFUL GARDENS ADORN THE VINOY AT A GALA TO BENEFIT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.

A ‘room’ and table designed by Showorks Inc. at a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity.

Photograph by Jay Nolan

FUN AND GAMES

WESTWARD HO

A fun evening of shuffleboard benefits the St. Petersburg History Museum: Page 124

Denim and boots rule at the American Cancer Society’s Cattle Baron’s Ball: Page 132

community ST. PETERSBURG

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY The Blueprint “Great Gardens” gala fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity turned the Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort into a menagerie of gardens and beautiful tabletops created by Tampa Bay interior designers, florists and retailers.

There were dangling sea horses made of chrysanthemums and daisies, and bouquets of roses, lilies, roses, wisteria, roses, dogwoods, and, well you get the point. Roses galore.

Allen Smith, an award-winning food, lifestyle and garden expert, author and host of two public television programs, was the gala’s honorary chairman. The “farm to table” menu was inspired by his debut cookbook, Seasonal Recipes From the Garden.

1 2

1. A “room” and table designed by Todd Anthony Design.

2. Les and Pam Muma take part in the gala.

3. A “room” and table designed by Mis en Chic.

4. A “room” and table designed by Braun’s Fine Flowers.

5. Cicely Rathmell, Effie Santos, Lester Santos and Laurie Daigle.

Photographs by Jay Nolan

5 4

122 bay

APRIL 2016

3

$, $ % $ % ($ % %+ ( $ . % , $% ( ( # +$ ( / $ + % ( $ . ( +$ . % % $ %+$ ( % #

. +$ # $ # & # # %( $ ( $% !* " $ & .%

- $ +$ + $ + $ $ % ( ( %#

+ .%

( $ , ( % +$ $ ( +(#

&*&# * #) &

community ST. PETERSBURG

ST. PETERSBURG HISTORY MUSEUM The museum celebrated with supporters at a fundraiser dubbed Cocktails on the Courts at the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club. The event offered a taste of Old Florida. A buffet served mango smoothies in martini glasses, grits with bacon and cheese, and miniature key lime pies. Though the iconic Shuffleboard Club built in 1922 provided plenty of history, there also was memorabilia from the museum.

1. Attendees play shuffleboard.

2. Anne and Neil McMullen dressed in traditional turnof-the-century clothing in the spirit of the evening.

3. Jennifer Pritchard and Laura Lenz try their skills at shuffleboard.

4. Terry Clark, trumpet player for the band the Black Honkeys, plays a solo to the delight of the crowd.

5. Rand Meeham and John Leger make a toast.

6. Julie Nolan and Zack Platt dressed in costume.

1 2

Photographs by David D. Doonan

5

6 4

3

124 bay

APRIL 2016

' +/ # 252*6 3 % 2+/'$ 2 #/ '* '2* +/6#

! '1 '+ -' -+ ! ' " ( #' ( !+( + "! ! 2 ! -( ! !(# ' , '"" ,$ + / + ". ' , )33 (&- ' + ". ' "" ! + ZDWHU 7KLV RSHQ Ã&#x20AC;RRU SODQ ZHOFRPHV \RX ZLWK YDXOWHG FHLOLQJV DQG DOORZV "' ' + + ! . /( '" + (+ ' (- + + ! ! ' + '"" $ -# + -+ - 1 ( ! (# ' (+ ' ( ! ' 0 / + ' ! ( ! + - '"" "' ! "1 (-!( +( / + 1"-' 1 '" + #' . + ". ' "!1$ "/ ( 1"-' ! +" # '+ " + '+ -' -+ ! ' 1$ 1 1 & &88 + ## 5 '2* 5) / / '%+ 0 -( . #"" " ( +- + ! + " -! +1 " ' ! 1#' (( / + DFFHVV WR /DNH 7DUSRQ +DUGZRRG Ã&#x20AC;RRUV Ã&#x20AC;RZ WKURXJKRXW WKLV %5 %$ "-( $ ' "-' + + ! "# !( +" ! #' (( . 1 '"" / ' / ( " / ! "/( "# ! +" ' ! ( ' ! #"" / + (# $ (+ ' (- + JXHVW URRP FRPSOHWH WKH ¿UVW OHYHO ZKLOH XSVWDLUV DUH EHGURRPV ZLWK , + '"" ( ! "-! # ' + "' - (+( ! 1$ + ' ! + ( ! - # + (( + '"- "-+ ' ! "-( - " (1(+ ! , ' ' $ 888 % 6 2%+ /+ 0DJQL¿FHQW VT IW XQLW LQ WKH 6RPHUVHW EXLOGLQJ RI WKH *UDQGH RQ 6DQG .H\ 7KLV IXOO\ IXUQLVKHG %HGURRP %DWK RIIHUV H[SDQVLYH "! ( ! / + ' . /( '" '"" ($ ("'+ ! + ( ! - +/" SRROV KRW WXE VSD ELOOLDUGV DQG ¿WQHVV URRPV WHQQLV FRXUWV VHFXULW\ ! "! ' ( '. $ +- + '"(( '" "## ( " ! 1 / + + IDPRXV &ROXPELD 5HVWDXUDQW %DFNZDWHUV 0DJJLH 0DH¶V DQG PRUH , & 888

2+/ +/ % # ' 6'2 ( ( +( "! "! " + "(+ ( ' '"!+ "+( / + ! + + FRPPXQLW\ RI 3ODFLGR %D\RX DQG RIIHUV SRRO DQG ODNH YLHZV IURP DOPRVW . '1 '"" $ ' ! ""'( '" + (+ ' (- + +" + ! ! #"" DUHD $ OLEUDU\ ZLWK FXVWRP FDELQHWV DQG VKHOYLQJ FRPSOHPHQWV WKH %5 1"-+$ 1"- ". +" "" 1"- / ". + ( (# "-( + ! / + " # + ## ! # ! - ! (- 2 '" ' ' ' +"' ( ' ! / + "## ' "" ! ! ( ! / + "## ' . + ( ! $ , & &88 * ))'*/2% /6

/! # " # ' ( / + + ( #'"# '+1 ( +- + "! ,% ' ( " -( ODQGVFDSLQJ DW WKH HQG RI D FXO GH VDF 2QH DFUH LV ZHWODQGV 7KH PDLQ Ã&#x20AC;RRU KDV Ã&#x20AC;RZLQJ $FDFLD KDUGZRRG Ã&#x20AC;RRUV LQ WKH NLWFKHQ GLQLQJ DQG OLYLQJ URRP / ( ! / + - + # ( +( " ' ! ""'( ! +" + ". ' GHFN DQG RSHQ SRRO DUHD 4XLHW DQG VHFOXGHG \HW MXVW PLOH WR +RQH\PRRQ ( ! $ , & &&&

'*% '*/ ,1, ,,( 11

* 72 !

0(, 0,( 8&0

* %" $ *'+ '

'* 2*) 6 ,1, 18 ,- 1

/ 6 '4 % ,1, - - (88

! '"

! "

! " ! ! ! ' ! ' !

! "

! " ! ! % % ! !

! " ! ! " ! ! !

! " ! ! " ! "% ! "% !

( ! " #&

&! + & ' '+ &!-# & - ' !! 0%' +! & && & ' !& !! !-' $ - + ! + .

0#& '' # + / + & &! + & '+ -& + ' ' &. # 0%' '+ ' !! & '+ ' & ' ' ' " (,$

"

" ! 0 ! && & (,( )) ,"" ///$ 0''+! & $ !

$ *% * ' , ' )// ' , ' $ $ ' % ' ! $ ' % '' $ ' % -#* % ' . % *%' - !'

#* '." , $$ $ $ + , .% ! ' % )

$ % ! $ %

! + ' + $

% %*$$ * ' ( %#" '" " . -! % + + ,% ' '$

%'

' $, . $ %!

*% + $ % '*$ + * ' % $ + $ $

$ , $ - !' . % , $

!! ' '%" , !

-'$

$ %

, $ % ! ! ' ' % + $. %!

!$ ! $ ." %*$

$ #* $ " $ ' ) / ///"

Whatever your palate, we got you covered.

baystarrestaurantgroup.com

%

# # #

% %

# ' #

& #

# # % $ ! # ( % $

%

%

' *' * , ' , *

'" ' * ( % $)$ ) ) - " " ' " *"# . $ . "

' ) * -#

""

#

#!

APRIL 2016

bay

129

community TAMPA

YE MYSTIC KREWE OF GASPARILLA Tampa celebrates its pirate lore, loudly and proudly, during the annual Gasparilla revelry, led since 1904 by the elite men’s club, Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla.

The season launched at Ye Captain’s Ball with 1,500 partiers dressed in pirate finery Jan. 28 at the Tampa Yacht & Country Club. The formal coronation ball capped the festivities Feb. 20 with the crowning of king and queen, W. Lawrence Smith and India Stallings, at the Tampa Convention Center.

1. Gasparilla King Larry Smith and Queen India Stallings, the 103rd rulers of the men’s social club.

2. Mary Lee Farrior and Joan Steinbrenner.

3. Pirate Robert Thomas and Laura Woodard arrive at Ye Captain’s Ball.

4. Capt. Rex Farrior III gets a big hug from 1987 Gasparilla King Jim Ferman at Ye Captain’s Ball.

5. Ye Captain’s Ball partygoers John Wakefield, Pam Bondi, Carlos Alfonso, Dina Sierra Smith, Dorothy Alfonso and Don Smith.

6. Ye Mystic Krewe’s 2015 court members Courtier Drew Jennewein, maid Anne Cappello, Courtier Guy King IV and maid Brooke Farrior conclude their royal duties.

7. Simone Savino, Garrett Brown, Harrison Tropp and Molly Phillips in pirate finery at Ye Captain’s Ball.

1

2

7

3

Photographs by Amy Scherzer

6

5

130 bay

APRIL 2016

4

' - - ( ( * ! ! & ! & " # )" $ ( $ ' ( - -

!# # # # ' !# % % % ' ! ' ' $ # & # ' # ! $ ! ! # & $! # !

* " $ - ) & , # # & & & " , ) # + " # " # & " , # & # ) ) "

APRIL 2016

bay

131

community TAMPA

CATTLE BARONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BALL The American Cancer Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 19th annual Cattle Baronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ball sprawled through Water Works Park, filling a ginormous tent with 500 denim-and-boot-wearing guests chowing down Feb. 20 on dinner donated by the Gonzmart family from three restaurants â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Columbia, Ulele and Goody Goody. Rocking to the Southern Train band, roping a mechanical calf and hearing from a young brain cancer survivor, supporters raised more than $575,000 for research, education and advocacy.

1. Aakash Patel and Richard Gonzmart visit with American Cancer Society vice president Ralph and Lisa DiVitto.

2. Tamer and Yvonne Youssef check out the mechanical calf-roping machine.

3. The Gonzmart Gals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lauren, Melanie and Andrea â&#x20AC;&#x201D; giddy-up to support the American Cancer Society.

4. Kris and Carmine LaCognata co-chair the Cattle Baronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ball for the second time.

Photographs by Amy Scherzer

1

2 3 4

% ! % (!% % ! !%,

+ % ! ! )

( %, * * % % %! (% % ( %(

# % ) ( % % ! ( "'" & "-#

132 bay

APRIL 2016

. * " ,( , ,/ ( $( *.* *. % 0 )/ ", ( )' $! $"' ( ' # -0 ! &! ,' %0 ! -&!

" " "

!

" "

" $ "

# $

" % " % ! !! !

APRIL 2016

bay

133

) 15 0/1 #5 ! ' ' 0 80 ; 85#9 ! 1 ) 01 15 18 % & '8 :#5! ' &+! 1#1 )' !# !".8 %#5< 0 1!%< +0 + 0 #' 0 # '51- % )) ' 0 % ))$#' 8%% 00 < ) +0 &#8& 1+#0#51 ) $5 #%1 ;5 '1#9 :#' %#15 0 5 ' )55% 01 ' 0 5 - - 15<% +#== < 5! 1%# )0 5! :!)% +# *>>, 1 09 1 5#' :#5! % 50# 0 %#' 01 15" 09 )' 11#)'1 :#5! <)80 50 #5#)' % &)9# 9)0#5 1 <0)' .8 0 %% 3(>* 77' 9 5 5 01 80 662*> ) ! 50 1- )&

134 bay

APRIL 2016

!"

* -

"' 5 " + +/ *3%* +

/ %2 #)+ *% 5"' %#5 '* ! 1$ 5 & % %# */

%! 4' * # 5 5"%# " + %'+

# % ! #/

#

(

''' & ( &# !%! $ !

5 &0 &

"' 5 " + +/ *3%* +

" # #% )+ 5"' %#5 %( 0 5 1& 11

333( !%* * +/* (%* ,1,( $1(000, %* &( 66(--1(,1 APRIL 2016

bay

135

' *DPH 'HVLJQ $PHULFDQ *LUO 'ROO $PHULFDQ 6LJQ /DQJXDJH $UFKHU\ %DVHEDOO %DVNHWEDOO &DNH 'HFRUDWLQJ &KHHUOHDGLQJ 6W 3HWH &LW\ 7RXUV &UHDWLQJ &RGH 'LJJLQ· 'LQRV *DUGHQLQJ +RROD 0RQVWHUV ,QGRRU &DPSLQJ <RJD /HJRV /HWWHUER[LQJ 0DG 6FLHQFH 0DULQH 6FLHQFH 0LQHFUDIW 3DLQWLQJ 3KRWR &RPSRVLWLRQ 7HQQLV 9ROOH\EDOO DQG VR PXFK PRUH

5(*,67(5 $7 FDQWHUEXU\ÁRULGD RUJ VXPPHU

136 bay

APRIL 2016

! # " #

$

#

" !

" APRIL 2016

bay

137

calendar AUGUST SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER NOVEMBER

DECEMBER JANUARY

JUNE JULY

4.28

WINE AND TAPAS EXTRAVAGANZA: Wine and food lovers gather at this party with casino gaming, silent auction and live entertainment. Benefits Doorways-Pinellas Education Foundation. 6 p.m. Belleair Country Club, 1 Country Club Lane, Belleair. $75. (727) 458-0943. www.BelleairRotary.org

WOMEN OF INFLUENCE LUNCHEON: The Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce’s networking event for professional women. 11:30 a.m. A La Carte Event Pavilion, 4050 Dana Shores Drive, Tampa. $90, $75 members.

(813) 276-9440. tampachamber.com

4.21

4.29

FASHION SHOW BY TAMPA PALMS WOMEN’S CLUB: 10:30 a.m. Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club, 5811 Tampa Palms Blvd., Tampa. $35. (813) 979-4588.

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS DINNER: Black-tie benefit for Joshua House held at a private estate, the location of which is disclosed when tickets have been purchased. Cuisine from Mise en Place, open bar, cigar bar and dancing. 7 p.m.

Joshua House, 4115 W Spruce St., Tampa. $275 individual, $1,000 for table of four. (813) 263-3469. friendsofjoshuahouse.org

4.22 FOLLIES: In celebration of the 85th anniversary of the Junior League of St. Petersburg, see a showcase of community talent. Benefits the Junior League. 7:30 p.m. Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. $22, $10 children.

(727) 895-5018. mypalladium.org

4.23 VIP AUCTION IN PARADISE: The “Fun in the Sun for All Kids”-themed event includes cocktail reception followed by dinner and a live auction. Benefits All Children’s Hospital.

6 p.m. Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club, 501 Fifth Ave. NE, St. Petersburg. $175, $315 two. (727) 767-4199. allkids.org/vipauction SEA INTO THE FUTURE: Fundraiser for the Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring features dinner stations and entertainment. Casual or nautical attire. 7 p.m. Port Tampa Bay, 651 Channelside Drive, Tampa. $200. (813) 406-4499. fmcfoundationofcaring.org PRIDE AND PASSION: Tampa Museum of Art fundraiser features hors d’oeuvres, open bar, surprise entertainment and private gallery access. Guests are encouraged to dress in color. 8 p.m. Tampa Museum of Art, 120 Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa. $85 in advance, $100 at the door (includes museum membership). (813) 421-8370. prideandpassion.org

APRIL 2016

APRIL MAY

4.18

LIGHTS FASHION HOPE: LAMPlighters event benefits Metropolitan Ministries and Joshua House. 6 p.m.

Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N MacInnes Place, Tampa. $100. (813) 928-5378. lamplighterstampa.org

138 bay

FEBRUARY MARCH

4.30 TAMPA BAY HEART BALL: Black-tie event with dancing, fine dining and auctions benefiting the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. 6 p.m.

Tampa Marriott Waterside, 700 S Florida Ave., Tampa. $500. (727) 563-8112. Heart.org/TampaBayHeartBall FASHION FUNDS THE CURE: Girls and boys battling cancer will make their debut on the runway escorted by celebrities. Host Giuliana Rancic; wine and food from top area restaurants. Funds go toward pediatric cancer research. 6:30 p.m. Tampa International Jet Center, 4751 Jim Walter Blvd., Tampa. $150. (813) 269-0955. fastercure.org

5.5 FIESTA ON THE FIELD: Dinner, drinks, auctions and entertainment in celebration of the forever families created by the Heart Gallery. 6 p.m. Tropicana Field, 1 Tropicana Drive, St. Petersburg. $125, $75 young professionals.

(727) 258-4806. heartgallerykids.org

5.6 LUMINARIES AWARDS LUNCHEON: Presented by the Junior League of Tampa. 11:30 a.m. Hilton Hotel Downtown Tampa, 211 N Tampa St. (813) 254-1734.

5.7

5.21

HEROES BALL: Black-tie gala benefiting St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital.

Food, open bar, live and silent auctions, entertainment and dancing. 6:30 p.m. Grand Hyatt Tampa, 2900 Bayport Drive, Tampa. $300 and up. (813) 872-0979. sjhfoundation.org

STORYBOOK BALL: FROZEN: The black-tie event to benefit Ronald McDonald House of Tampa Bay features dinner and dancing, live and silent auctions, entertainment. 6 p.m.

Tampa Marriott Waterside, 700 S Florida Ave., Tampa. $500.

(813)258-6430. rmhctampabay.org

BELLA VOCE: St. Petersburg Opera Company fundraiser gala.

Enjoy scenes from around the world depicting settings of the operas from season 10. Dinner, auciton and performance.

Opera Central, 2145 First Ave. S, St. Petersburg.

VIP tickets $300, 5:30 p.m. Grand tickets $175, 7:30 p.m. stpeteopera.org

5.14 A NIGHT TO MARVEL: Tampa General Hospital Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fundraising gala. Theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebrating the Superheroes of Healthcareâ&#x20AC;? and includes dinner and a live auction. Dress code is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Superhero Chicâ&#x20AC;? (capes encouraged) or black tie optional. 7:30 p.m. Tampa Convention Center, 333 S Franklin St., Tampa. $250. (813) 844-7273. tgh.org

SPEAKEASY: St. Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital Foundation gala features dinner and dancing. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. University of South Florida, Student Ballroom, 200 Sixth Ave. S, St. Petersburg. $250. StAnthonysFoundation.org/Gala

5.25 GO RED FOR WOMEN LUNCHEON: Benefits the American Heart Association. 10:30 a.m. Renaissance Tampa Hotel International Plaza, 4200 Jim Walter Blvd., Tampa. $150.

(727) 563-8106. heart.org

5.26 FORK FIGHT 2016: Multiple gourmet courses prepared by top area chefs. Benefits Feeding Tampa Bay. 6 p.m.

Tampa Marriott Waterside, 700 S Florida Ave., Tampa. $300.

(813) 281-0088. FeedingTampaBay.org

APRIL 2016

bay

139

! !

"( " " "

( %

!

' " "

"

" % % (

$ # # #))

) " & " " %

"

""

#" #

#"

# " # # # #&# #&# # &# # # $ $ % $ % %

' # ' " % "

#" % " " " $ % % # % " #" " % % %

"'

" # # "

% " % % % " " " "

' " " % %

' ' ' # " % % % " %

' " " " % % " #

"

% % # $ $ # "' % %

#&# ' % % % " " " # "' "

" # "' # "' #"' " ' # $ ' # "

%

% $ " & ' # % # & " "

'

"""

" # ! # 140 bay

APRIL 2016

"

$ # " " ! % % ! (!% *

% % % % !

" # "% %$ % " " # # " "

" " " #

"

'' % ) % % ! ( &&" "'" # + *** % ! % % !

/+ ' ,0$ 1 $ "" * )! //+ ' / + +0+( /3(%++% " &)" $ .)2( &#

APRIL 2016

bay

141

$ # $ ! $!# % '#$ ! !

! !# #

'# ! $## !

!! # !# !

$ # $ ! & #( ( $## ! ! # & & # # !# # ( # !

# # $ $## ! # #$ # # # $ # #( # # ! $## !

+& 1 ) )# ) ) ) #$ ,#

, ),# #"$ #

) # - # !, 0 ,# $ $ '*1' & ' ' & # #) ) #$ ) 0

) . $$, ) # # # . # #

. ) & . $ #

) # ) , $ ) / # , ) )

. + 11 ) 0 .

$$ $$

$) #

% ) $ ) # # $,

) ) # ) # )

) ) $ 0 0 $ #) ) # # ) $ #

) #

&)" + " )#& " "# + & # & " & #& , # * + - & & " #& ) # & )"

"* - )"

! . . '.. !

144 bay

APRIL 2016

'$'$ )&

' ( ! " * ! & ! (.

" $ $ %" % $ ! ! ! $ $ " ! '" $ ! "$ % % $ " "% " ' !) $ )" " ! " $" "

"" ! " " "

$ ! $ !$ " % !

& ! !("%* !% , (% %

(" " ! "

+ !% "% %

!" ! & ' !) % ! ) ! ' " !" ! & ' !)

& #)

# ' '

# # ) %

%

# %

% #) ( % )

) % #

%#) ' # #

!*$*

' ! % ' ) ! $ ! $ $ ! " ) " & " $ ' $ ' ( ! %! ! " " %! ' ( $ "

! $ !$

% ! %% !" ! ' - ) % % % !" (! &&# -

$ * APRIL 2016

bay

145

next time COMING JUNE 12

FOOD + DRINK ISSUE When Bay hits your doorstep in June it will be our annual Food and Drink issue.

June will be hot. Plenty hot. But that’s no reason to shy away from creating in your kitchen. The magazine will feature local foodies’ go-to appetizers for summer. It will also have a manifesto for picnics on the boat along with fabulous finds for cooks of all different abilities. These are just a few items on this issue’s menu. We hope we’ve whetted your appetite.

Lavender Panna Cotta with Jamon Iberico, Marcona Almonds, Point Reyes Bleu at Brick & Mortar in St. Petersburg.

Photograph by Eve Edelheit

# -%6 #'- ,. ') (;; %3 -% 3 '% # - . %3,.

- $ -

# # -%6 * '$

(4 ; &5 (4 5& 0 0

504; * -'.) 3 ' 8 6 6- 63 6#

'63 $) . # .. (&5;. 6% #'8 8 . '$)# 3 #: - %'7 3 % 5;(4 % #6 % 3 3 '% ' % 8 $ #: -''$ % $ .3 - .6 3 * 36 3 '% % 9 )3 '% ##: ) #'3 3 . )-') -3: % #6 . 3 -''$14* 3 4 /0 .+* 3* $ % '6. % 3 40 .+* 3* .36 '1 - ) -3$ %3* - 3.$ %. ) 7 %3 % 3 . '$ - )- . %3. 3 .3 # 7 # ' % . . . . % % 3 ,. " 3 % -$'%3 '% $ - # '6%3 -3'). 6.3'$ $ - # ".)# . .: # 6.3'$ % 3. % - 8 -. # - .# % % 6 #3 % 63 * ## ' 3 3 -''$.

7 % - %'7 3 8 3 6.3'$ 7 % 3 . $ - # '6%3 -. % $ - # 3 # #''-. . 3 % -- % '% ) 33 -%* ' 3 % '% ' 3 $'.3 . - # % '- '' . % ## ' '63 $) % $ %63 . -'$ '8%3'8% $) ## $ !'- -' . . ')) % % $) %3 -% 3 '% # -)'-3*

8 3 7 ' 3 33). 117 $ '* '$1( /( ; ;

!$ ! $)1 $ ) $ % $ . $ . $ ,% % ,$ % ) ) 1 , ,) ) ) ) , )1 $ $ % ) , ) ! %) $. ) 1 , !!$ 0 ) %" ) , ) $ ) % . ) ,$ ) ) % ) / $$ ) 1 , % , ) $ 1 ,! ) / ) ,) ! $% . $ ) " +2 & / $ %) ) " )% % $. " / $ %) ) , 1 %,!! $)% ) !$ ! % ) $ ,% ) ) #, !! $), )1 )" ! $ ) 1 %, % $1 " / $ ) / $ / $ $ . /% ) $ ) ) $ . /% $ $ %) $ , $ %) $ % $. $ % / 1 / $ %) ) " +2& -*' &