Located on a private canal front lot within La Gorce Island — one of Miami Beach’s most secluded residential enclaves — CS Residence is a 5,210-square-foot waterfront home built from the ground up and delivered by Nar Design Studio as a complete environment. Conceived for a young couple relocating from California’s technology sector, the residence answers a precise emotional brief: a home that feels genuinely private and deeply rooted in nature, where the pace of a demanding professional life can give way to something calm, tactile, and still. The landscape was not to frame the house; the house was to be held within it.
Nar Design Studio managed the project from the ground up — encompassing architecture, interior architecture, interior design, landscape design, lighting design, custom millwork design, construction coordination, furnishing procurement, and final styling. The scope reflects the studio’s comprehensive approach to waterfront interior design in Miami Beach and South Florida: every layer, from the silver travertine cladding to the integrated garden, was specified, sourced, and delivered under a single design vision led by architects Nicholas Gennari and Roberto Racy.
The architecture is organized as a single horizontal volume, low and deliberate, its flat roof articulated across three distinct heights that keep the facade from reading as static while preserving a grounded, earth-bound character. Walls are clad in silver travertine with softened, rounded edges, the stone giving the exterior a geological quality, as if formed over time rather than built. All metalwork is finished in bronze — window frames, hardware, and the project’s defining gesture: an inverted canopy of curvilinear bronze-clad form that floats above the entry, casting deep shade and deflecting Miami’s intense sun before the building has even been entered. Landscape design was integral from the outset; rather than treating planting as a perimeter condition, the studio used tropical species and custom planters at varying heights to wrap the house as a living architectural layer, allowing the interiors to remain fully glazed without sacrificing privacy. An infinity pool aligns flush at the canal’s edge, creating a quiet progression from interior to garden to bay.
Inside, the material palette continues the exterior language in a quieter, more tactile register. Oversized travertine panels carry from floors onto walls in the main living spaces, reinforced by ceilings finished in wood, while bronze details, rough stone finishes, soft upholstery in earthy tones, and carefully placed green accents establish the project’s central mood of sophisticated calm. The living room is the spatial and emotional center of the house: a large stretch ceiling, backlit and printed with a custom botanical pattern, evokes the filtered light of a forest glade, while a bookshelf rising the full height of the wall in metal and travertine, with backlit niches, reads as part library, part landscape. Minotti’s Bézier sofa by Studio MK27, Poliform’s Owen lounge chairs by Jean-Marie Massaud in terracotta leather, and a pair of Sampei floor lamps by Davide Groppi hold the room in fluid, organic
calm.
The dining room continues the material narrative with travertine walls, a glass opening framed in bronze onto the garden, and the Henge Sisma table, its travertine base shaped by hand and carrying the same geological character as the surrounding stone. Overhead, the Floyd chandelier — a constellation of Venini Murano glass spheres, hand blown and tinted bronze in Italy — provides the room’s one moment of theatrical light. The master suite dissolves the boundary between interior and the tropical garden that encloses it: a custom headboard spanning wall to wall in deep green suede, its edges detailed in bronze, Henge Spyder pendants glowing like lantern light, and a textural entry sequence of curved metal panels alternating with rough stone. The master bathroom, conceived as a private garden retreat, anchors a sculpted Ming Green marble bathtub on a bed of river pebbles, opening through a partition of glass to a sheltered tropical garden.
CS Residence was built with a complete wellness and sustainability infrastructure integrated from the earliest planning stages — reverse osmosis filtration for the whole house, medical grade air filtration, a pool treated with ozone, solar panels, automated lighting that responds to circadian rhythms, and a rooftop rainwater system recirculated to garden irrigation — embedded within the architecture, invisible in daily operation and consequential in daily life. Across three bedrooms, living and dining rooms, kitchen, terrace, pool, garden, and a sauna and relaxation area, CS Residence demonstrates how luxury waterfront home interior design in Miami Beach can be resolved as one complete environment — with architecture, interiors, landscape, lighting, furniture, and wellness systems developed together from the beginning.
