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Lew Oliver has designed personal homes for clients from Florida to California, Colorado to Hawaii. His residential work ranges from Italian villas to Cotswold cottages, sophisticated townhouses to lofts. His numerous national and international design awards include Designer of the New American Home for the National Association of Home builders and Designer of the Southern Accents Show House. His work recently won three Best in American Living (BALA) Awards, the most prestigious residential design awards in the U.S., as well as nine Obie Awards. His interior design for the Grand Bohemian Hotel helped win the hotel the title of Westin’s Best in Brand worldwide for five consecutive years, while the Mansion at Forsyth Park, another of his designs, is a five-diamond hotel. Oliver worked under the auspices of Small, Reynolds, Stuart, and Stuart, and Design Reese architects on both projects.
- Bowden Residence
description: This Lutyens-style house located at the base of Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park was designed to be an intriguing mixture of formality and informality, English-vernacular beauty and warmth. It features a massive brick barrel-vault entry, plastered chimney stack, and custom-designed ironwork inside and out. The living room and dining room...
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description: Situated on a cliff overlooking the National Forest in Roswell, Georgia, the western-facing Moorman Residence was designed to be covered with deciduous vines as an inhabitable “green house.” The Archaic-Doric design features an open floor plan, outdoor pergola garden, and front courtyard designed for full interaction with the street.
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description: Completed in 2005, the Bottoms House is an extraordinarily solid and comfortable house. At 5,000 square feet, the home features an open floor plan, luxurious master suite with master bath and home fitness area, and au pair retreat. Unifying house and landscape, inside and outside, is the estate’s prominent masonry--substantial Roman arches and jack arches...
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description: Located in Savannah’s Historic District, the Mansion at Forsyth Park has been called “a vision of what Savannah might become.” The project entailed both historic renovation of the original 1888 Romanesque building and extensive new construction in the same style. An AAA Four Diamond Award winner, the hotel contains a restaurant, lounges, wine cellar, spa, cooking...
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