Luxury Waterfront Home Interior Design in La Gorce, Miami Beach

CS RESIDENCE

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Luxury Waterfront Home Interior Design in La Gorce, Miami Beach

CS RESIDENCE

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A refined tropical waterfront retreat in La Gorce, Miami Beach, where travertine architecture, bronze canopies, lush gardens, and sculptural interiors shape a private sanctuary held within the landscape.

  • La Gorce Island — Miami Beach, Florida

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 ground-up waterfront home designed 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 approach to full-service 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.

Living room with curved beige bouclé sofas and terracotta leather lounge chairs arranged around a black sculptural coffee table on a neutral rug. A circular back-illuminated ceiling panel glows within the wood-finished ceiling, while a full-height stone bookshelf with lit niches, books, and trailing plants lines the wall. Glass doors open to a garden with palms, a pool, and the kitchen visible beyond.
A circular back-illuminated ceiling feature, printed with a custom botanical pattern, casts the diffused light of a forest glade across the travertine living room.
Living room with curved beige sofas, terracotta leather armchairs, and two slim black floor lamps arranged beside a full-height stone-and-dark-metal bookshelf filled with books and greenery. Floor-to-ceiling glass reveals a dense tropical garden, while low stone coffee tables sit on a pale rug beneath a wood-finished ceiling.
A full-height bookshelf in travertine and bronzed metal lines the living room, its back-lit niches reading as part library, part landscape.
Wide living room view with curved beige bouclé sofas and terracotta leather lounge chairs arranged around two round stone coffee tables. A circular back-illuminated ceiling panel glows within the wood ceiling, while vertical dark fins frame the dining area with a long table and smoked-glass chandelier. Full-height glass opens to a covered terrace with pale outdoor seating, palms, and clipped hedges.
The living room opens on one side to the dining area beneath its Murano-glass chandelier and on the other to a covered terrace, the seating gathered on a soft rug at the center of the open plan.
Two curved beige bouclé sofas face each other across round stone coffee tables, with a slim black floor lamp and dark rounded stool completing the seating group. Behind them, full-height glass frames a clipped hedge, palms, and a pale-barked tree. A smoked-glass sphere chandelier hangs near the dining area, with stone-and-dark fins and a wood-lined niche at the edges of the room.
Curved bouclé sofas frame a pair of round stone tables beneath the dining chandelier, the garden held continuously behind a full wall of glass.
Detail of the living room with a curved beige bouclé sofa beside a tall stone-and-dark-metal bookshelf filled with books and trailing plants. A terracotta leather armchair sits against dark-framed full-height glass, with the garden visible at dusk and a round stone coffee table in the foreground.
A quiet corner where the bookshelf meets full-height glass and the garden beyond, the terracotta armchair set against the dark window frame.
Two terracotta leather lounge chairs on black wood frames sit beside a warm-lit stone-and-metal bookshelf filled with books and potted ferns. A curved beige bouclé sofa and dark sculptural coffee table anchor the foreground, with a large beige stone wall panel and wood-finished ceiling completing the room.
Terracotta leather lounge chairs sit against the warm-lit stone bookshelf, with the curved bouclé sofa anchoring the foreground.
Open-plan dining room with a dark-topped table on a sculptural stone base, surrounded by olive-green and dark upholstered chairs beneath a smoked-glass sphere chandelier. Beyond the dining area, pale living room sofas, slim black floor lamps, and a tall stone bookshelf continue the material palette, with garden planting visible at the rear.
Seen from the living room, the dining table and its Murano-glass chandelier sit within one continuous open plan — two spaces, one material world.
Dining room with a dark tabletop on a sculptural stone base, surrounded by olive-green upholstered chairs on dark wood frames. A large chandelier of hand-blown smoked and clear glass spheres hangs above the table, while full-height glass frames a dense garden of palms and a pale-barked tree. Beige stone clads one wall, with a wood-lined niche and branch arrangement along the other.
The dining room opens to the garden through floor-to-ceiling glass, anchored by a sculptural stone table and a chandelier of hand-blown Murano glass spheres.

Inside, the material palette continues the exterior language in a quieter, more tactile register. Large-format travertine panels carry from floors onto walls in the main living spaces, reinforced by wood-finished ceilings, 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 back-illuminated stretch ceiling, printed with a custom botanical pattern, evokes the filtered light of a forest glade, while a full-height bookshelf in metal and travertine with back-lit 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 bronze-framed glass opening onto the garden, and the Henge Sisma table, its hand-shaped travertine base carrying the same geological character as the surrounding stone. Overhead, the Floyd chandelier — a constellation of bronze-tinted Venini Murano blown-glass spheres handcrafted 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 wall-to-wall custom headboard in deep green suede with bronze-detailed edges, 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 full-glass partition to a sheltered tropical garden.

Primary bedroom with a wall-to-wall olive-green upholstered headboard and a low platform bed dressed in cream and taupe linens. Cylindrical glass pendant lights hang on either side of the bed, with a dark lacquer nightstand, upholstered bench, and pale rug completing the suite. Full-height glass opens to a planted terrace with palms and a daybed, while dark wood paneling and vertical rough-stone insets frame the headboard wall.
The master suite is wrapped in an olive-green leather headboard that extends wall-to-wall, framed by vertical stone insets and paired cylindrical pendants — a composition designed to feel held and intentional.
Close view of the primary bedroom bed with stacked white and grey pillows and a bolster against an olive-green upholstered headboard. A lacquer nightstand with a dark veined stone top holds a round matte vase with budding branches, while cylindrical glass pendant lights glow above a pale rug.
Layered linens in cream and grey rest against the green leather headboard, with a sculptural branch arrangement on the stone-topped nightstand.
Close view of a primary bedroom nightstand in olive-grey lacquer with a dark veined stone top and a round matte vase with bare branches. A cylindrical glass pendant hangs above it, while an olive-green upholstered headboard meets a dark wood wall with a vertical rough-stone inset lit from within.
A custom nightstand in lacquer and veined stone sits beneath a slender glass pendant, against the rough-stone inset that runs vertically through the dark wood paneling.
Elevated view of the primary bathroom’s floating double vanity with a seamless taupe stone top, integrated curved basins, and brushed-metal tap. Amber toiletry bottles and a striped jar sit on a raised veined-stone shelf, with dark grey marble walls and floor surrounding the vanity. The rim of a green marble bathtub and floor-mounted tap appear on river pebbles in the foreground.
The custom double vanity reads as a single carved object, its integrated basins and seamless top set against dark veined marble, with the green marble tub beyond.
Primary bathroom with a green veined marble bathtub set on river pebbles and a floor-mounted brushed-metal tap in the foreground. Dark grey veined marble walls frame a recessed rain shower and floating stone vanity, with a vertical light strip glowing beside the mirror.
The green marble tub anchors a room lined in dark veined marble, where a recessed rain shower and floating vanity continue the material field.
Primary bathroom with a freestanding oval bathtub in green veined marble set on loose river pebbles before tall vertical louvres opening to a dense garden of palms, banana leaves, and a citrus tree. A floor-mounted brushed-metal tap stands beside the tub, with dark veined marble walls, a glass rain shower, and stone vanity completing the spa-like room.
A sculpted bathtub in Ming Green marble rests on river pebbles before a slatted screen that opens to a private tropical garden — the room conceived as an open-air bathing sanctuary.

CS Residence was built with a complete wellness and sustainability infrastructure integrated from the earliest planning stages — whole-house reverse-osmosis filtration, medical-grade air filtration, an ozone-treated pool, solar panels, circadian-responsive automated lighting, 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.

While CS Residence pursues a tropical, ground-up waterfront direction, the studio’s work at SK Residence in Surfside reflects a quieter, wellness-driven approach to waterfront interiors, and PS Apartment at Five Park Miami Beach takes a more Brazilian-European condominium direction.

Learn more about Nar Design Studio, the Miami luxury interior design firm founded by Nicholas Gennari and Roberto Racy.

Front of the house with a stone driveway, a dark car parked near the garage, a broad lawn, stepping-stone path, travertine walls, bronze metal roof overhangs, palms, mature trees, and dense planting around the entry.
The arrival side remains low and horizontal, balancing the driveway and garage with mature trees, stone paving, lawn, and dense planting around the entry.
Front approach with a pale stone walkway leading to steps and a recessed entry door, framed by travertine walls, curved bronze metal canopies, dark-framed glass, raised planters, palms, hedges, and dense garden planting.
The front approach uses a long stone path, a recessed entry, bronze metal canopies, and layered planting to create privacy before the home opens toward the water.
Front entry with a curved bronze metal canopy above pale travertine walls, stone steps, dark-framed glass, raised planters, palms, hedges, and warm afternoon light.
The entry sequence is defined by curved bronze metal canopies, softened travertine walls, stone steps, and layered planting.
Close view of the entry garden with curved bronze metal roof canopies, wood ceilings beneath the overhangs, dark-framed glass, travertine walls, and raised planters filled with palms, shrubs, and trailing greenery.
A closer view of the entry shows bronze metal canopies, wood ceilings, travertine walls, glass, and dense planting layered into one calm arrival sequence.
Back of the house with an infinity pool in the foreground, pale stone deck, travertine walls, bronze metal roof canopies, tall glass doors, outdoor lounge seating, palms, and dense tropical planting.
The back of the home opens to the pool terrace, where travertine walls, bronze metal canopies, full-height glass, and tropical planting create a private garden retreat.
Wide view from across the canal showing the waterfront side of the house, an infinity pool, pale stone terrace, travertine walls, bronze metal roof overhangs, dark-framed glass, palms, hedges, and reflections on the water.
Seen from the canal, the house sits behind layered tropical planting, with the pool and stone terrace extending the living spaces toward the water.
Pool terrace with cushioned outdoor lounge chairs beside the water, pale stone paving, travertine walls, bronze metal roof overhangs, tall glass doors, palms, and layered garden planting.
The pool terrace extends the living spaces outdoors, using deep shade, pale stone paving, and planting to create privacy at the waterfront edge.

Project Details

Location: La Gorce Island, Miami Beach, Florida

Market: Luxury Waterfront Residential

Project Type: Architecture + Interior Architecture + Luxury Interior Design

Residence Type: New-Construction Waterfront Single-Family Home

Area: 5,210 ft² / 484 m²

Completion: 2026

Scope: Architecture, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Lighting Design, Custom Millwork Design, Construction Coordination, Furnishing Procurement, Styling

Designers: Nicholas Gennari and Roberto Racy

Interior Design Firm: Nar Design Studio

Design Approach: Refined Tropical Waterfront Retreat, Biophilic Design, Sanctuary Living

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
REFINED TROPICAL WATERFRONT RETREAT

CS Residence reflects Nar Design Studio’s refusal to separate architecture, interior, and landscape into sequential disciplines. On La Gorce Island, a site of extraordinary natural privilege, the design’s task was to choreograph the relationship between private shelter and open water without surrendering either quality. The material vocabulary — travertine, bronze, wood, rough stone, and Ming Green marble — was chosen because these materials carry geological time. They do not look new; they look as though they have always been here. That permanence is what supports the emotional brief: a home that feels like an arrival, not a statement.

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