Former Gap CEO and present Lululemon board chair Glenn Murphy picked up a shining example of 1990s postmodern architecture earlier this year, according to Dirt. Essentially a large contemporary Mediterranean villa, the 10,500 sq. ft. house on 1.56 promontory acres convinced Murphy to part with $42.25 million.
The rugged bluff location is the ideal contrast for the architectural conceit: the home’s aggregate of influences, an engineered but buoyant eclecticism. Arcade walls, pastel trim, a clay tile roof, porthole windows, and a clean tonal scheme of hardwood trim, pastel beige Venetian plaster, and off-white distinguish the interiors of the house.
Among the home’s individual spaces, the barrel-ceilinged great room is surely the most ambitious and fully-realized; its arcade and clerestories look out over the ocean, and it opens to a stone terrace with Mediterranean stone balustrade.
As impressive is the kitchen, dining room and family room combination. The kitchen is a three-island design, while a partial with a peninsula fireplace is among the room’s flourishes, and its exterior walls are almost entirely glass — this space, too, is oriented toward the water. Specialty rooms in the home include a wood-sheathed library with a half-moon shaped picture window.
Outside are lawns and a pergola-covered, stone-floored outdoor kitchen, which transitions to a pavilion. A patio with a fire pit is located just outside the master suite, a large complex with a fireplace bedroom and a cavernous companion bath with picture-window soaking tub.