When Indonesia arrived at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, it did not arrive quietly.
For its first appearance at the global exposition, the country’s pavilion spanned more than 30,000 square feet and included a 56-foot meru tower and an 86-foot candi bentar – the distinctive split-gate structure that marks the entrance to Balinese temples. Both were carved in stone in Indonesia then freighted to New York. If you were going to present Bali at its best to the West, imitation or approximation would not do.
Fifty years later, on a bluff in Malibu, top AD100 interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard pursued a version of that same idea. Not quite at world’s-fair-pavilion scale, but nevertheless ambitious for a private residence. Still, the challenge was similar. How do you build a house in California that doesn’t just borrow Balinese style, but captures some measure of its spirit?
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Priced at $33 million, the listing for 24834 Pacific Coast Highway is held by David Parnes, Greg Davis, and Michelle Ficarra of Carolwood Estates.
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