{"id":14186,"date":"2022-01-20T12:47:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/in-house\/?p=14186"},"modified":"2022-01-21T08:04:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:04:50","slug":"frank-aazamis-featured-listing-southwest-silverleaf-splendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/in-house\/in-house-news\/frank-aazamis-featured-listing-southwest-silverleaf-splendor","title":{"rendered":"Frank Aazami\u2019s Featured Listing<\/u><\/em>
Southwest Silverleaf Splendor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This gated hillside estate celebrates Hacienda-style architecture in the Silverleaf golf community of north Scottsdale.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 6.250-acre mountainside sanctuary, 10738 East Diamond Rim, offers both privacy and connectedness to the lush High Sonoran Desert. On the west side of the McDowell Mountains and backing to the country\u2019s largest municipal nature preserve, the 15,603-square-foot home was designed by acclaimed architect John Sather, AIA, AICP, senior partner of SWABACK Architects + Planners, and built by the distinguished Salcito Custom Homes, both Scottsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Sather, the home is timeless in design and its vision as a small village. \u201cGiven the size of this house, the design concept was to break up the masses,\u201d he explains. \u201cWith five separate buildings, the space created between the buildings becomes as important as the interior space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside, the linked courtyards add to a spirit of quiet luxury. \u201cThese communal courtyards act not only as social spaces but as indoor\/outdoor circulation. Given the hillside location, the abundance of rock helps integrate the home in its mountain setting. The terracing of the forms down the mountain also helps give the collection of spaces the feeling of a small mountainside village,\u201d he adds, noting that the 43-year-old firm served as the land planner for Silverleaf almost a quarter century ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Included in the three-level home are a 3,109-square-foot standalone casita and a pool house straddling the infinity-edge heated pool and spa; seven bedrooms, four in the main house; 11.5 bathrooms; a six-car garage; and a standalone spa cottage. The lower level is a partial walk-out finished basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sather notes that the estate would be a perfect match for a car collector; it has exterior areas to show cars in a courtyard setting as well as extended-length garage spaces. \u201cThe new owners could certainly explore expanding the number of garages given the size of the property,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they envisioned their Southwest home, the owners were detail-focused, specifying the best materials and the most astute workmanship. At the entrance, for example, the imposing arched front door with seeded-glass panels was custom crafted of reclaimed materials by La Puerta of Santa Fe, and the two-story entryway features a custom chandelier by trade-only designer Paul Ferrante.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The woodwork throughout is particularly impressive. This includes distressed hickory floors in the main house, which complement the Venetian plasterwork. The flooring required four months to create and install, the owner told The Wall Street Journal\u2019<\/em>s Libertina Brandt for a January 11, 2022, feature about the home. Throughout are Douglas fir beamed ceilings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imported from Italy, the Albertini windows and glass-paneled doors, with their rich burnt-pine finish, intensify this design robustness. The company deliberately sized the three decorative panels on the interior doors so that the door levers center on the door rail. In addition, Tucson-based Taber & Co., known for its bespoke mesquite woodwork, crafted the in-wall cabinets for the living room; the custom interior doors are also solid mesquite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the expansive living room, the fireplace surround was entirely assembled from book-matched marble slabs to great effect for your guests. The owners told Brandt this room and the home overall have performed magnificently for charitable fundraisers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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