“We wanted it to feel like the French Riviera, like the Hôtel du Cap,” says Los Angeles-based designer Timothy Corrigan of the La Jolla residence he recently completed for Katerina and Darwin Deason. The couple, who call a four-story Dallas penthouse home, bought the property to be closer to Katerina’s mother, but they also wanted a spectacular, meticulously crafted California compound for their family—including Darwin’s grown children and grandchildren. The 11,000-squarefoot property is composed of the completely remodeled 8,000-square-foot main house, an entertaining pavilion with eight guest rooms (a teardown on the neighboring lot was purchased to make room), a marble-clad mosaic pool with his and hers changing rooms, terraces, an original 1920s boathouse-turned-bar and two private beaches. It was a monumental undertaking. “The project was an evolution, and figuring out how to join the two sites was the greatest challenge,” recalls Drexel Patterson
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