Resembling a pile of giant sugar cubes atop a prize lot on San Marino Island, the home Raphael Levy designed for a couple who lobe to collect and entertain hides a bevy of sweet surprises within. A catwalk lines the mezzanine of the foyer, allowing guests to get up close and personal with world-class art. Secret doors connect the vast dining room with more intimate pre- and post-prandial entertaining area and, most intriguingly of all, a hot tub concealed beneath the surface of the seventy-foot swimming pool.

“We love to surprise our clients with toys,” said Levy, a partner at Choeff Levy Fischman, the Florida-based practice famous for its espousal to Tropical Modernism – clean, minimalist white boxes surrounded by lust planting that seamlessly blurs the line between interiors and the great outdoors.