Annie O’Carroll
Having lived in Hawaii before moving here to Santa Fe six years ago, Gregg Antonsen, director of marketing and senior vice president for Christie’s Great Estates, always loved the inside-outside Lanai-style architecture popular there in the Pacific Islands. It’s a feel he and interior designer Annie O’Carroll transferred to his Las Campanas home. “We wanted a continuation of what was outside—the golf course, the view, the openness,” says Antonsen. “Usually the outside is not typically brought inside, designwise. But Annie set a trend for that.” “The way we designed the house,” adds O’Carroll, “came from the inspiration of what we knew we were going to hang in the house.” “Annie listened really well to my backgrounds and tastes,” says Antonsen, “which is why there’s no dining room. In my other homes, that was such a waste of space, because I do so much entertaining in the living room. People really love that great room, because it looks out onto the backyard and the golf course and it has the walls that open up, and inside there’s all the great art Annie and I got from Santa Fe painter Michael Wright. Then Annie made these very intimate seating areas that can be expanded for parties. So I can accommodate up to 70 people if I want. It’s wonderful. This is my favorite part of the house.”
