Behind a gated, stone-columned entry, a paver courtyard unfolds beneath mature palms, the quiet sound of a stone fountain setting the pace before you've even reached the door. What follows is a Palm Desert estate taken down to its bones and rebuilt with the sun-bleached elegance of Montecito -- 5,793 square feet where vaulted wood-beam ceilings, a commanding stone fireplace, and arched iron-grille windows carry the same unhurried confidence through every room. Travertine underfoot, light overhead: the architecture doesn't compete for attention, it earns it.The kitchen is where craft becomes theater -- a waterfall-edge stone island, a full-height stone slab hood, matte black fixtures against a professional gas range, each detail resolved rather than added. Just beyond, a handcrafted wine room with a tile-inset display niche waits for the kind of evenings that don't need an occasion. The primary suite closes the day the same way it opened -- a freestanding soaking tub, a curbless glass shower lit from within by backlit stone, arched wood-framed windows that turn afternoon light into something worth pausing for.Outside is where the estate stops being a house and becomes a place. A boulder-fed waterfall spills into the pool, cypress and palm hold the edges of 0.7 private acres, and the mountains sit exactly where they should -- close enough to feel, far enough to stay quiet. A private two-bedroom casita, complete with its own living room, adds a rare kind of ease: room for others without ever losing your own. This is a home that doesn't ask to be sold. It asks to be experienced.

Listed by The Borromeo Group of The Agency (760) 625-7372



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