Current owner Richard Braddock, former CEO of Priceline.com, purchased the home in 2001 from Czech-born financier Viktor Kozeny, an international fugitive dubbed the “Pirate of Prague.” The spectacular Italianate-style estate is now listed for $48.5 million.
There are so many residential design innovations and features that enhance wellness. Then there are design details, styles and trends that can put your home’s wellness potential at risk. Here are six, along with tweaks that can preserve it or reduce the hazard potential.
ICON has raised more than $200 million to 3D print homes to combat the global housing and climate crisis as it ramps up to build habitats for NASA Mars and moon missions. Its CEO, investors, and architect, Bjarke Ingles, share how this startup plans to disrupt the construction industry.
It’s customary to remove your shoes when you enter an Afghan home to keep the outside elements from the floors, rugs and furniture. This keeps the interiors cleaner and more hygienic, and is a growing practice in American homes embracing wellness design practices.
Ian Bryant, CEDIA’s director of strategic partnerships, dates the industry’s heightened interest in “well-tech,” (also called well tech and welltech to describe technology created to support wellness), to 2018 with a focus on human centric lighting.