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Lido Shores Home for Sale Video

For your viewing pleasure. Please enjoy a video of 1235 Center Place, Sarasota, Florida.

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Our beautiful home is for sale.

1235 Center Place, Lido Shores, Sarasota, FL

Residential - MLS #A4674992

4 Beds - 3 Full Baths - 1 Half Bath - 3,774 Sq. Ft - 2012 Built - 0.32 Acre Lot

An icon of modern design in the style of the world-renowned Sarasota School of Architecture, 1235 Center Place combines award-winning pedigree with exceptional luxury in a setting that is as coveted for its natural beauty and access to amenities as for its storied mid-century and modern estates.

Known as the ‘Light Box House’ for its use of glass walls to showcase courtyard and exterior views, this home was custom built in 2012 by the current owners to foster both idyllic privacy and elevated hospitality. Designed by architect Jonathan Parks FAIA, the home has been widely celebrated for its design, winning the AIA Tampa Bay Merit Award for Architecture and the Grand Aurora Award for a custom home, with features in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Style Magazine, Sarasota Magazine, SRQ Magazine, Sarasota Observer and HomeDSGN magazine.

Occupying the corner lot of Westway and Center and two doors away from the famed Umbrella House, the home is thoughtfully oriented around a central pool that serves as a focal point for both reflection and recreation. Stretching between north and south wings that gently delineate spaces for private retreat and open entertaining, 3,700 A/C square feet encompass three bedrooms with three and a half bathrooms, an office, an open concept gourmet kitchen and adjacent dining and living space, all purposefully positioned to capture optimal light and accentuate the interplay of built features with the tropical landscape.

An elegant contrast to the brilliant sky and foliage outside, the interior is a refined gallery that meticulously balances walls of glass with solid surfaces for display and function, from art-hung walls to Caesarstone countertops. While complementing the mid-century modern style of surrounding homes, contemporary construction here offers the significant advantages of elevation for flood consideration, high-efficiency impact rated materials, and modern integrations including heated primary bathroom floor, motorized window coverings, Generac generator, LED landscape lighting, and more. Recent upgrades include two Carrier Infinity HVAC systems installed in 2025 and 2024.

Lido Shores is an architectural mecca, coveted for its concentration of mid-century modern, contemporary and post-modern homes, with masterpieces by architects Paul Rudolph, Carl Abbott and Don Chapell. All the homes have deeded access to North Lido Beach. Serene and private but within minutes of St. Armands Circle and Downtown, this special island enclave offers immediate access to the tropical waters of Sarasota Bay and the Gulf and innumerable cultural amenities that include fine and performing arts, dining, and shopping.

Listed by Lisa Rooks Morris, Michael Saunders & Company, 941-544-3332

Description of the Light Box House by Jonathan Parks Architect

“Situated on a quarter acre lot, this 3,700 SF island residence was designed to reflect the owners’ desire for a minimalist home in which they could equally live and entertain.

The home is in Lido Shores, an enclave for modern design centered among the Gulf of Mexico and Sarasota Bay. Located across the street from the water, the owners were surprised by their property’s lack of water view. To accommodate their want of a connection to the water, the architect designed the floor plan to be formed around the pool.

Stepping-stones at the entryway lead over a reflecting pond while the entrance hall itself acts as bridge. All the main public and private spaces pivot around the pool, including the entry, circulation areas, the living room, kitchen, outdoor area, library, and master bedroom. Daily rituals, from rising in the morning to preparing meals to arriving home, maintain the owners’ desire for a relationship to the water.

The dining room, which centers on conversation, and rooms that are meant to be introspective, like his and her office, are more intimate, taking advantage of views looking out from the property.

A second challenge was to design the home on an oddly angled, trapezoidal lot. To achieve this, the architect designed the home so that the secondary spaces absorb the angle (his office, laundry room, library, and upstairs terrace). This composition allows the principal spaces the openness of a normal flow. The uncluttered design and palette of simple finishes creates a sense that the interior and exterior spaces are wide open, without ignoring privacy. Unencumbered doorways, multiple vistas, and transom windows grant natural light throughout the course of the day. The result is a home where a multitude of ideas and journeys are woven into a single experience.”

Photos below by Greg Wilson, 2013

Chuck Close (July 5, 1940 - August 20, 2021)

The great American artist Chuck Close has sadly died at the age of 81. Our dear friends, David and Laurie Adamson, collaborated with Close for many decades. In 2007, David and Laurie's Adamson Gallery in Washington, DC presented the "Chuck Close Tapestries" exhibition, which was our first introduction to the magnificent "Kate Moss" Jacquard Tapestry, a reprise of Close's 2003 daguerreotype.

"Chuck Close Tapestries", Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC, 2007

A wonderful review:

Artist’s portrait of Kate Moss dazzles

There is no substitute for experiencing Close's Kate in person.

Close goes above and beyond the challenge of making us see Moss as we've never seen her, without resorting to gimmicks. He does so by bringing something both old and new to portraiture. Moss is shot straight-on, head-and-shoulders against a black background in a 19th-century daguerrotype image.

But instead of printing the image on paper, Close translates it using digital weaving techniques to create a 103-by-79-inch jacquard tapestry made up of 17,800 threads. [Ed: The tapestry, edition of 10, was woven in Belgium by the Magnolia Tapestry Project.]

The combination of scale and texture, along with the image's mix of crisply detailed and blurry areas, gives Kate a palpability that stops you in your tracks. Once you've caught your breath and moved closer, you get lost in the subtleties of woven light and shadow.

Stand back again, and your attention returns to Moss, whom Close has apparently shot without makeup, zits and all. She's haunting and radiant. If you've never understood fashion photographers' obsession with her, you do now.

The tapestry floats like a classic Mark Rothko painting, but it's grown out of Close's decades of transposing photographic portraits to paintings, using grids to take images apart and then reconstruct them. The fact that this time the reconstruction happened by digital methods rather than by hand doesn't leave the viewer cold — just the opposite. Close's tapestry portrait of Moss feels at least as intimate as anything he's done on canvas. This is what a deep engagement with portraiture looks like. — Douglas Britt, Houston Chronicle, 2008

To our delight and amazement, friends Dan Snyder and Tom Breit bought the Kate tapestry and proudly hung the artwork in several of his Washington DC homes from 2007 – 2012.

Cleveland Park, Washington DC, 2007

Embassy Row, Washington, DC, 2011

In 2011, the tapestry was featured in the prestigious "Capital Portraits" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

"Capitol Portraits" Exhibition Reception, National Portrait Gallery, 2011

In 2012, we acquired the beautiful Kate tapestry and happily hung her in our newly-built home in Sarasota, Florida where she has resided ever since. Our one brief, but exciting, in-person encounter with Chuck Close was in May 2017 at the Children's Health Fund annual benefit dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

Kate unfurled, 2012

Tom and Nhan helped Elliott hang the tapestry with care

Kate Tapestry, J+E Home, Lido Shores, Sarasota, FL

'No. 3 of 10' label by The Magnolia Tapestry Project

Janet and Chuck Close, New York City, 2017

Safe at Home: Day 144

Lido Beach morning, walking not talking.

First Champagne Celebration Eleven Years Ago

Left to Right, John Pirman, Jon Partridge, Sam Dickson, Elliott, Janet, Debbe Dart, Jay Hunsberger and John Dart. Photographer Allan Hing.

Afternoon Delight

Relaxing with friends overlooking the mangroves and Pansy Bayou.

The beautiful pool at the Chapell-Lifeso home.

9-16-15 Shades of Gray

Sweet Summertime with Baxter

Thankful for Friends and Family

We enjoyed a fun, festive and delicious dinner with Sarasota friends Wendy and Michael, Dan and Tom, Baxter and Allan, along with Allan's friends from Atlanta, the Wong family: parents Peter and Lin and daughters Cara Joy, Katy and Coleen.

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." — Marcel Proust

Elliott and Tom carefully lower the turkey into the pot of hot oil

Table set for 12

Cheers!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cara Joy, Coleen, Kate, Chef Elliott, Katy and Baxter

Dan, Elliott, Allan, Kate, Tom, Wendy, Michael, Janet, Lin and Peter

Cuties! Coleen, Cara Joy and Katy

Scrumptious Menu

Unclaimed Thanksgiving leftover

Cooking Note: The 17lb. turkey took less than 35 minutes to cook and it was perfectly done - bravo chef Elliott!

9.1.11 - Happy September!

Activity is good: Mike the painter has been working early every day this week, making progress before the usual afternoon rain shower. The guys from Solar Source discussed with Elliott how they'll adhere the mats to the roof — as soon as the roof is finished which will happen when the stucco is done. Parrish Drilling stopped by to see how they'll fit (more like squeeze) their equipment into the back yard when they drill our well next Tuesday. Don the carpenter will be framing and squaring up closets and doors today, getting ready for the dry wall installation.

Below, a few photos from hither and yon.