Happy Wednesday friends! Check out this article in the Robb Report that talks about Doc Aquarium building this beautiful custom tank! We designed, installed, and maintain it! Design Decisions change midstream. On architect Lester Tobias’s drawing board, PowerCad and 3D Sketch, what started as a display and tasting area for a tequila collection finished as this study. Celebrating client Bill Chadwick’s penchant for the life aquatic and the house’s on-the-surf perch at Malibu’s Carbon Beach, the transition made particular sense once “we decided not to put the aquarium in the living room and found an adjacent space for the tequila storage,” explains Tobias.There was even aesthetic spillover.The rose compass pattern in the parquet floor began as a complement to a motif in Tobias’ custom design for the tequila tasting table, and remained because it was congruous with the nautical theme. For Chadwick, a founder and managing partner of the real estate investment company Chadwick Saylor and former chairman of the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission, what gets his juices flowing fast is water. “Bill is big on aquariums,” says Tobias, “and he insisted that it be as large as possible.”The 1,000-gal- lon tank, home to a living reef as well as creatures of the deep (including a harlequin tusk, mappa puffer, yellow-mouth moray eel, leopard shark and blue spot- ted stingray), was designed and installed by Kevin Phoenix of Doc Aquarium, and Tobias set it low to the floor to optimize the perspective from Chadwick’s desk.“Because the ocean vistas permeate every major room in the house, and the view is so captivating, I needed a study where I could remove myself from the allure of the sea when I need to focus on a large dealfromhome,”saysChadwick.“The aquarium is an obvious yet calming reminder of the ocean, but it does not distract me from my work.”
