Ligon Flynn Architecture’s principal designer, the late
Ligon Flynn, and project architect, Michael Moorefield,
then an intern, designed the nautilus-inspired retreat
and studio built in 1980 by father-and-son builders
Ted and Mike Crews for artist and furniture designer
Bob Timberlake. Flynn’s original conceptual drawing,
shown below, reveals a main house and guesthouse
that anchor a high bluff on the backside of Figure
Eight Island. Today, the pair of dwellings are linked
by paved pathways and a wooden ramp beneath a
canopy of old growth live oak, amid mature palms,
leafy fatsia and a lush carpet of ferns.
The main house floorplan follows the ascending
spiral of a chambered nautilus shell.
Interior designer Sherry Black was hired to refurbish
the 33-year-old summer house for the home’s second
owners, a couple from Whiteville, North Carolina, and
their extended family.
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— Ligon Flynn
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