Équipée pour les réceptions, la cuisine s’ouvre sur la terrasse. Villa Kelly in the Basse Californie residential district of Cannes provides its occupants with 260m² of luxury, comfort and technology. Trends, trends... Today, and even more for tomorrow, they tellus we should feel as good at work as we do at home. Exit rigid office furniture, enter comfortable, welcoming armchairs, that's the watchword in hi-tech businesses. This is the spirit in which Villa Kelly offers its guests, room after room, a work environment very different from cold seminar rooms and convention centres. Here nothing is impersonal. Warmcolours, noble materials, refined decoration... good taste flaunts itself and enables everyone to enjoy pleasant surroundings while they work. The office with its Guadarte furniture and Rubelli fabrics, which furnish the entire house, is therefore a room that encourages reflection and lacks nothing needed for demonstrating or sharing ideas : video projector, wifi connection and the rest. Then those who wish can continue their conversations around the magnificent wood coffee table in the spacious 90m² lounge. To peruse a file or promote a project you can choose your ambience : bright light from ceiling spotlights or more relaxing opalescent light from the crystal-drop chandeliers. Home cinema, giant screen... in the lounge hi-tech is present and correct but doesn't impose itself, and there lies the real magic of the place. This illusion of being at home continues right through to the veranda kitchen that opens straight onto the terrace. It's modern and welcoming, a far cry from the "lab kitchen" concept with strict lines and neutral colours. Plus the attractive central island is perfect for enjoying a quick coffee but also provides everything necessary for preparing business dinners since its traditional facilities are accompanied by those of a semi-professional kitchen : steam oven, Japanese cooking plate and waste disposal unit not to mention the wine cellar, which can only improve any dinner or reception. In short this is a house good to live and work in and where technology serves comfort. Perhaps this is the very concept of homes of the future. Esprit contemporain dans la chambre maître Misaki. novembre 2008 www.cotemagazine.com PLACE HABITAT 79