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"Donna Karan\nWith Local Materials and Tropical Detailing, the Fashion Designer Dreams Up a Family Retreat in the British West Indies.\n\"I wondered, How can I bring Bali three and a half hours away?\" says fashion designer Donna Karan, who envisioned a simple, modern beach house on Parrot Cay, in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Architects and interior designers Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski collaborated with architect Cheong Yew Kuan to create the complex\u2014\"a marriage of East and West,\" Karan says\u2014which includes three villas and three open-air pavilions. An infinity pool sits above the first floor of the main house. Sunbrella fabric on canopy bed.\nKaran and her daughter Gabrielle in the pavilion atop the main house. \"Donna likes things that are comfortable, easy, friendly to the touch, the eye and the body,\" says Kozerski, who, with Bonetti, designed most of the furnishings. \"Everything is honest; we hate fakery and pastiche.\"\n\"Just being a part of nature, a guest of nature, was the most important key,\" remarks Karan. In the pavilion, as throughout, sliding doors and glazed walls minimize the boundaries between the interiors and the landscape.\nThe site plan. The buildings range from 4,000 to 7,000 square feet.\nAfrican art that Karan collected during her travels decorates the living room of one of the guesthouses. \"It really is an international environment,\" she says.\nDark-stained cedar walls and a rattan ceiling wrap the master bedroom of the spa villa in warm tones and textures.\nOn the deck, an enormous chaise looks out to the ocean. \"If I can't sleep on it or in it,\" Karan says of her furniture, \"I don't want to know from it.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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