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"John Travolta\nThe Actor Parlays His Passion For Airplanes into a Bold Family Home in Florida\nJohn Travolta and Kelly Preston at their Florida home.\n\n\"I can't call it modern\u2014it's really a midcentury-style home,\" actor John Travolta says of the Florida house he shares with his wife, actress Kelly Preston. \"John had a vision of how he wanted everything to be,\" says designer Sherri James, of Michael James Design Team in Southern California. \"We just implemented his ideas.\"\nA games table in the great room.\n\n\"It was always John's dream to have planes in his front yard\u2014to practically be able to pull up to the house\u2014so that when you wanted to go to dinner, all you'd have to do was step out the door, get on the plane and whisk off,\" Kelly Preston says of her aviation-mad husband John Travolta.\nThe front drive of the Travolta house.\n\nTravolta's vintage Thunderbird is in the front drive of the residence, which was designed by architect Dana Smith. Construction of the house lasted two years, but \"the plan took, on and off, about six years,\" Travolta says. \"We moved into the guest quarters for a while to oversee it.\"\nThe great room.\n\nCurved window walls define the great room, which looks onto the tarmac. \"Michael Eisner was our first dinner guest,\" says Travolta, a seasoned pilot and owner of two jets. \"He looked at our planes and said, \" \u2018My God, I get it. Within an hour we can be on our way to Paris.' \" Above the mantelpiece is a 1967 work by Alexander Calder.\nThe entrance hall.\n\n\"This is an overbuilt home,\" Travolta says. \"The walls are thicker than they need to be, and there's more metal in it than there needs to be.\" The entrance hall includes a floor motif that Travolta designed himself.\nA jet parked in a plane pavilion.\n\n\"You can be the ultimate eccentric, like I am, and bring in a 707,\" he says. \"But you can also bring in any corporate jet or airliner.\" A Gulfstream II jet is parked in one of two plane pavilions. Although the property came equipped with a 7,500-foot runway, Travolta extended the taxiway to reach the house."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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