When the Guy Peterson-designed “Perforated House” on Orange Avenue at Prospect Street in Sarasota was completed this year, readers of the Herald-Tribune’s story on the “controversial” — Peterson’s word — house wanted to know what it looked like on the inside.
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Some of them got the chance on Oct. 19-20 when the fledgling Center for Architecture Sarasota held an inaugural reception at the home, which is owned by Gary and Beth Spencer. The event was followed by sold-out home tours the next day.
Guests saw a tastefully decorated house with modernist, but colorful and comfortable, furnishings. The inside-outside nature of the house, facilitated by an 80-foot wall of folding glass doors, makes it an ideal space for a reception. Beyond the walls: a screened pool area with lap pool, and a separate guest apartment.
The living room is accented by a painting inspired by the children’s book “The Big Orange Splot,” which is about individualism as expressed through one’s home and how it is painted.
The kitchen is almost one space with the living room. Upstairs is a comfortable loft/library space, which looks down on the living room. On the third level, Gary Spencer is making good progress building a fleet of model sailing ships.
The house’s fourth level is a rooftop observation deck that permits views of downtown Sarasota.
— Harold Bubil
