Just 15 miles from Charleston, every day is a day at the beach. Everywhere you look, it's sand and palms, ocean and palms, sunshine and palms.
In the palm of a palm tree is how one feels in designers Kevan and Funda Hoertdoerfer's residential commission on the Isle of Palms. The house stands ten feet high on hurricane-protective pilings, resembling, as one visitor said, a cross between a tree house and a church. And it's true, there's something both sacred and playful about the place, introduced early on by the Jacob's ladder entrance and the cantilevered roof-line that tips its hat to the three-tiered deck.
