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by Mary Beth Schwartz
When you envision your dream home, what do you see? Is it a New England Saltbox? A Long Island vacation home? A Bucks County manor? Mine would be a Cape May Victorian. I would be torn between the Eastland Style with its ornate spindles and knobs; the Second Empire Style with its high mansard roof; and the Italian Style with it low roof, wide eaves, and a designer cupola on top. Dreams are the fuel for the custom homes designed by Bela Rossmann of POLO Design Build.
In business for 25 years, POLO Design Build has designed and built one-of-a-kind residential additions, renovations, and homes in Amagansett, NY, Connecticut, Maine, Manhattan, Princeton, NJ, Bucks County, the Main Line, Miami, FL, and Montecito, CA. These projects include estate homes, family compounds, townhouses, and apartments. The company’s philosophy is to allow clients to benefit from POLO’s experience during the design/build process, culminating in a meticulously crafted home that embodies the desired lifestyle of their clients. “We measure success on how well we meet the needs of our clients by matching the proper designs, materials, and execution of each project. In-house, POLO Design Build oversees all land preservation and development, construction management, as well as architectural, interior design, and landscape plans to ensure the highest degree of integrity and success,” says Bela Rossmann.
With POLO Design Build, there is a return to the Gilded Age— a creation of museum quality masterpieces, following the traditions of fine art and architecture. They are a unique firm in that they do not offer a signature style. POLO possesses an inordinate and extreme attention to detail and offers unlimited diversified periods and designs. “We have completed or will perform the research on any style. We specialize in turnkey productions, which most firms no longer accommodate.”
POLO Design Build designed and built a Craftsman home outside of New Hope. According to Rossmann, it is considered to be one of the ten finest homes built in the Greene and Greene Craftsman Style anywhere in the United States in the last century. POLO Design Build was selected to design an oasis and home where the owners could raise their three children, and then be happy there for the next phase of their lives. “As the project was nearing completion, the scope of the work was expanded where we designed and built 80 percent of the furniture for the residence, a feat that is rarely contracted for. This attention to detail is hardly ever seen today, except for a very few who are fortunate to contract POLO or a small number of nationally recognized architectural and design/build firms.”
To finish reading about Dream Homes, turn to page 104 in the Fall 2015 issue of Bucks County Magazine.