Geometric lines and a wave-inspired curved entryway define the exterior of this contemporary custom home. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
The putting green lines the side of the property. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
The bar in the media room. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
The wine room features floating bottle displays set against backlit semiprecious white quartz. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
The gym. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
The dance studio serves a multi-discipline fitness room. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
The office. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
Framing the back wall of the gourmet kitchen are built-in appliances and custom cabinetry. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
Inside the open-concept great room, a disappearing glass wall frames uninterrupted coastal views. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
The primary bedroom. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
The boutique-style walk-in closet. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
The primary bathroom. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
A glass-railed terrace outside of the primary suite offers sweeping coastal views. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
This custom-built Dana Point residence in The Strand at Headlands is on the market for $59.995 million. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)
A custom beachfront home in Dana Point’s guard-gated The Strand at Headlands is on the market for $59.995 million.
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The contemporary 11,169-square-foot residence has five bedrooms and eight bathrooms. Set at the end of a cul-de-sac, the quarter-acre property offers 104 feet of ocean frontage, among the widest on the Orange County coast, according to the listing. An adjacent city easement expands the yard, adds privacy and secures 60 feet of unobstructed coastal views.
Records show the owner is KKS Twins LLC, a Washington limited liability company managed by Cesar Scolari, chairman and chief executive officer of warehouse services company Merit Logistics, bought the homesite for $10 million in August 2016.
Architect Mark Radford designed the three-story house, completed in 2023.
A curved exterior wall at the entrance evokes a rolling wave, introducing a design motif that continues throughout the home. All three floors have high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling glass walls that open to terraces.
The open-concept great room anchors the main level, where the living area transitions into the dining area and a minimalist gourmet kitchen. At its center, a breakfast bar overlaps the island. The back wall features integrated appliances and handle-free cabinetry.
There’s a private wing with a study room and a separate office.
A circular skylight crowns a floating, open-tread staircase that pairs with an elevator to connect the home.
Upstairs, the primary suite has a fireplace in the bedroom, a separate sitting room, a spa-inspired bathroom with a freestanding soaking tub and a boutique-inspired walk-in closet.
The lower level packs in the entertainment and wellness. There’s a media room, wet bar, wine room with floating bottle displays set against backlit semiprecious quartz, billiards lounge, multi-discipline fitness studio, gym and sauna.
Glass walls connect the space to a loggia and beyond to a resort-caliber backyard, where the oceanfront grounds feature a pool, waterfall spa, tanning deck, outdoor kitchen and dining area.
A putting green lines the side of the property, taking advantage of the adjacent easement.
Highlights also include full Crestron home automation, solar panels with battery backup, a four-car garage with golf cart parking and access to the community beach club.
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Jeff Golden and Tim Smith of Coldwell Banker Realty hold the listing. Golden also handled the initial sale while serving as the development’s director of sales.
At the time, the master-planned community centered on custom estates built to buyers’ specifications, with the development team managing projects from plan development through construction completion and securing California Coastal Commission permits in advance.
The development’s partnerships with leading Southern California architects and builders gave buyers broad design flexibility.
“Unlike many legacy beachfront communities, where homes were constructed decades ago on narrower lots with more compartmentalized floor plans, The Strand was intentionally designed from the beginning to meet the expectations of today’s luxury buyer,” Golden said. “Its wider oceanfront homesites allow for substantially more frontage along the Pacific, enabling architects to design homes with significantly more rooms oriented toward the ocean.”
Golden said California’s strict coastal development regulations and the scarcity of entitled oceanfront land make communities such as The Strand virtually impossible to replicate today.
“Opportunities to create a new beachfront community of this caliber are essentially gone,” he said. “That enduring scarcity, combined with exceptional design and an irreplaceable location, is precisely why estates such as (the listing) are so well positioned within Orange County’s evolving ultra-luxury market.”
The listing comes as Orange County’s ultra-luxury market pushes into new territory following the record-setting $110 million off-market sale of a newly built mansion in Laguna Beach’s guard-gated Emerald Bay.
Developers and custom-home builders have been creating a new generation of coastal estates and development opportunities. Recent offerings range from a Newport Beach harborfront home listed at $69.998 million with dock space for a superyacht to a $95 million multi-parcel Laguna Beach compound with development potential.
“The recent record-setting sales represent more than extraordinary prices, they confirm that Orange County has emerged as one of the nation’s premier ultra-luxury real estate markets,” Golden said. “Within that landscape, (this home) is exceptionally well positioned.”
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