Worlds Away

Resort-inspired retreats abound at this year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach, transporting visitors to visionary waterside Edens.

- GRACE HAYNES

Fitzgerald's American Idyll Jay Gatsby would raise a Champagne toast to the white-hot waterfront lounge by designer Billy Ceglia, who conjured a neutral palette as tailored and refined as the enigmatic character's signature summer suit. Beneath the loggia (with blue-painted ceilings for never-ending sunny days), chinoiserie seating and a treillage screen nod to traditional Floridian decorating motifs, while the pool deck's chaises and plush ottomans offer sunbathers first-class vistas of Lake Worth Lagoon. Leave it to the emerald foliage and caftan-clad guests to bring Palm Beach's boisterous color.

A New Era of Glamping