Press

We wish to express our gratitude to all the magazines, editors and designers that have featured and continue to feature our work!


Modern Luxury Interiors Scottsdale ~ Design 9 Issue

We have been names one of nine winners in the second annual Design 9 Awards by Modern Luxury Interiors Scottsdale Magazine! Our Santa Barbara inspired home set on 5 acres in Paradise Valley won for Best Outdoor Living and features a pool, spa, animal barn, pond, putting green, garden, covered patios and more. Click below to view the digital issue.

Iconic Design Awards 2024

Iconic Life Magazine's 2nd Annual Iconic Design Awards Ceremony took place last weekend at Scottsdale Center for the Arts SMOCA. Both of our submissions won in the Best Transitional Custom Home over 7,500 sf category!

The Iconic award went to our 19,000sf modern Italian Villa in the heart of Paradise Valley. The Gold Award went to our Santa Barbara/Spanish Colonial Revival style ranch home set on 5 acres, also in the heart of Paradise Valley.

Our projects also won Silver in On the Boards more than 7,500sf for a Kitchen design and the Iconic Award for Best Dining Room for our Joshua Tree Spec home in PV.

"Faces of Design" in Modern Luxury Interiors and "Power Players" in Scottsdale Modern Luxury

This Summer featured two spotlight articles for our firm: "Faces of Design" in Modern Luxury Interiors May issue and "Power Players" in Scottsdale Modern Luxury June issue.

As founder of Candelaria Design Associates, Mark Candelaria has been a pillar of the Arizona design world for over 40 years, designing more than 2,500 homes across the country and around the world in a wide range of styles. “We’ve paid our dues and earned the respect of our contemporaries,” he says. “My job is to facilitate creating my clients’ dream homes and environments.”

For Candelaria, it’s the longstanding relationships he’s forged with clients over the course of his career that he counts as his greatest achievement. “It’s much more than delivering a set of plans,” he says. “These are potential lifelong partnerships and friendships.” This client-centric approach has led to annual “lifestyle tours” with vendors and clients and garnered the firm notable awards, including the Gold Nugget Home of the Year by Pacific Builders Council and Luxe Red Awards, Ranking Arizona magazine #1 Firm and Master of the Southwest.

Interiors Scottsdale - Contemporary PV Desert Dwelling

Together with Brimley Development & IMI Design, we created a tranquil family home with lots of earthy elements and chic touches. Read all about this new build in the 8-page article of Interiors Scottsdale Summer issue out now or digitally below.

Farewell to Principal Meredith Thomson

After eleven years here at Candelaria Design, Principal Meredith Thomson, AIA has made the difficult decision to go out on her own next month. As the Candelaria Design Team supports her professional growth, our personal connection remains strong. Meredith will be missed and will always be someone who inspires us!

Hear Mark & Meredith speak about her departure in the video below.

 

Principals Mark Candelaria, Evelyn Jung & Tim Mathewson

 

Scottsdale City Lifestyle | In the Kitchen with Mark Candelaria

Mark made the March cover of Scottsdale City Lifestyle Magazine! His featured article is titled "In the Kitchen with Mark Candelaria" and he talks about why the kitchen is often the most popular gathering spot in the home and design tips to make it a great one. He also shares his infamous Spanish Paella recipe so you can enjoy it in your own kitchen! Take a look at the entire digital issue below.

THE 6 MOST “ICONIC ARCHITECTS” IN ARIZONA

Candelaria Design Team 2024

Among these luminaries is local architect 2. Bennie Gonzalez, acclaimed for his contributions to Scottsdale’s municipal buildings, countless private residences, and structures across the state. Gonzalez’s distinctive Southwestern architectural style has had a profound influence, with imitations widespread. His work in southern Arizona, notably in Nogales, bears testimony to his creative prowess. As a Nogales native, I am well-acquainted with his artistic touch in the town.

Today, the architectural masterpieces of 3. Mark Candelaria and 4. Bing Hu are highly sought-after commodities, commanding top dollar. These homes are prominently displayed in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley. While their designs may be opulent and extravagant, the investment is undoubtedly worthwhile.

Arcadia Parisian VIP Home

This recently completed custom residence was designed for a large, blended family in the heart of Arcadia, AZ was the VIP home on Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine’s annual Home Tour. The design seamlessly unites the charm of a French chateau with the allure of Arizona’s breathtaking landscapes. The home sits on a nearly one-acre rectangular lot adjacent to Camelback Mountain. Indoor/outdoor living is celebrated through pocketing glass walls, side-by-side fireplaces and meticulously manicured English garden spaces with layered greens, flowers and a fountain.

Luxe Magazine: PV "Pet-Project" Cover Feature

This exquisite Santa-Barbara-style home set on 5 acres in PV was a very special "pet-project" for the homeowners. While the young couple don't yet have kids, they do have 4 dogs, goats, chickens, ducks and geese and are actively involved in a fostering neglected pregnant dogs! Together Mark C & Meredith Thomson, along with interior designer Wendy Black, contractor John Schultz and landscape designer Jeff Berghoff, created a home for the whole menagerie that was beautiful, comfortable and eclectic - just want the clients wanted. See more on our Instagram page @candelariadesign and in Luxe’s Nov/Dec issue on newsstands now!

The Boulders Beauty

ICONIC LIFE ARIZONA current issue features a beautiful modern Mediterranean style home Mark designed in Carefree's The Boulders Golf community. The home has traditional lines, but celebrates our bright, informal Arizona lifestyle with spaces you can live in indoors and out. "The home's warm style is thanks to a hands on collaboration between the owners, who are transplants from Alaska, and a stellar team of local design talents." The design team included Builder Dick Lloyd⁠ Custom Homes, Hyde Park⁠ Interiors, and Landscape by Greey | Pickett.

Luxe Video Interview on Fitzgerald's French Estate

Luxe Magazine interviews principals Mark Candelaria & Meredith Thomson about this incredible French Manor estate we designed for former AZ Cardinal Larry Fitzgerald.

“Mark takes an artist’s approach to his profession. He is a sculptor who converts visions and ideas onto a set of drawings that evolve into a three-dimensional structure—a home. He performs his craft with intuition and precision, while emphasizing the principles of classical form and functionality.” - Larry Fitzgerald

Good Things Come in Small Packages

Top landscape designer Jeff Berghoff and architect Mark Candelaria craft a Modernist jewel box home on a tight lot in Phoenix. “On a leafy street in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix, a rustic wood door serves as a portal to a secret world—an airy, minimalist, light-filled house that embraces a carefully plotted landscape, shaded by sycamore trees and given structure through cactus and agaves.” …

19 Pages of Coverage in Modern Luxury Interiors Summer Outdoor Issue

We have 19 pages of coverage in Modern Luxury Interiors Summer Outdoor Issue! Between a cover feature of a home we designed a decade ago that was recently remodeled, to a new home we designed with Mark's wife's interior design company Earth and Images two feature pieces on our firm and two ads for other companies that feature homes we designed, this seasonal publication is covered in Candelaria Design creations!! Click below to see them all.

PV Estate, with first-of-its-kind car-bar technology, sells for $5.15 million

As the luxury market continues to be in high demand in Arizona, The Grigg’s Group sold a Paradise Valley listing for $5.15 million. The 6,306-square-foot estate, built by Cullum Homes and located in the Village at Mountain Shadows community, was the first home of its kind to bring a cutting-edge car-bar technology to the state and features five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a theater, wine cellar and many more luxury amenities.

“The car elevator, which takes each vehicle into the showroom, was a major selling point for this home,” said agent Scott Grigg of The Grigg’s Group at Realty Executives.

“This was the first-ever home of its kind to feature such a technology and it has set the standard for a lot of new luxury builds coming to the area.”