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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.”

Secret Life of an Architect

Paradise Valley City Lifestyle magazine’s March issue features a 4-page article showcasing renowned architect Mark Candelaria’s other talent - cooking. It highlights all of the client dinners he has hosted in his home, his office’s showroom kitchen, and of course in the client’s completed kitchens he’s designed. Many of his clients choose special occasions like birthdays and anniversaries for Mark’s special meal as it really is memorable. In fact, it’s gotten to the point where dinners hosted by Mark now raise thousands of dollars at fundraising events!! Mark says, “It’s a great way to build and create great relationships.” He also loves it because unlike architecture where it takes years to complete a home, “I can cook a dinner in two to three hours and get the same feeling of satisfaction.”

Luxe Cover Feature January 2023

Starting the year off strong with one of our homes on the cover of Luxe Magazine! This cover article features an interior refresh of a Spanish Colonial style home Mark Candelaria designed back in 2005 in PV!

“There’s so much soul in Mark’s architecture, and we wanted to keep that: plasterwork; the richness of the Saltillo tiles, wood and iron details; the brick staircase; the arches," said designer Lauren Wallace. While there weren’t many structural changes needed, the team “updated the lighting, countertops, wall tile and paint, and cleaned up some of the more ornate detailing throughout the residence,” general contractor Frank DiMaggio notes. ⁠

Forty Years of Architectural Excellence

November’s issue of Green Living Magazine features a profile piece on Mark Candelaria, AIA, as he celebrates four decades of client-focused residential and commercial architecture — including green-inspired projects. Read about Mark’s young start as an artist and architect and how he grew into the well-known and loved talent he is today.

Sources for Design Magazine: Icons Mark & Isabel Candelaria

Husband & wife Mark & Isabel are featured in the 35th issue of Sources for Design Magazine’s Icon Issue! They will be honored along with 7 other design teams for their residential remodel of a dated Paradise Valley home at the Magazine’s Premier Party September 7th in Scottsdale. Take a look at the beautiful feature below.