In 2016 they found the single-storey contemporary house designed by the architect Gary Tobey. “It’s a mix of amazing lines and contemporary design, but at the same time it has traditional Hawaiian accents in there, with simplicity and luxury,” North says.
In 2007, the celebrated stunt helicopter pilot Fred North was flying a sequence for the movie Tropic Thunder above the Hawaiian island of Kauai. “I flew all over the island,” recalls North, whose film credits include Mission: Impossible, The Fast and the Furious and James Bond: Spectre, along with roughly 200 others. “That’s when I discovered Kauai, and it blew my mind,” he says. “The scenery is from another world.”
Soon after, North and his wife Peggy began to look for a holiday house for themselves and their children. For multiple years, he says, the family rented houses as they sought out their ideal home. “We didn’t just want a house,” he says. “We wanted this house.”
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