Stepping inside the penthouse condominium owned by Beryl Raff and Paul Russell is tantamount to entering the finest stateroom on a luxury cruise ship—a cruise ship with a permanent port of call at Royal Palm Pointe. A wall of retractable glass doors that open to a 28-foot deck overlooking the Indian River Lagoon offers panoramic views of sky, water, island, mainland, and frolicking wildlife that are, in Russell’s words, “pure theater.”
But the showstopping views are not the only featured attraction in this dramatic riverfront renovation, which began shortly after the couple purchased the property in 2021. The three-bedroom, three-bath, 3,500-square-foot home fully embraces the couple’s passion for cooking, entertaining, and collecting contemporary art.
Raff and Russell, who also own properties in Kansas City and Cabo San Lucas, had been searching for something a bit larger than the oceanfront condos available in Sea Oaks, where Raff and her late husband had first purchased in 2010. “When COVID hit, we decamped there for several months and ran our companies,” says Russell, a self-described serial entrepreneur, world traveler, and art collector.