Dean’s Grange

MARKET

Residential

PRODUCTS

Premium Kilimanjaro

LOCATION

Malibu, CA
Aerial view of Dean's Grange estate in Malibu with Endureed Kilimanjaro synthetic thatch roofing
Cape Dutch architecture has always been a study in contrast: whitewashed walls carved into ornate, sculptural gables, set beneath a roofline that looks almost soft by comparison. Dean’s Grange brings that centuries-old South African vocabulary to the California coast, and it is the roof, finished in Endureed’s Kilimanjaro profile, that completes the illusion. The deep, dense brown thatch reads with the same weight and shadow as the reed roofs found on the original Constantia estates, curving gracefully over dormers and hips in a way few other materials could replicate.
What makes the pairing work is restraint. The gables do the ornamentation. The thatch simply anchors everything beneath them, its texture catching Malibu light the same way it would catch light along the Cape Winelands.
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