Jewel & Vincent Centanni, owners
The Firm
Ivy is a vertically integrated design-build and development firm with work across Louisiana, the Gulf Coast, and select markets beyond. We facilitate every phase of a project — from the earliest conversations about land and vision through architectural design, construction, material selection, and final delivery. That level of continuity is not incidental to what we do. It is the foundation of it.
The Foundation
The belief that the person who understands a vision should be the one who stewards it has guided this firm across three generations of practice. It is not a philosophy that was written down and framed — it is one that was lived, refined, and passed forward through decades of work at the highest level of the craft. By the time Ivy was founded, that instinct was already deeply inherited.
What Ivy represents is not simply the continuation of that lineage, but its evolution — a firm built to meet the standard that discerning clients have always deserved and rarely found in one place.
The Creative Direction
The design sensibility at the heart of Ivy is shaped by a background that few in this industry share. Years spent across luxury hospitality, travel, and high-end events — experiencing design at its most considered, in markets and contexts far beyond residential construction — produced an aesthetic that is cultured, restrained, and deeply influenced by what remains timeless.
It is an eye that does not follow what is current. It recognizes what is enduring, and builds toward that with intention. The result is homes that feel neither trend-driven nor time-stamped — spaces that seem to have always existed, and that will continue to feel right long after the moment they were made.
That point of view informs every project Ivy undertakes, from the first sketch to the final installation.
The Standard
The question that shapes every Ivy project is a simple one: who inherits this home?
It is asked at the beginning and returned to at every significant decision along the way. It governs the materials considered, the details resolved, the craftsmanship applied in places that may never be seen. It is, ultimately, the reason clients who have worked with Ivy do not need to look elsewhere.
A home built to this standard does not simply serve its owners well. It outlasts them gracefully.