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features 64 72 80 88
Mission Statement Vivid Living Fine Lines Unplug and Play
COVER PHOTO BY A Sydney architect’s A multigenerational In the Norwegian Though its owners are
Joe Fletcher family home is an icon of retreat in upstate New mountains, a cabin with designers in the tech
environmentally focused York experiments with an a sod roof has a hand- world, a revamped Eichler
ABOVE
design—complete with its unusually open plan made wooden facade in Silicon Valley is all
The founders of Mork
Ulnes Architects designed own ecosystem. and eye-popping color. inspired by farm fencing. about the garden.
their own ski cabin in TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT
Norway with a distinctive Elana Castle David Sokol Tiffany Orvet Mike Chino
wooden facade. PHOTOS PHOTOS PHOTOS PHOTOS
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14 Community
112 Sourcing
See it? Want it? Need it?
Buy it!
116 One Last Thing
Designer Bethan Laura Wood
explains how a colorful bit
of kitsch inspired her love of
all things brightly woven.
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23 Modern World 40 Conversation 56 Focus
For our annual roundup of new Famed trend forecaster A San Francisco couple push
products for the smart home, we Lidewij Edelkoort tells us why the color envelope with their
focus on objects and devices in the future our homes will seriously cyan townhouse on
that lessen your house’s ecological look primitive and you might Telegraph Hill.
footprint—from thermostats and not be able to distinguish TEXT BY Deborah Bishop
LED lighting to a new composting the countryside from the city. PHOTOS BY Joe Fletcher
garbage disposal. We also spoke TEXT BY William Hanley
with eight design visionaries ILLUSTRATION BY Sam Kerr
96 Prefab
who are changing the way we
build for the better. Concrete bridge components
46 Interiors
EDITED BY Nicole Anderson pave the way to an uncluttered life
An apartment in Valencia, for a systems engineer in Uruguay.
Spain, is brought back to life with TEXT BY Lindsay J. Warner
the help of a pair of pastel hues. PHOTOS BY Leonardo Finotti
TEXT BY Kelly Vencill Sanchez
34 Smart PHOTOS BY Gerald Kiernan
Don’t have the space or time to 100 Renovation
cultivate a vegetable garden? Big 50 Outside On a traditional London
appliance brands are making it street, an overhaul turns an eye-
easy to grow food in your home. What started as a garage
sore into an updated version
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy renovation turns into an outdoor
TEXT BY of its neighbors.
Jay Cover retreat in a Boston suburb.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY TEXT BYIain Aitch
TEXT BYMarni Elyse Katz
PHOTOS BY Jack Hobhouse
PHOTOS BY Nat Rea
and Peter Vanderwarker
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 editor’s letter

There is a fairly standard vision of the smart home.

Systems silently automate tasks from temperature control
to grocery orders in the background as our virtual assis-
tants guide us effortlessly through the day. Whether this
sounds like a seamless dream or a privacy-compromising
nightmare, the reality for most people is a bit different.
We rely on a constellation of more-or-less connected de-
vices and apps. Some refuse to talk with one another with-
out a complicated intervention. Others may be “smart,”
but for reasons more interesting to engineers and market-
ers than users—do we really want to get phone alerts from
every last appliance in our kitchens? The best new tools
respond to real needs. Right now, one of the most urgent
is reducing the ecological burden created by our houses.
For our annual special section focused on the smart
home (Modern World, p. 23), we chose to highlight technol-
ogies that reduce waste, use recycled materials, and give
us the information we need to keep our houses running
with less damage to the planet. Some of them are fresh to
market, like Hydraloop’s home water-recycling system,
which won a sustainability award at this year’s CES. Others
are tested and proven, like Tala’s LED bulbs, which are
as creatively designed as they are efficient—I’ve been a fan
of the London lighting company since its first collection
debuted in 2015.
We’re also featuring several homes that inventively
offset their ecological impact. The most radical is
Australian architect Clinton Cole’s new house (p. 64),
which advertises its environmental concern with a street-
side wall covered in solar panels and greenery spilling
out of its facade—to say nothing of the second-floor
fish pond that plays a key role in the home’s ecosystem.
As climate-change alarms sound louder than ever, it’s
time to revise our dreams of the smart home. Instead of
viewing it as a cocoon—an inward-looking support system
for our ease and comfort—we should measure a home’s

A Smarter, intelligence by how efficient it is and how well it responds

to its environment. As designer Yves Béhar suggests
(p. 32), we can’t make our homes more sustainable by

Better Home buying an ad hoc array of gadgets. We need to think about

how we embed climate-conscious technology into their
infrastructure from the start. From construction to
demolition, houses are a major source of carbon emis-
sions, and improving how we build them can help reverse
the larger forces of climate change. As we say on the
cover, better homes can be a big part of the solution.

William Hanley, Editor-in-Chief

william@dwell.com
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“That’s one of the tightest two-car garages I’ve ever seen.”
A mechanical lift
allowed homeowners
Mardi and Anton
Watts to meet
the two-car-garage
requirement in
Hermosa Beach,
California, without
giving up a lot
of space [“It Takes a
Neighborhood,”
January/February].
COMMUNITY
Feedback
Thanks to Peter Gluck for choosing
a fórcola [Venetian oarlock] for
One Last Thing [January/February].
Tucked away in our Florida room
is another example of this beauti-
fully functional sculpture. As a
summer student in Italy in 1998, I
purchased it from Paolo Brandolisio,
who was one of Giuseppe Carli’s
students (and took over the Carli
shop). An inspiration ever since,
it has often been drawn into evening
conversations about travel, art,
design, and happiness.
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comments
—Fred Hall via Dwell.com
I’m curious to know who made the
windows in “Creative Potential”
[Renovation, January/February]. In
most new construction or renova-
tions, windows are the most impor-
tant elements of the design.
BOZENA WACLAWIK VIA DWELL.COM
EDITORS’ NOTE: The windows in
the project you’re referring to are
by Blomberg. We include as many
credits as we can in our captions.
Along with those, additional credits
are often listed in Sourcing, which in
this issue can be found on page 112.
Instagram
Our top Instagram posts
included this A-frame
in a redwood forest north
of San Francisco. Itching
to do a personal project
but wary of the city’s real
estate market, designers
Brit and Daniel Epperson
scooped up the Sonoma
County cabin. Brit, founder
of Studio Plow, and Daniel,
design director of Rapt
Studio, reworked the 1974
home into a retro retreat
with a bright white interior
to contrast its dark facade.
Re: Doorbell Cameras
I think that we are I love that wherever I I think it’s a great
setting in place a am it lets me know security feature to
massive surveillance when someone comes bring peace of mind to
system pleasantly to the door, usually homeowners.
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disguised and sold to a delivery person @CAPITALSPACES
us as another way to or maybe the house-
make our lives easier. keeper. No privacy Depends on who’s ring-
@NOTHINGMAN_ issues for me. ing whose doorbell.
STUDIOS @GREGW_OREGON @SOMEDRIFTERS
I love it. I’m convinced
it has stopped solicitors POLL
from bothering me. I
haven’t had a single one
in almost two months.
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It’s definitely made it
harder to be anony-
mous. We like to take
cookies to a family
we’re thinking about
and ring the doorbell
and run. Now we
have to go in disguise!
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Love it or hate it: doorbell cameras
Hate! My co-worker
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For some it’s a cultural given, for others a
practical choice. We asked readers to weigh in on
forgoing footwear indoors.
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“My household members don’t wear I don’t do it right

now in my house, but
If you have the rule,
make sure you
I was raised in
Hawaii and it is
shoes in the house, but I would I should. I’ve done stock up on slippers kokua [the spirit of
this in the past and or slides. help and kindness]
never make a guest feel uncomfortable it’s amazing how Dan Mecchi to take shoes off.
if they chose to keep them on.” much cleaner your
house is when you My perception of a
I have a basket
of slippers by the
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Shelton Dickson generally involves for my guests.
Love, love, love no I have a “shoes on” I have a disability and moisture, mud, snow, Adrienne Malia
shoes. Eight years as house. I understand walk with crutches. People who wear and the preservation
expats in Tokyo— and appreciate those I need shoes on all shoes inside are of wall-to-wall OMG, smelly feet
no turning back. who have a “shoes the time to be able to truly, truly insane. carpeting, which are the worst!
@Tojourneywise off” policy. I just walk. No shoes is @Nomadapequena is common in some Soo Coughlan
really want to know not an option for me. older houses in
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We Love? Share it at when they chanced upon the island of
dwell.com/add-a-home Vinalhaven, Maine. At the time, they were
searching for a suitable location to build
a house that would serve as a year-round
retreat and a second office for their
Manhattan-based practice. “We thought
nobody had heard about this place,” says
Maria. “Turns out, lots of our friends were
keeping it a secret.”
Their friends’ silence was understand-
able. The island is wooded and remote,
blanketed in spruce trees and more than
an hour by ferry from the mainland. Its
natural splendor won the couple over,
especially when they found a plot of
craggy land overlooking a cove to build on.
Along with their appreciation for the
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antiques and mid-
century furnishings
Colonial architecture. “We loved how adds personality to the
white-box interior of
those old buildings have a severity but also
a cottage in Vinalhaven,
a grace to them,” says Maria. The scheme Maine (opposite,
they came up with joins a cape-style vol- top). The front door
ume and a saltbox house with a screened- is painted in Webster
Green by Benjamin
in porch that offers uninterrupted views of
Moore (opposite,
the sky and shore. bottom). All the kitchen
The structure for the screens was cabinets and appli-
the couple’s own invention. They knew ances are consolidated
it needed to be lightweight, simple to into one island (right).
Locally sourced
install, and easy to maintain. They chose eastern cedar shingles
an aluminum frame, held together with cover the exterior
a heavy-duty aerospace adhesive, and and roof (below).
slide-in-slide-out screens—60 in all. The
screens can be removed from the frame
with an eight-foot ladder and about an
hour of time, sparing them damage from
Maine’s heavy snows come winter.
“We wanted the openness of a summer
home with the performance of an all-
seasons house,” says Maria. “We were our
own guinea pigs with this system, but it’s
been so successful that we’ve started incor-
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TEXT BY
LINDSAY J. WARNER
Anna Saint Pierre
The inventor of Granito explains why we should
recycle our old buildings—right where they stand.
In Paris, as in most cities where the
architecture has stood the test of
time, aesthetes bemoan the inevitable
renovation projects that replace aging,
stately facades with updated materi-
als. Yet modern-day energy efficiency
requires it, and, well, time marches on.
But when Paris-based designer and
doctoral researcher Anna Saint Pierre
saw the massive granite slabs that
were slated to be replaced with thermo-
efficient metal panels in the conversion
of an old building into a new co-
working hub, she started asking herself:
Could that granite—all 182 tons of it—
be repurposed on-site? And was there
a way to create a beautiful new material
from it that conserves resources and
preserves history all at once?
Saint Pierre was aptly situated to
experiment with the concept, given
her work-study position at SCAU, the
architectural firm tasked with updating
the building. In collaboration with her
colleagues, Saint Pierre came up with
a way to accomplish her idea for recy-
cling in situ—by treating the renovation
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site as a quarry, sourcing rubble from
out of its depths, and breaking it up
further to mix with concrete and make
a terrazzo flooring she calls Granito.
Both poured and polished on-site,
Granito incorporates varying sizes
of granite, from the easily identifiable
fragmented blocks found in flooring
destined for the building’s entrance to
the finely ground particles on the
lowest floor, where the mineral quite
literally has been returned to dust.
Saint Pierre’s Granito is scheduled
to debut in December 2020, when the
atrium floor will be unveiled. But the
concept of in situ recycling is already
being applied to future SCAU projects,
and Saint Pierre foresees its long-term
benefits. “The building sector repre-
sents fifty percent of natural resource
consumption and almost forty percent of
waste production within European
territories,” she says. “In situ recycling
can be seen as a solution to this mass
production of rubble. And as such, the
demolished building physically informs
the concept and look of the new one.”
MATERIALS
+
RECYCLING
Materials matter.
This ensemble represents
innovative ways of
processing and repurposing
the stuff that
things are made of.
PATIO
Fabrics meant to stand up to
weather are often made of
harmful materials, but designer
Karina Nielsen Rios spent
three years developing the highly
durable and sustainable
Trevira CS yarn for Patio, Kvadrat’s
collection of outdoor textiles.
Available in an array of
colors, these eco-friendly fabrics
are water-repellent, fast-
drying, and fluorocarbon-free.
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RAY SCONCE
COLLECTION
Stickbulb, the New York City brand
with the straightforward
name, is known for sourcing
much of its material
from demolished buildings
and decommissioned
water towers. This minimalist
collection pairs lean
wood channels with LED lights.
3
UPCYCLED SIDE
TABLE
Icelandic designer
Jón Helgi Hólmgeirsson’s side
table for Fólk is composed
of geometric forms made
of upcycled wool textile boards,
recycled steel, and FSC-
certified ash wood. It comes
flat packed and can be
assembled in just five minutes.
4
FROM WASTELAND
TO LIVING
ROOM COLLECTION
PHOTO: CÉLINE CLANET (PORTRAIT )
Studio ThusThat, a group
of four designers from the Royal
College of Art in London, has
safely turned “red mud”—an indus-
trial waste from producing
aluminum—into a collection of
ceramic cups, bowls, and
vessels that resemble terra-cotta.
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TEXT BY
MARGARET RHODES
Ali Malkawi
The researcher behind HouseZero brings us closer
to artificially intelligent, self-regulating homes.
A prewar wood-shingled house with
a roomy front porch is an unlikely
prototype for the future of energy-
efficient living. But what you can’t see
is that HouseZero, headquarters of
the Harvard Center for Green Buildings
and Cities in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
is tricked out with many, many sen-
sors. A team of graduate students
spends its days analyzing millions
of automatically collected data points
about the building’s temperature,
humidity, energy use, air pressure,
and carbon dioxide levels. The data
inform an ever-evolving algorithm,
which controls software that, in turn,
adjusts the house’s windows, vents,
and shades in constant pursuit of
the optimal temperature, air quality,
and energy efficiency.
The house is the brainchild of Ali
Malkawi, the center’s founding director.
Before coming to Harvard, Malkawi
spent several summers in Scandinavia,
where he took note of simple design
concepts that help maximize natural
ventilation and “things that can make
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buildings more sustainable and help us
move away from completely mechanic-
ally driven systems,” he says. At the cen-
ter, Malkawi saw an opportunity to bring
these ideas to fruition. He turned to
Snøhetta, an international architecture
firm with Norwegian roots, to renovate
the 1920s building to serve as “an
instrument of experimentation,” he says.
Now more than a year underway,
HouseZero combines natural climate-
control solutions with state-of-the-
art computation. The goal is to eventu-
ally find ways for us to trade our
HVAC systems for intelligent homes
that naturally self-regulate. Malkawi’s
approach incorporates data-driven
and physics-based modeling systems
in the service of a future where soft-
ware helps a house adapt to changing
conditions. He sees HouseZero as
both a research laboratory and
a prototype. It sounds like a paradox,
but building with big data, Malkawi
says, has the potential to “connect
people with the natural environment
rather than separate us from it.”
DATA
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Knowing is half the
battle. New monitoring
devices allow you to
easily adjust energy use.
LOXONE
MINISERVER GO
Loxone’s wireless home
automation hub is designed for
retrofits. It allows you
to synchronize devices that
control lighting, HVAC,
and other systems without
installing new cables.
2
HONEYWELL HOME M5
SMART THERMOSTAT
While the look of this new
thermostat from Resideo is a nod
to Honeywell’s original 1953
model, its features are fully 21st-
century, helping you monitor
heating and cooling as well as air
quality and water use.
EVE HOME
ENERGY STRIP
With its polished and matte
aluminum frame, the Eve power
strip is designed for
efficiency. You can control three
outlets with the Eve app or
Siri to sync lighting and
cut down on energy consumption.
4
DRIVIA SMART
ELECTRICAL PANEL
This new panel from LeGrand lets
you remotely turn off the
water heater as well as monitor
your home’s energy con-
sumption through an app. It can
replace a standard panel
using the same electrical board.
PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER CHURCHILL ( PORTRAIT )
5
SENSE HOME
ENERGY MONITOR
A device from Sense is installed
in your electrical panel to
relay real-time data to your phone.
It also provides energy-use
insights to help you
make adjustments over time.
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TEXT BY
LINDSAY J. WARNER
Tala Lighting
The three founders behind the British brand put
high design into high-efficiency LED bulbs.
“Harsh, ugly, blue-tinted.” Joshua Ward
doesn’t pull any punches when he
describes old-school LED lightbulbs.
“Products that no one wanted,” he
concludes, explaining what led him to
cofound Tala, the pioneering East
London lighting company, with Maxwell
Wood and William Symington. When
they launched their first LED collection
in 2015, they were looking to address a
trio of challenges: longevity, carbon
emissions, and, above all, design.
The three founders had grand plans
to create the low-carbon economy of
the future when they first started
sketching designs as students at the
University of Edinburgh in 2013. But
they knew that if they couldn’t convince
everyday people to use LEDs, the most
sustainable bulb in the world wouldn’t
spark a change in consumer behavior.
So they focused on beauty, design-
ing traditional yet appealing bulbs that
they market-tested on the most dis-
cerning customers: London’s high-end
lighting showrooms. The response
was overwhelmingly positive. From
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The LED has come
a long way. Here are our
favorite new options
for balancing efficiency
and aesthetics.
PORCELAIN III
BULB
A modern spin on the
classic Edison bulb,
Tala’s Porcelain III is notable
for its matte glass finish
as well as its energy-saving,
dimmable LED filament.
HUE FILAMENT
EDISON BULB
With its coiled filament
and elongated globe, this bulb
from Philips might have
a vintage look, but it allows the
user to control lighting
with Bluetooth
and voice commands.
PHOTO: JOONEY WOODWARD ( PORTRAIT, LEFT TO RIGHT, MAXWELL WOOD, WILLIAM SYMINGTON, AND JOSHUA WARD)
SOLANA SMART LED
FILAMENT GLOBE BULB
Bulbrite’s filament bulb
is designed to let you dim
the lights and customize
brightness and warmth through
the company’s app or
there, they expanded into more con- your smart-home device.
temporary shapes, such as the extruded
forms of “Basalt,” a forthcoming line 4
inspired by Giant’s Causeway, a geo-
logical wonder in Northern Ireland. With TRÅDFRI LED BULB
each design iteration, they’ve concen- Although reminiscent of
trated on using high-quality, long- a traditional filament lightbulb,
lasting materials—favoring glass over the Trådfri from IKEA
plastic, for example—and merging tradi- is updated with LED technology
tional materials and processes with new and can be used with
LED technologies that use 90 percent an IKEA wireless dimmer,
less energy and last 10 to 15 times lon- which is sold separately. Not
ger than incandescent bulbs. Ward calls bad for a last-minute
the approach “conservation through addition to your blue bag.
beauty”—the idea that consumers buy
into sustainability through products that
are inherently attractive, and not pri-
marily because they’re sustainable.
And yet, Ward acknowledges that Tala
produces its own carbon emissions, a
problem the company attempts to offset
through a rigorous reforestation effort
that has resulted in the planting of more
than 40,000 trees. As Ward notes, Tala
may be design-first, but “sustainabil-
ity should simply be part of any decent
manufacturer’s essential process.”
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Local Office
The duo behind Local Office Landscape and Urban Design
are creating neighborhoods to support nature.
Having grown up in Miami and the
Florida Keys, urban designer Walter
Meyer has always felt most comfortable
by the sea. Today, a sense of comfort
on a coastline is harder to come by, but
Meyer and landscape architect Jennifer
Bolstad are on a mission to change
that. Their Brooklyn firm, Local Office
Landscape and Urban Design, focuses
on projects that, as they put it, “build
cities in participation with nature.”
Take one of the most urgent issues:
the impact of rising sea levels on where
we build our homes—and water pollu-
tion that comes with unexpected flood-
ing. Sand cordgrass and golden leather
fern can buffer and absorb surging
water, while oysters can help filter it,
which is why all three are featured
in Meyer and Bolstad’s 2018 proposal
for the shoreline around the North
Bay homes in Miami’s Coconut
Grove neighborhood. At a beachfront
residential complex in Far Rockaway,
Queens, Local Office installed bio-
swales—linear channels, often vege-
tated, that treat and absorb stormwater
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runoff—to mitigate surface flooding.
For the designers, it’s critical that
communities understand their options
and get a say in what happens to
their neighborhoods. Residents whose
homes are located in vulnerable areas
threatened by rising sea levels face
the difficult decision of whether to stay
or ultimately leave. Bolstad explains
that many of their projects are designed
with this issue in mind, and they try
to implement strategies that will buy
residents more time to decide whether
and how long to stay in their homes.
Local Office’s methods come from
research, science-driven design,
and their own experiments. Currently,
the pair are using sensors to reprop-
agate the threatened hart’s tongue
fern growing on the facade of a town-
house in Manhattan. “Cities have many
microclimates,” Bolstad says. “This
plant doesn’t have to go extinct if
you design its habitat into buildings
where we’re already investing lots
of money. Who’s to say urban facades
couldn’t support butterflies or bees?”
WATER
+
GARDENING
New-to-market tech to make
the most of the water
your home uses and to keep
your garden growing.
SOURCE
REXI HYDROPANEL
Zero Mass Water has unveiled
“hydropanels” for the roof or
ground that use sunlight and air to
generate up to 1.3 gallons of
drinking water a day, depending on
humidity and other conditions.
PHYN SMART WATER
ASSISTANT
Installed under a sink, Phyn’s
smart water assistant
measures tiny changes to the
pressure in your pipes
240 times per second to monitor
water use and detect leaks.
B-HYVE XR
B-Hyve’s app-enabled sprinkler
controller factors in ground
slope, soil, sun exposure, and
other variables to calibrate when
and how much to water. It
even checks local weather reports
and adjusts use accordingly.
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U BY MOEN
SMART FAUCET
The U faucet lets you turn it on
and off and manage temperature
with a voice assistant. Need
exactly one cup of water? Just ask.
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SEPURA COMPOSTING
DISPOSAL
Designed to be installed under the
kitchen sink, Sepura’s system
streamlines the composting pro-
cess by separating food scraps and
liquids and then depositing
PHOTO: BRIAN W. FERRY ( PORTRAIT)
the solids into an odorless bin.
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HYDRALOOP
Connected to your home’s existing
water system, the Hydraloop
processes wastewater so that it is
clean, safe, and reusable
for washing the dishes or doing
a load of laundry.
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WHAT COMES NEXT?
Designer Yves Béhar has created some
of the most attractive smart-home devices
on the market. He explains why it’s
time for them to start working together.
“I think we need to move on from the
notion that the smart home
is made of many gadgets to a mentality
of smart devices being part of
the infrastructure of your house.”
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What do you see as the
most urgent need to address
right now when it comes
to smart homes?
I think we need to move on
from the notion that the
smart home is made of many
gadgets to a mentality of smart
devices being part of the
infrastructure of your house.
I’m very passionate about
creating technologies that are
non-interruptive and non-
distractive, that we can take
for granted and that don’t
need our expertise or constant
monitoring in order to function.
What should designers
consider as they develop
these technologies?
I see the role of the designer
in three ways. First is to
design the experiences with
the mindset that the users are
not early adopters, are not
tech types—they’re simply
homeowners of all ages and
different technical abilities.
Second is to make products
that don’t feel like technology.
I see these devices less as
consumer products and more
as infrastructure, so durability
is key, as well as beauty and
integration within the house.
Third is the ability to easily
connect different functional-
ities to one another in a way
that makes your smart-home
solutions feel like an ecosys-
tem rather than a bunch of
disparate devices that need to
be managed.
Taking all this into consider-
ation, are there any technolo-
gies, devices, or innovations
that have really impressed you
in recent years?
One technology that has an
enormous impact on the
capacity to integrate systems
and lower the carbon footprint
at the initial construction
stage of a home and all the way
through the life span of the
product is prefab. It’s much
easier to deliver a cohesive,
coordinated system in the
home when the installation of
those systems and their
interdependencies are built in
rather than installed ad hoc.
Where do you think the eco-
logical impact of the home
should be in the next 20 years?
This is the decade when we
will commit to bringing
technology and the needs of
the planet together. We’ve
been distracted by technology
being a fun add-on to our
lives, but when it comes to
human survival, when it comes
to climate change—and the
real stakes that are now
obvious to all of us—I think in
this decade we will apply
ourselves, we will apply our
technology, and we will apply
our talent to an essential
transformation of the way we
live into something a lot more
sustainable.
What will the smart home
of the future look like?
I see the home as a sci-fi-
like, fully integrated system
that welcomes you, caters
to your individual needs, and
provides comfort, sustain-
PHOTO: CARLOS CHAVARRIA (PORTRAIT )
ability, and efficiency in one
go. The technologies are
mature. It’s now about how
to design them into our
everyday lives, design them
for affordability, long-term
use, and ease of use. The
improvements are all in front
of us today, and the impact
they can make is gigantic.
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Home Grown
A new generation of pantry gardens takes
local produce to the next level, but
do they have a future in every kitchen?
Should your kitchen be a farm? With
food transportation and waste accounting
for as much as 30 percent of a home’s
carbon footprint, that plastic clamshell of
spinach transported by truck is a prime
target for carbon cutting. Buying only
locally grown veggies and diligently recy-
cling containers helps, but if you grow
greens yourself, there’s no transportation,
no packaging, and much less food waste.
But what if you don’t have outdoor space?
Or you’re horticulturally challenged?
There may be a solution—a living pantry.
Taking the carbon-conscious concept of
farm-to-table a step further, a living pantry
is a supercharged indoor garden that
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practically tends itself. A new crop of these
appliances promises to make it easy to
grow fresh greens, organic herbs, and
even things like beets, celery, and tomatoes
inside your home. They aim to take the
guesswork out of gardening by providing
the perfect temperature, lighting, nutri-
ents, and water to your seedlings, caring
for them 24/7 while you sit back and relax,
monitoring progress through an app.
The software sends alerts when it’s time
to plant and time to harvest to ensure
a consistent supply. Even the most enthu-
siastic production estimates indicate
a family of four will net only a couple of
salads a week. But it’s a start.
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 P R O M OT I O N
Keeping
Alex and Nicole Bender dreamed of living
near the sea in Marblehead, Massachusetts,
so when a 1970s home came up for sale,
they decided to buy it despite its outdated
the Sea style. During an extensive renovation,
the Benders transformed the waterfront
property into a bright and airy dwelling
in Sight for their family of five.
“When we began the remodel, we homed in
on the materials that were going to make the
biggest impact,” says Nicole, who prioritized
A couple searches the flooring, along with new windows and
for high-quality doors. “We ended up choosing beautiful
European white oak, wide-plank hardwood
windows and doors floors. Yet, when it came to the windows and
doors, it was a little bit harder,” she adds.
to frame dramatic As the couple compared different
water views. manufacturers, they sought options that
would provide comfort during harsh
Northeast winters without compromising the
DWELL KOLBE
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Collection gave all the options
needed for ocean views,
daylight, and performance.
home’s clean aesthetic and views of the
water. “We asked ourselves which [brand]
would offer the most modern look, thermal
protection, and a high-quality finish
to make our home feel dramatic,” recalls
Nicole. “We eventually chose Kolbe Windows
& Doors, and we are so happy. Each season
is so beautiful, and having so many
windows makes it a magical place to live.”
Developed to offer clean lines and large
expanses of glass, Kolbe’s VistaLuxe®
Collection includes a wide selection of
windows and doors with low-maintenance
extruded aluminum exteriors and warm wood
interiors. This collection complements
modern floor plans—ideal for homes like the
Benders’ that revere their surroundings.
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Living pantries allow healthier eating

(vegetables lose up to 30 percent of nutri-
ents within 72 hours of harvesting), plus
they use less energy and fewer resources
than traditional farming, help curtail food
waste (you cut only what you think you’ll
eat), and dispense with plastic packaging—
a climate-change-combating trifecta.
“Countertop growing systems have been
around for about a decade. What’s different
now is that big appliance brands are play-
ing with the concept,” says Michael Wolf,
industry analyst and founder of the Smart
Kitchen Summit. At this year’s CES, a con-
sumer electronics show, Samsung unveiled
its Bespoke Plant fridge and LG wowed
with its Harvester indoor vegetable cultiva-
tor. Miele had already beat them both to
market with its December acquisition “ The green kitchen is like the hybrid car was twenty
of Agrilution, the Munich-based maker of
Plantcubes, which cost $3,300 and fit in years ago. There are people who are willing to spend a
your kitchen like a wine fridge, only they little bit extra and get out of their comfort zones to
grow lettuce, herbs, and microgreens.
Hank Adams, founder of Rise Gardens,
have what they see as a positive impact on the earth.”
a modular living pantry that starts at MICHAEL WOLF, FOUNDER, SMART KITCHEN SUMMIT
$550, sees these devices as a way to com-
plement what you buy from the farmers’
market. “Growing things out of season,
in particular, is a good-use case,” he says. look that could fit in a living room as if we’re going to transform the way
As to the cost, he argues that Rise is easily as in a kitchen, and offerings from we consume food, our entire kitchens
cheaper than regularly buying out-of- the big appliance manufacturers blend need to change.
season cut lettuce and other shipped-in right in with the all-stainless-steel GE’s ambitious HomeGrown concept,
produce from an organic grocery store. aesthetic. But they’re still small weapons also displayed at CES, offers a glimpse
Design is also key. Rise has a modern in the climate change battle. Ultimately, into that future: an entire living kitchen
featuring fruit trees, walls of greens,
and integrated solutions—such as funnel-
ing gray water from your dishwasher
to feed the veggies and compost from
your garbage disposal to fertilize the
trees—that could maximize energy and
water efficiency and reduce food waste.
“This type of living-kitchen concept
makes a lot of sense, and it will become
fashionable to have these ‘green kitchens,’”
says Wolf. “The question is, do they just
make a statement, or can they actually
provide a significant amount of food?”
Perhaps they don’t need to—they just
need to be another link in the chain.
“Indoor growing isn’t a complete substi-
tute, far from it,” argues Andrew Deitz of
Verdical, a start-up supplying living pan-
tries to restaurants, hotels, and school
cafeterias. “It’s not an either-or, it’s an
and. We’ve got eight billion people to feed.
We’ve got to use it all.”

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My Vision:
Renovate the home
to embrace the
surrounding views.
— Andy Fotsch
Will & Fotsch Architects, Inc.

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An Icon Reimagined
Introducing the Ladylux® L2 Kitchen Faucet Collection.
When GROHE launched the Ladylux faucet
nearly 40 years ago, its integrated, pull-
down sprayer was an industry first and a
revelation for many homeowners. Today, the
reimagined Ladylux L2 Collection updates
the classic design with new features
for modern kitchens—and busy lifestyles.
“The redesign process included a long
discovery period,” explains Patrick Speck,
GROHE’s VP of global design and consumer
experience. “To better understand current
trends, we immersed ourselves in different
scenarios for food preparation and tested
P R O M OT I O N
out solutions.” Design innovations for the
Ladylux L2 Collection—from the triple-spray
nozzle to the smooth-turning spout and
EasyTouch sensor control—were all born out
of this research.
“The powerful blade spray quickly cleans
dishes, while the gentle shower spray
is perfect for washing fresh produce,” says
Duarte Salvador, creative director for design.
“The touch sensor also makes it easier when
your hands are dirty or full, and the magnetic
docking system automatically retracts
the nozzle for a clean look every time.” Other
DWELL GROHE
The design of the updated LadyLux
L2 Collection from Grohe has a
tapered silhouette, powerful spray
features, and magnetic docking.
advanced features, such as water-saving
technology, further GROHE’s commitment
to sustainability.
Available in two finishes, the Ladylux L2
Collection blends both efficiency and beauty
with styles to complement every kitchen,
including a pot filler and prep-sink options.
The Ladylux’s sleek, minimalist design and
innovative engineering are once again setting
the standard for discerning homeowners.
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William Hanley Sam Kerr

Li Edelkoort
The revered trend forecaster predicts
how artificial intelligence, material science,
and climate change will transform
how and where we build our homes.

Lidewij “Li” Edelkoort doesn’t care

about data. “By the time you have data, it’s
too late,” says the Dutch trend forecaster,
who for decades has worked with brands
in the fashion industry and beyond to
predict consumer tastes. “By the time you
can measure it, the thing has happened.
It’s no longer in the future.” Rather than
rely on numbers, she says, she trusts her
own curiosity, observations, conversa-
tions, and intuition to sketch a picture of
where cultural forces are heading: “I try
to understand currents, cast them in the
right way, and connect the dots.”
Edelkoort began by simply offering her
services to companies looking for an
edge—selling them a glimpse of the future
with enough accuracy that her roster
of clients grew to include Gucci, Nike, and
Coca-Cola. Her forecasts, issued twice a
year and looking two years ahead, are
staples of fashion offices. Over time she
began looking at design more broadly—
envisioning the intertwined futures of
everything from architecture to agricul-
ture—and advocating for change. As
she began to see the effects of socially and
ecologically unsustainable practices in

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Trend forecaster Li will include work by

Edelkoort is organiz- Jordanian-Palestinian
ing an exhibition designer Abeer
called La Manufacture: Seikaly (left), who
A Labour of Love, works with bedouin
looking at new ways weaving methods to
of making objects produce structures
that blend handcraft (above) strong enough
and technology. It to form shelters.

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fashion bearing down, Edelkoort became
an outspoken campaigner for account-
ability in her own industry, culminating
in her 2015 Anti-Fashion Manifesto.
She is currently organizing an exhi-
bition titled La Manufacture: A Labour
of Love. The show, which opens in
September in Lille, France, will look at
how the changing ways that we work
will influence how we live. We spoke with
Edelkoort about the exhibition and
what the future looks like for our homes.
The exhibition you’re working on is
being called La Manufacture: A Labour
of Love. Why are you thinking about
labor right now?
Well, we are about to have a big problem.
With the onslaught of artificial intelligence,
many people are at risk of losing their
jobs. Many, many, many people. Whole
professions will disappear and be auto-
mated. To help people find a reason to live,
we’re going to have a return to a cottage
industry—basically the idea of smaller,
“ I predict that at one point you won’t see
the difference between the city and the country.
They will somehow grow into each other.”
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Also in Edelkoort’s
show: Philipp Weber
worked with lighting
brand Analog to cre-
ate pendants shaped
by dancers during
performances (above).
Daniel Harris used a
collection of salvaged
looms (left and below
left) to start London
Cloth Company, a
sustainable “micro-
mill” and the first new
textile mill of any
kind to set up shop in
the city in 100 years.
human-scale enterprises. We will adopt
completely new rhythms, take much more
time, and make much less merchandise.
How will you represent that idea
PHOTOS: COURTESY LONDON CLOTH COMPANY ( TOP AND BOTTOM LEFT ); COURTESY PHILIPP WEBER (TOP RIGHT )
in the show?
We are exploring all kinds of designers
who are proposing new ways of producing
and making as well as developing materi-
als. And what we see happening is that
people are very interested in craft—as they
have been for a long time—but they’re
also interested in extending the hand with
some mechanical, virtual, or other kind
of tool. For example, one designer is using
insects to recycle fabrics: Moths digest
a textile and leave behind a material that
you can later compost. Maybe if you make
it fine enough, you could 3D-print it?
The concept is that people will create new
materials so we stop polluting the planet.
How will a change in how we work affect
how we design our homes?
The skill of building will be very different.
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Edelkoort’s exhibi-
tion will include Dutch
designer Dirk Vander
Kooij (top right),
who uses waste mate-
rial to 3D-print vases
(bottom right) and
other objects for the
home, and Rodrigo
Almeida, whose fur-
niture (right) incor-
porates everyday
materials that reflect
the cultures of his
native Brazil. Also on
view will be Steven
Banken’s Tannic Acid
plate (below), which
gets its color from
being treated with an
acid found in oak trees.

PHOTOS: COURTESY RODRIGO ALMEIDA (TOP LEFT ) ; COURTESY STEVEN BANKEN ( BOTTOM LEFT ) ; COURTESY DIRK VANDER KOOIJ ( TOP AND BOTTOM RIGHT )
Therefore, I think the scale and form of
buildings might also change. Because
of these materials, homes may look almost
primal and primitive—like going back to
the first day of what it is to be human.
People also will prefer not to live in
cities anymore. I think there will be a lot of
housing, farms, and cottage industries in
rural areas. Natural space will become very
coveted. Architecture then will want to
blend into the landscape.
At the same time, cities will become
much greener. That’s what we see in
a lot of the better urban plans right now.
The city will become the forest and the
landscape. I predict that at one point you
won’t see the difference between the
city and the country. They will somehow
grow into each other.

Will this mean a simpler, more

austere way of living?
Well, some people will need to go to auster-
ity first. It’s like a cleansing agent. But I’ve
been alive for a long time, and I’ve seen
other periods of minimalism come and go.
I know that we will not give up on beauty.

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Pretty in Pastels
Peeling back the layers in
a pied-à-terre in Spain reveals
the inspiration for its palette.

Designer Sergio Bonaque reversed

years of neglect to transform Lucía
Flors and Carlos Leiva’s gloomy
Valencia flat into a light-filled apart-
ment. The master bedroom features
a pencil-and-acrylic work by
Geoff McFetridge and a Vibia sconce.

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Bonaque and contractor Manuel
Stoica removed low ceilings and
partitions to reveal old beams and
brick walls. A Frame TV by Samsung
(right) displays a digital image of a
McFetridge painting. Marble punc-
tuates the refurbished bathroom
(below). A Muuto light illuminates
the newly opened kitchen (opposite,
left). In the dining area, CH23 chairs
by Carl Hansen & Søn join a table
with a Pedrali base (opposite, right).
You could say Lucía Flors and Carlos
Leiva are predisposed to look beyond
the obvious. The Spanish radiologists were
planning to move to the U.S. to complete
their clinical training when they began
searching for an affordable flat in their
native city of Valencia for visits back
home. What they found was a 650-square-
foot, sixth-floor walk-up in the bustling
Eixample district.
The location and price were right, but
it required serious vision to see past the
warren of dilapidated rooms and imagine
something habitable. “The ceilings were
low, and there were walls everywhere,” Lucía
remembers. “It was a mess.” But she and
Carlos knew just whom to call to help
them transform the space: Lucía’s brother-
in-law, interior designer Sergio Bonaque.
Communicating via FaceTime and
email, Lucía and Carlos watched from afar
as Bonaque removed crumbling drywall
and plaster to expose high ceilings, origi-
nal beams, and perimeter walls made
of handmade clay brick. Along the way,
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he and contractor Manuel Stoica installed
new plumbing, insulation, and electrical
wiring; replaced windows; opened up the
tiny kitchen; and removed partition walls
to create an airy two-bedroom apartment.
Traces of old paint uncovered during
the renovation inspired the apartment’s
new pastel palette of fresh mint and
dusty pink, set off by white and gray
walls, herringbone oak floors, and custom
lighting that brightens the once-gloomy
interior. Keeping the furnishings to a
minimum, Bonaque designed a long, built-
in bench for the living/dining room, which
also features modern wood and rattan
pieces. Lucía and Carlos have since added
personal touches, like drawings by artists
Geoff McFetridge and Borja Bonaque.
Currently based in Los Angeles, the
couple relish trips to the sunny Spanish
apartment, now with their toddler,
Carla, in tow. “Having the apartment is
awesome because we’re in the center
of Valencia, and we can walk everywhere,”
says Carlos. “It’s a fun, special place.”
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“We uncovered walls and pillars made of

handmade clay brick and traces of green and pink
that we would later use in our color scheme.”
SERGIO BONAQUE, DESIGNER

Conde Altea House N

DESIGNER Sergio Bonaque Estudio

LOCATION Valencia, Spain

A Entrance
B Terrace
C Bedroom
D Laundry
G
E Bathroom
F Master Bedroom
G Kitchen
H Living Area
I Dining Area F
H

E I

D
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In a leafy Boston suburb, a place to
park cars and repair vintage scooters
grows into a bucolic sanctuary.

A three-story mahogany screen

partially veils the backyard retreat
designed by Flavin Architects
for Ed and Kathy Kelly in Wellesley,
Massachusetts. Incorporating a
renovated garage, it includes both
closed and open spaces and
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To call architect Colin Flavin’s three-
story steel-frame structure with mahogany
slat screens a “garage” would be mislead-
ing. While there’s room for parking and a
Vespa workshop behind the double-wide
red door on the ground floor, the spaces
above feel and function more like a country
retreat. “The clients wanted something
innovative to complement their traditional
Dutch Colonial,” says Flavin, principal of
Flavin Architects. “A bit like a garden folly.”
The new building in Kathy and Ed Kelly’s
backyard in Wellesley, Massachusetts,
conceived to replace a ramshackle garage,
also offers a sheltered outdoor gather-
ing place, an indoor study, and a rooftop
garden, all with contemplative connec-
tions to the landscape. A boulder in front,
52
tipped up just so, lends the aura of a Zen
garden. Sunlight streams through the
screens, leaving rhythmic patterns on the
stucco walls of the covered porch. Floor-
to-ceiling windows in the air-conditioned
study frame the wooded view and allow
the couple to see through to the side yard
beyond. On top, flowers and vegetables
thrive in wood and aluminum planters.
Flavin found inspiration for the roof
deck in the roof terrace of Villa Savoye,
Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret’s 1931
masterpiece. Rather than leave the third
level completely exposed, Flavin continued
the steel frame upward to reinforce the
idea of an outdoor room. “It’s as though
you left out the windows and could add
glass later,” he says. “But hopefully not.”
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The modern structure is in
striking contrast to the area’s
predominantly traditional
homes, including the Kellys’
own Dutch Colonial. A Cor-
Ten steel planter running
along one side is filled with
Carex Ice Dance (opposite,
top). “The plantings are
minimalist, yet rich in color
and texture,” says landscape
architect H. Keith Wagner.
The covered porch (opposite,
bottom), furnished with
a table and chairs from
Crate & Barrel and a rug by
Calvin Klein, is the perfect
place for drinks with friends.
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 “We’ve gotten great feedback about the structure
from the community. We stepped it down
and set it back, so it became more interesting
than aggressive.” COLIN FLAVIN, ARCHITECT

Lantern Studio N

DESIGNER Flavin Architects

LOCATION Wellesley, Massachusetts

A Carport D Study
B Garage/Workshop E Covered Porch
C Entrance F Roof Garden/Dining Area

D
Ground Level

Second Level

B F
Upper Level

E
C

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Ed’s study (left) is the Lantern Studio. The

only enclosed room screen stops short of
on the upper levels. In the frame’s end (bot-
the evening, the slats tom). “We wanted to
reveal a glow from peel it back, so you
within (below), giving could see the steel
the project its name, beneath,” says Flavin.

Landscape architect H. Keith Wagner

nestled the building into the site, which
required substantial regrading, and helped
devise the circulation scheme. Granite
stairs run behind the front boulder, going
from the driveway to a wide granite terrace
at the back of the house. Low wood steps
tucked behind a Cor-Ten steel planter lead
to the new building’s second level, and
a third, industrial-style staircase at the

PHOTOS: PETER VANDERWARKER (TOP AND RIGHT ); NAT REA ( BOTTOM )

back ascends to the roof deck. “It’s utilitar-
ian, like a fire stair, but also playful, like
a climbing structure,” Flavin says. “There’s
a ‘Look, Ma, no hands’ thing happening.”
One of Kathy’s favorite features is that
the screen’s transparency changes depend-
ing on your angle of approach. Flavin
admits he can’t take credit for the effect.
“That’s just what happens with slats,” he
says. “It’s fun and serendipitous.”
The architect also notes that the screens
don’t stretch across the entire front or back
of the building. Instead, he “peeled” them
back to reveal the structure’s bones. “People
say it looks like it may not be finished, and
they wonder how we might continue with
what we’ve done,” he says. “To bring forth
that element of imagination is wonderful.”

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Behind a subdued exterior,
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expresses its wild side.

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moment in the house
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and Zoë Prillinger
designed for a couple
moving from Marin
County to Telegraph
Hill. The color is a cus-
tom blend by Benjamin
Moore that the archi-
tects named Lorna
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In the study at the The relatively discreet

top of the stairwell exterior (right), clad
(below), a Nendo in cedar slats, belies
v132 lamp by Oki the risks taken within.
Sato for Wästberg “We wanted to do
joins a Togo chair by a facade that didn’t
Michel Ducaroy for give too much away,”
Ligne Roset. The says Ogrydziak. The
skylights throughout street-facing windows
are by Royalite. are by Blomberg.

“When the house was almost done, we sat

with a pizza until ten at night, just watching
the color change, and we ended up loving
how dynamic it is.” DOUG SMITH, RESIDENT

For a city so aligned with new technology,
avant-garde art, and progressive politics,
San Francisco can be downright reactionary
when it comes to architecture. Tales abound
of houses stalled or denied for failing to
conform to a nostalgic style. In short: If you
want it built, there will be bay windows.
“Architecture here is like a crime in some
ways,” says Zoë Prillinger, who, with her
partner, Luke Ogrydziak, founded OPA, a
San Francisco–based firm with a penchant
for experimentation. When they were
approached by a couple to design a modern
house on Telegraph Hill, with its pictur-
esque Victorians and powerful neighbor-
hood association, they knew they would
have to practice what they call “stealth”
architecture: concealing an iconoclastic
interior behind a conciliatory facade.
Doug Smith, an entrepreneur, and his
wife, Lorna, an artist and teacher, felt an
immediate affinity for OPA’s work after
seeing a few of the firm’s houses. East Coast
natives who had raised their family in a
renovated Craftsman bungalow in Marin
County, the empty-nesters were ready
to change it up. The property, which they
had purchased in 2008, came with existing
permits for a spec project that had lan-
guished. As long as they stayed within the
envelope, there was a fair amount of leeway
for what could occur behind closed doors.
Had the house been built right away,
they likely would have done a somewhat
predictable, loft-like design—all white
walls, black metal, and strict rectilinear
geometries. But the 2008 recession put
the project on pause, and when it restarted
in 2012, “we were all feeling a whole lot
more adventurous,” says Prillinger.
Doug and Lorna wanted the home to
express California’s natural beauty and
less formal vibe. This, in turn, stoked the
architects’ interest in a more extreme—
even eccentric—approach: irregular
angles, unapologetic color, off-kilter
moments, and raw materials used
in a deliberately ad hoc fashion as they
placed three snug bedrooms, an art
studio, a study, and public space across
2,900 square feet on four floors.
Even with its requisite bay windows,
the cedar facade signals that something
is afoot, with a triangular cutout that
reads like a tear in the cladding and
offers passersby a glimpse of the blue that
defines one side of the house, covering
the four-story metal staircase, the entire
stairwell, and a small study. The color, a
customized Benjamin Moore cocktail,

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was inspired by the work of artists such

as Franz West, whose embrace of pastels
proved prophetic. “Pastels were like,
so radical, so wrong, when we selected the
color back in 2012,” says Prillinger. “So
of course, that made us all really happy!”
By contrast, the main living areas are
defined by raw or mostly unfinished
materials used in collage-like fashion. And
the couple’s openness extended to other
unorthodox decisions. For example, the
floor of the guestroom rises 20 degrees
from the foot to the head of the nestled-in
bed, a response to the sloping ceiling
of the subterranean garage below. Built like
an elaborate piece of casework, the room
has a vertical cabinet that separates it
from a sitting area that converts into a third
bedroom. The back of the house opens to
the garden and assorted decks, and
a staircase spirals up to a rooftop with
panoramic views of San Francisco.
In the end, everyone found a way of
making peace with the street while being
true to themselves. The architects cite
both Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents The living room (above) light from LED strips.
and the writings of Adolf Loos, who likened includes a Jensen At the rear of the
chair by Rodolfo house (left), sculptural
a building’s exterior to a good suit that
Dordoni for Minotti terraces are softened
confers anonymity. “Being in society and a Bohemian chair, by plantings designed
can mean toning down aspects of your- a Lowland sofa, and by Delphine Huetz.
self,” says Prillinger. “But inside, you Fjord footstools The sliding glass doors
can be as sensual, exotic, and complex by Patricia Urquiola for are by Fleetwood
Moroso. The ceiling and the Carbon counter
as you like. Although this is a very well- is unfinished plywood stools on the roof
behaved building, that doesn’t mean it covered by a metal deck are by Bertjan
hasn’t got a wildly expressive internal life.” screen that diffuses Pot for Moooi.

Hidden House N

ARCHITECT LOCATION
OPA San Francisco, California

A Entrance D Elevator G Office J Bedroom M Pantry

B Garage E Utility Room H Bathroom K Terrace N Dining Area
F C Art Studio F Garden I Powder Room L Kitchen O Living Area
C P Master Suite
Q Study
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The house that archi- facade—carries up

tect Clinton Cole to an aquaponics
designed for his fam- pond on the second
ily contains its own floor, where a school
partial ecosystem. An of edible silver perch
underground cistern swim. Nutrient-rich
collects rainwater, water from the pond
which a pump sys- is then used to irrigate
tem—powered by a rooftop fruit and
solar panels on the vegetable garden.

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Doors made from in the living room
FSC-certified wood (right). The sofa is
and custom pivoting vintage and the Innate
windows appear coffee table is by Jon
throughout the house, Goulder. The paint-
including in the ing is by Australian
garage (below) and artist Simon DeGroot.
Ask Clinton Cole what drives his archi-
tecture practice, and you get a manifesto:
“We need an architecture that generates
and stores power, an architecture that
harvests and recycles water, an architec-
ture that reuses waste,” says the founder
of CplusC, a design-build firm based
in Sydney. “We need an architecture that
produces fruits, vegetables, fish, and eggs.
We need an architecture where nature
and beauty exist symbiotically.”
Clinton’s passion seems more urgent
than ever against the backdrop of one of
the worst brushfire seasons on record
in Australia. Fittingly, he has designed a
new home for himself, his partner, and
their three children to be an eye-catching
emblem for the cause. The three-level,
1,722-square-foot residence fills a wedge-
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shaped lot in an inner suburb of Sydney.
With greenery spilling out of its facade
and a working garden sprouting from the
roof, it is a self-consciously verdant pres-
ence on an otherwise typical street.
One side of the house combines an
existing masonry exterior—protected by
local preservation regulations—with a
PHOTO: MICHAEL LASSMAN (GARAGE DOOR)
new glass-enclosed steel structure set
slightly behind it. Planter beds “float”
between the two layers and serve as lateral
bracing for the masonry wall. “This
interstitial zone provides passive thermal
regulation across the upper floors,”
says Clinton. “The planters provide views
of greenery from the inside and cool
internal spaces via transpiration [the pro-
cess in which plant leaves give off water
vapor].” Another section of the home’s
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“The house is a machine

for sustaining life.”
CLINTON COLE, ARCHITECT AND RESIDENT

A spiral staircase runs (opposite) opens to

through the center of the aquaponics pond.
the house, serving The custom uphol-
as a chimney that pulls stery is from South
cool air up from the Pacific Fabrics and
ground floor as hot air the blue pillow is from
exits through windows MissoniHome. On
on the top level. The the floor is a Moroccan
children’s bedroom Boucherouite rug.

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facade is covered by photovoltaic panels
that feed a battery storage system
and tout the house’s use of clean energy.
The roof is constructed of rows of
28-foot planter beds that function struc-
turally as beams and contain soil deep
enough to grow fruits and vegetables. The
garden is fed by water pumped from an
aquaponics fishpond on the second-floor
deck. In turn, the native Australian plants
and desert grasses planted around the
perimeter of the garden filter storm water
that drains into the pond below as well
as into an underground rainwater harvest-
ing system. The garden acts as a “green
top hat,” says Clinton. “I want it to express
the benefits of urban rooftop landscaping
and gardens to the public.”
The front door—a steel “shroud” set
into the concrete facade—leads into
a ground floor that contains a living area
and home office. A second entrance in

Welcome to the Jungle House N

ARCHITECT LOCATION
CplusC Sydney, Australia

A Entrance F Master
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B Bathroom Bedroom
A C Garage/ G Laundry
Workshop H Bedroom
H
B G D D Living Area I Terrace
E E Home Office J Kitchen
K Dining Area
C D F I
H J K
B

First Floor Second Floor Third Floor

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“The house acts as a beacon of sustainability
within its community. We want it
to present a future model for city living.”
CLINTON COLE
the laneway to the rear of the house leads
to a workshop and a garage for an electric
car powered by the solar-fed battery system.
Bedrooms, a bathroom, and a laundry
occupy the second floor. The kids sleep
in bunk beds in one room, where low
seating conceals storage space and win-
dows open onto the bubbling aquaponics
pond. “We made a deliberate attempt
to connect the children directly with their
food sources,” says Clinton, referring
to both the fish in the pond and the fruits
and vegetables on the roof.
The master bedroom is tucked into
the narrowest point in the triangular floor
plan, and by puzzling the private spaces
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into the lower levels, Clinton was able to
create an open-plan top floor. There, a
kitchen and dining area bleed into indoor
and outdoor living spaces that have unob-
structed views of the city skyline.
Throughout the home, the finishes
feature a combination of raw and indus-
trial textures, such as recycled timber
flooring and stair treads and a variety of
polished and unpolished metals.
The house is a lush, living presence on
the Sydney streetscape with its own
self-sustaining metabolism. For Clinton,
it embodies how we should live now
and shows the world how architecture can
adapt in the era of climate change.
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The house incorporates natural light into a

an existing masonry bathroom (opposite,
facade (opposite, top), bottom). The garden’s
with planters situated steel planter beds serve
between it and the as the roof structure
new structure creating over the third floor (this
a buffer of greenery. page), which has views
Frosted glass lets of the Sydney skyline.

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Three generations can gather

around the picnic table in the din-
ing area of the home Hilary Sample
and Michael Meredith built near
Saratoga Springs, New York.
The architect couple designed the
custom furnishings, as well as
the brightly colored sheet-metal
partitions and finishes (opposite).

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Vivid Living
A couple, their kids, and two sets of grandparents
share a boldly imagined house in upstate New York.
TEXT BY PHOTOS BY | @M VA HR EN WA LD
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The exterior walls are made and Michael designed the

almost entirely of seven-foot-
square sliders. From the bedrooms
to the common areas, each
room flows into the next without
a traditional hierarchy. Hilary
furniture and cabinetry using
SolidWorks software. They
outsourced the fabrication and
then installed the built-
in components themselves.

You could easily miss the house.
Glimpsed from a narrow roadway outside
Saratoga Springs, Michael Meredith
and Hilary Sample’s multigenerational
family retreat seems not unlike the
many barns that dot upstate New York.
And sometimes, when weather conditions
are just so, its metal cladding nearly
disappears into the sky. But careful
observers will be rewarded for taking
a closer look. Underneath its agricultural
complexion, the building represents an
intellectually ambitious—and heartfelt—
attempt at connecting people to the
landscape and to one another.
Michael and Hilary knew they would
design their own rural residence ever since
they cofounded architecture studio MOS
in 2008. Michael explains that the couple
felt a career obligation to experience
their design skills firsthand, “to know
what we’re offering to clients.” They also
wanted an escape from the urban environ-
ments where their uniquely cerebral
work has the most supporters. (Inquisitive
and convention-busting methods earned
MOS a Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design
Museum National Design Award in 2015.)
They had purchased 40 acres of woods
and meadow near Michael’s parents’
home in a suburb of Saratoga Springs
in 2010. A few years later, teaching jobs—
Michael at Princeton and Hilary at
Columbia—brought them to Manhattan.
Shortly after moving there, the couple
learned they were expecting twins.
“Coming to New York galvanized us to
do something with the property, so
the family could be in nature and we

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House No. 10 N

ARCHITECT LOCATION
MOS Washington County, New York

A Entrance
B Bathroom
C Laundry/Storage E
D Playroom E
E Bedroom
F Kitchen B
B
G Dining Area
H Walk-in Closet
I Garden
J Fire Pit

B E
J
I

G
D
C B H F
A

could have a place to reset,” Hilary says.

The architects designed a 2,500-square-
foot home spread out on a single level
that would accommodate the couple, the
twins, and two sets of grandparents. The
ILLUSTRATION: LOHNES + WRIGHT

idea of a garden courtyard was a constant

over myriad schemes—it meant having
easily reachable vegetables, herbs, and
perennials for teaching the twins about
how things grow. “We didn’t want our kids
to just buy everything, but to understand
where things come from,” says Hilary.
In addition to creating an optimal

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“Vernacular buildings have a lot of embedded
intelligence. They take into consideration
problems of construction, economy, and material
availability.” MICHAEL MEREDITH, ARCHITECT AND RESIDENT

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The home spreads out from a

courtyard garden in a shape that
resembles a hand traced on
a sheet of paper. The structure of
each “finger” nods to the traditional
gable-sided barns that dot the
area. The exterior is clad in
Galvalume siding, a workaday,
weather-resistant material that
gives the facade a shimmer
that varies depending on the light.

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all-ages destination, Hilary and Michael

embraced the project as a laboratory for
exploring design concepts. In particular,
they wanted to foster a more intimate
relationship with the landscape than one
might feel in an archetypal, hillside-
commanding glass box. And attempting
to further blur lines, they wondered:
Could the interiors flow into one another
so freely that no space seems like
the territory of a specific occupant?
Michael and Hilary half-jokingly say that
“splat” went the answer. The duo divided
the house into five approximately 15-by-
30-foot modules radiating from the
courtyard. Viewed from above, the house
resembles a splatter pattern, or perhaps
a child’s traced hand where the thumb and
pinky are spread wide and the courtyard
is toward the bottom center of the palm.
Abundant glass guarantees immersion
in the landscape. Each metal-wrapped
module is perforated by windows and
sliding doors that measure an impressive
seven feet square. Circling the house,
you can use any slider to enter the build-
ing, though a poured concrete step subtly
signals the front door.
Inside, the sense of openness deepens.
Partitions take the place of interior walls,

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and the three bedrooms are outfitted
equally—there is no discernible master
suite. Of the remaining two modules, only
two rows of mint-colored metal cabinetry
differentiate the kitchen from the play-
room. The absence of traditional privacy
devices, not to mention a domestic pecking
order, can make you forget which room is
which and who sleeps where, to which
Hilary responds, “This project was meant
to force a reevaluation of how we live.”
It is too soon to say whether the house
will compel Americans to dream about
homeownership that is as nonhierarchical
and immersed in nature as this heady
reinterpretation of a farming compound.
But the home, which started in 2016
and took three years to complete, is already
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“In architecture, we tend toward natural materials
and raw metals. In furniture, we like color.”
MICHAEL MEREDITH
paying dividends. It inspired Hilary and
Michael to write and illustrate the recently
released Houses for Sale—ostensibly a
children’s book but really a critical history
of modern architecture—and this fall,
Brussels gallery Maniera will be offering
the couple’s furniture for sale.
Within the family, the house was an
instant boon. The twins, now 7, help Mom
with gardening and clearing paths in
the woods, and they identify animal species
they see on hikes with Dad using field
guides stowed back at the house. Michael’s
parents constantly remark on the calming
effect of the building, and Hilary’s mom
gets her steps in just walking from module
to module. “It’s a totally different way
of being in the world,” Michael says.
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Hilary and Michael’s firm, MOS,
served as general contractor on
the project, collaborating with engi-
neering firm Silman to maximize
construction speed and economy.
They used only wood framing and
a newly devised Douglas fir ply-
wood ceiling wedge that provides
lateral strength (opposite, top).
Their house, which sits at the edge
of a meadow (above), marks the
first time the award-winning de-
signers have integrated ground-
up architecture and interior fittings
so closely (opposite, bottom).
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FINE

LIN ES

ADESIGNER COUPLE BUILD

A CONTEMPORARY CABIN IN NORWAY INSPIRED
BY RURAL FENCES.

TEXT BY PHOTOS BY | @BRUCEDA MON TE

TIFFANY ORVET BRUCE DAMONTE

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Designers Casper and Lexie
Mork-Ulnes created a rustic
retreat for their family on a
mountaintop 45 minutes from
Lillehammer. Borrowing from the
local vernacular, they clad the
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structure in skigard, a split-rail
construction traditionally used for
farm fences. The house is raised
on columns to improve sight lines,
keep snow drifts at bay, and lessen
the building’s impact on the land.
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The road leads uphill and keeps
climbing, past ski slopes in the rugged
heart of Norway made famous by the
1994 Winter Olympics. A light snow
has been falling steadily throughout the
dim morning, dampening all sound
when the car slows to a stop. As the pine
trees begin to thin near the top of the
mountain, a home emerges in the haze:
a striking facade of rough-cut logs set
in a diagonal pattern, like a pencil sketch
crosshatched in contrasting shades
of gray. Through a massive window, its
golden interior glows warmly, beckoning
travelers in from the cold.
The cabin was built by Casper and
Lexie Mork-Ulnes, the duo behind
Oslo- and San Francisco–based Mork
Ulnes Architects. It sits about three
hours north of their home in central Oslo,
serving as a year-round retreat for
the couple, their two children—Lucia,
13, and Finn, 11—and their dog, Lupo.
“We love to ski, and with the kids at the
age they are, we wanted to make the most
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of this time we have together,” says Lexie.
A native of San Francisco, she met her
Norwegian husband and partner while
skiing in Tahoe. “Plus,” adds Casper,
comfortable finishing Lexie’s thought
after their 20 years together, “we’d been
building cabins for everyone else.
We wondered, why aren’t we doing this
for ourselves?”
For their own cabin, the couple wanted
a minimalist space that made the out-
doors the focus while paying homage
to the local farm buildings and log cabins
that were fixtures of the landscape
when Casper was growing up. And since
they were the clients, they had free rein
to experiment with materials and design.
The result is a 1,500-square-foot light-
weight box that hovers roughly five feet
above the ground on 45 wooden posts.
Punched through its rough cladding are
floor-to-ceiling walls of glass and an
entry portal, a cubic cutout that allows
views straight through the structure.
The roof is covered in sod and grass in
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The interior of the house is lined
in pine. In the living area, a Mags
Soft 3-Seater sofa by Hay sits
on a rug by Milo. The stove is by
Hwam. Anchoring the dining area
(opposite, top) are an antique
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Norwegian farm table and chairs.
The appliances are by Gaggenau.
A child’s bedroom (opposite,
below) has built-ins designed by
Casper and Lexie and fabricated
by Strønes Snekkerversksted.
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The diagonals of the skigard are
made of hand-split spruce, while the
uprights are juniper. Wide stairs
lead to an open veranda that divides
the family wing from the guest
quarters. In another nod to rural
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Scandinavian style, the roof is
covered in sod. “When the grass
waves in the wind, it softens the
rectilinear nature of the house,”
says Casper. The couple used
local woodworkers for the build.
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Skigard Hytte N

ARCHITECT LOCATION
Mork Ulnes Architects Kvitfjell, Norway

A Entrance F Bedroom
B Guest Lounge G Kitchen
C Guest Bed Niche H Living/Dining Area
D Bathroom I Sauna
E Mudroom J Master Bedroom
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“ The property includes a natural grazing path for

farm animals. Sheep stand under the house in
summer to protect themselves from the weather.”
LEXIE MORK-ULNES, DESIGNER AND RESIDENT

Twenty-foot sliders flank the

living/dining area, providing spec-
tacular views in both directions
(opposite). The painting is by Randi
Mork-Ulnes, Casper’s mother. The
sauna (above) is clad in aspen—
an exception to the ubiquitous pine.
The master bedroom (right) fea-
tures an antique Norwegian bed
rebuilt by Strønes Snekkerversksted.

traditional rural Scandinavian style.
On one side of the portal is the main
cabin, housing a mudroom, two rooms for
the kids, a bathroom, a kitchen, a living
room, and a master suite complete with
sauna. As you move down the hall, every
open door affords an unhindered view to
the outside. On the other side of the portal
is a self-contained guest suite.
Smooth, light-colored pine covers every
interior surface, simultaneously over-
whelming and calming the senses from the
first breath of its robust wood scent. Even
the shower walls and the button plates for
the toilet are cut in pine. The designers’
overarching idea was that nothing should
distract from the views and the feeling of
being outside. In the open kitchen and
living room, for instance, two 20-foot-wide,
floor-to-ceiling windows face each other.
One provides a lookout from 3,000 feet
above sea level that takes in the valley
below, with its river and farmhouses, and
the mountains beyond. The other window
reveals the woods and meadow just
outside the door.
By raising the house up off the ground,
Casper and Lexie were able to get the sight
lines they wanted and preserve the natural
landscape underneath. Sheep gather
under the house in summer. In winter, the
raised aspect prevents snowdrifts from
blocking the entrance. But the characteris-
tic that stands out the most is the skigard-
style wooden screen wrapping the house.
A type of rail fencing common in rural
Norway, skigard is made from 10-foot-long
logs that are quarter-cut into a ski-like
shape, then connected, often by rope, to
wood poles and set at an angle to the
ground. As far as Lexie and Casper know, it
has never been used on a house before.
“We liked the idea of this meticulous
craft,” says Casper. “It’s rough but it’s tidy.
The craftspeople who did the skigard
cladding were the same ones who did the
inside. So after doing this jewel box of
an interior, for the siding all they used was
a chainsaw and a drill.”
Ultimately, the couple approached this
design and build as they would any other.
“We always try to home in on a straight-
forward vision and resolve it in the most
rigorous way we can,” says Casper. With
its clean interior and quirky skin, Skigard
Hytte, as they call the house, embodies
both Nordic pragmatism and Californian
inventiveness. It’s a fitting creation
for a family and architectural studio that
is firmly planted in both places.

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In Sunnyvale, California, architect
Ryan Leidner cracked open a 1962
Eichler with a crisp remodel flush
with foliage. He replaced the home’s
vertical plywood facade with one-
inch strips of American red cedar
set at two depths. The rhythmic
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slats conceal a garage door that
swings open on a hidden hinge. At
the entryway, two massive panes
of frosted glass shimmer with light
and shadow from the atrium inside.
Homeowners Isabelle Olsson and
Matthaeus Krenn stand out front.
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TEXT BY PHOTOS BY | @JOEFLETCHERPHOTO

Mike Chino Joe Fletcher

Unplug and Play

A power couple in the tech world create the home of
their dreams—with barely a gadget in sight.

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Isabelle Olsson leads industrial design

for Google Nest, and the home products
she has created are sprinkled around
her Silicon Valley house. But you would
have to look hard to find them. “The whole
design philosophy is for them to blend
in so that you don’t even notice they’re
there,” says Isabelle. Indeed, the house—
a recently renovated 1962 Eichler she
shares with her husband, user interface
designer Matthaeus Krenn, and their
two children—emphasizes the natural
world over the digital.
Matthaeus and Isabelle both studied
industrial design and interned at IDEO
Munich before moving to San Francisco in
2009. They initially lived in a 400-square-
foot studio in the city and commuted daily
down to Silicon Valley. “Even though San
Francisco is great, it’s not like we were en-
joying it—we were stuck in traffic for the
most part,” says Matthaeus with a smile.
They always dreamed of designing their
own home, and they wanted to shorten
their commute, so they started searching
for properties in the South Bay. In early
2014, they found the perfect one: a
2,000-square-foot Eichler in Sunnyvale
designed by A. Quincy Jones. “It was
January and it was warm—and we were
coming from San Francisco, shivering,”
remembers Isabelle. “We arrived at this
place and it just smelled good. There was
a tree, and there were birds, and even
though the house was pretty worn down,
we saw the potential—the layout was
incredible.” They made an offer, and three
days later they picked up the keys.
The Eichler had been renovated in the
1980s—complete with shag carpeting,
a wall of mirrors, and French shutters—

“The atrium is the first place you

enter,” says Leidner. “Traditionally,
it’s a hardscaped area with some
potted plants, but we wanted it to be
more like a full garden, right in the
middle of the house.” A pathway
winds between a pair of Japanese
maples and a myrtle tree that dates
to the home’s original construc-
tion. The floor-to-ceiling windows
and sliders are by Fleetwood.

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In the bedroom (left), Ball Light
pendants by Michael Anastassiades
hang above Tulip side tables by Eero
Saarinen for Knoll. The linens are
by Brooklinen, and the Serif TV is
by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for
Samsung. The living room (below)
“ Part of what we love is curating a space and being
surrounded by beautiful objects—we’re both
huge fans of furniture.” MATTHAEUS KRENN, RESIDENT
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includes a Losanges rug from
Nanimarquina, a Wing sofa from
Flexform, a Tobi-Ishi coffee table
from B&B Italia, and Eames lounge
chairs. The dining area (opposite)
features a Roundish table from
Maruni and Thonet 209 chairs.
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 but the floor plan was ideal for indoor/
outdoor living, and the central atrium held
a magnificent myrtle tree dating from
the home’s construction. Matthaeus and
Isabelle lived in the house for a year
and a half, slowly stripping away layers,
mocking up lighting, and experimenting
with room layouts before deciding to bring
on an architect for an extensive remodel.
Matthaeus was browsing Instagram
when he discovered a renovated Eichler
with an exceptionally well-resolved sky-
light. He reached out to the architect,
San Francisco–based Ryan Leidner, and a
few days later Leidner visited the home
and signed on to the project. “I feel so for-
tunate when I’m working with designers,
because you can jump right in—we
already shared a language,” says Leidner.
Matthaeus, Isabelle, and Leidner pro-
ceeded to carve out a serene retreat in
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the heart of suburban Sunnyvale. They
brought on landscape architect Stephanie
Stephens to install flourishing, multi-
layered gardens in the central atrium and
all along the home’s perimeter. “It’s like
an oasis—we wanted to live somewhere
where you almost didn’t know where you
were,” says Isabelle. “It’s our own world.”
The atrium leads to an open living room
enclosed by an expanse of sliding glass
doors, the frames of which line up perfectly
with the home’s structural posts. The
couple sought a seamless connection to the
backyard, so Leidner proposed forming
a second atrium off the kitchen with a new
exterior wall that keeps the sliders out of
sight. “It’s one thing when the doors sit
and stack in the space, but when they’re
completely gone, it creates a magical,
borderless condition,” says the architect.
This sensation is strengthened
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“We drew a lot of inspiration from the house itself, but
we tried to push it a bit further. We wanted to figure
out a way to open the back elevation completely.”
RYAN LEIDNER, ARCHITECT

The living area has a PK22 chair by
Poul Kjaerholm and a Float sofa and
Zoe rug from Paola Lenti’s outdoor
collection. Pietre Del Nord porce-
lain stoneware from Emser Tile runs
from the patio through the house.
Nearly every room has a Nest Mini,
and the house also has a Nest Wi-Fi
router, a Google Home Max sound
system, and a Nest Thermostat.

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by the large gray floor tiles, which run

continuously from the edge of the rear
garden through the home’s living areas and
into the central atrium. A glass door opens
the master bedroom to the pool, which is
partially framed by an ipe deck. “I always
envisioned getting up, walking barefoot
onto a wooden deck, and jumping into the
pool for a morning swim,” says Isabelle.
The home’s four bedrooms remain in
their original locations, although the couple
opted to install a walk-in master closet
and relocate the master bath to a former
office at the northeast corner of the court-
yard. In every room, white walls frame
views into lush greenery. “The garden is
everywhere—it’s almost like the primary
material in the house,” says Leidner.
This is partially due to the home’s
transparency, which yields other benefits.
“I might be sitting in the kitchen writing
an email, and my daughter’s playing
on the living room sofa, and I can literally
look through two panes of glass to see
her,” says Matthaeus. “Ultimately, I think
that’s where it comes together, where it
really pays off.”

Twin Gable House N

ARCHITECT LOCATION
Ryan Leidner Architecture Sunnyvale, California

A Entrance G Living Area

B Atrium H Patio
C Bedroom I Deck
D Bathroom J Master Suite
E Kitchen K Mudroom/Garage
F Dining Area L Carport

H I

B J
G

E F

J
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TEXT BY PHOTOS BY | @LEONARDOFINOTTI

Lindsay J. Warner Leonardo Finotti

Only the Essentials

A mostly prefab design
paves the way to a simpler
life on a lakefront
in southern Uruguay.

Alejandro Rodríguez had been living half a mile

from a long, sinuous lake in Canelones, Uruguay,
swimming in its waters and riding his bike around
its rugged shoreline for the better part of 25 years. So
when a 100-by-164-foot plot of waterfront property
came up for sale at a time when he was looking for
a new home, he jumped at the chance to purchase
it. He already had a strong connection to the
landscape—now he just needed a house.
A former systems engineer who had given up the
corporate hustle to pursue a passion for importing
Spanish wines, Alejandro was looking for a quieter,
simpler life, one that focused more on watching ducks
fish for food than on amassing things. He wanted to
create a home inspired by a line he’d read long ago
in a book about Zen design: “Let your house look the
way you want your mind to look.” To Alejandro, that
meant a place that was “free from distractions and
designed to enjoy moments, not material objects,” he
says. “I wanted to live with less.”
Convinced that a shorter timeline would equate to
fewer problems, he also wanted an efficient construc-
tion process. He turned to MAPA, an architecture
firm based in Uruguay and Brazil with a reputation
for designing high-quality, small-footprint prefab
homes. He sketched out several pages of require-
ments—a small bedroom, two bathrooms, a kitchen
with an island, an open floor plan—and then set
MAPA loose.
The initial concept was nearly identical to the final
project. Named Lagos House, the home is a simple
rectangle with an outdoor space at each end—one
facing the cool, breezy lake and a more sheltered one
facing the road. Per Alejandro’s request, it has very
few walls, and by using primarily prefab elements,
MAPA assembled the basic structure in just three
days. The firm employed a building material it had
never used before: precast concrete slabs typically

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Alejandro Rodríguez overall industrial feel

sits in the open living is tempered by walls of
area of his house in oak cabinetry, fabricated
Canelones, Uruguay, by MOAA. In the kitchen,
designed by MAPA. a Bosch oven and
The roof is made of Electrolux fridge join
precast concrete slabs stools by Taller Capitán.
more commonly used A Belly pendant by
to build bridges. An Nordlux hangs overhead.

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Six slabs were placed in U-shaped pieces are

a row on top of prefab filled with clerestory
concrete walls (inset). windows that add to
The architects chose the natural light
the components in part (below). The lounge is
for their length, which by BoConcept and the
could span the width of table is by Estudio
the house, eliminating Diario. The outdoor
the need for columns. furniture is by Taller
The gaps formed by the Capitán (below right).

found in bridges and warehouses. By placing six

of these “double-T” slabs atop two prefab concrete
walls, MAPA created a clean, streamlined exterior
that’s as uncluttered as what’s within. Paved in
concrete and clad in particle-board-style oak, the
interior is broken only by the bedroom and bathroom
walls, which were made with light steel framing.
The intention in the design was to “define the natu-
ral elements that existed already, and not to bring Lagos House N
in opulent or artificial things,” says Andrés Gobba, a ARCHITECT MAPA
partner and director at MAPA. LOCATION Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones, Uruguay
The end result gracefully spans two landscapes:
the rock garden, fireplace, and small water feature A Entrance
in front, and the one-and-a-half-mile-long lake B Kitchen
at the back. When the weather is fine, Alejandro and C Living Area
D Patio
his frequent guests enjoy the latter. When it’s too F E Dining Area
breezy or cold, they retire to the courtyard, where G
F F Bathroom
E
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there’s far less wind and the temperature is often G Bedroom

H Courtyard
10 degrees warmer. I B
H I Carport
Inside, the furniture is sparse and unfussy. Large D
doors open wide for easy movement between inside
and out. “When people enter, they ask, ‘What will A C
you put here, in this empty space?’ and I reply, ‘Noth-
A
ing,’” Alejandro says. “I love the sight of the lake,
and the reflection of the trees on the water. I don’t
need any more than what I have right here.”

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TEXT BY PHOTOS BY | @JACKHOBHOUSE

Iain Aitch Jack Hobhouse

A team of architects uses the bones of a midcentury

eyesore to create a new home for a family of seven.

Brick by Brick
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Sandwiched between two ornate
Victorians, a London home
designed by Alma-nac (opposite)
remedies a midcentury blunder
(opposite, inset) with a con-
temporary correction. The palette
is a mix of warm neutrals and
vivid pops of color, as seen in one
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of the home’s six bedrooms
(above), which includes a dark
mustard Brisa bedspread from
MADE and a wall painted in
Ultra Blue by Little Greene. The
dining area (below) features Apple
Green DAX chairs by Charles
and Ray Eames for Herman Miller.
renovation
With its clean angles and pinkish gray
facade, Michelle Anderson and Dan
Witchell’s new home, located on a quiet
crescent in Brockley, London, demands a
double take. Markedly different from, yet
still reminiscent of, its stately neighbors,
the home is a bold addition to a historic
block. It also represents a vast improve-
ment over what once stood on the site.
The couple’s house is actually the third
to exist on the property. The original
residence, built in 1879, was destroyed
by a bomb blast during World War II
(miraculously, the homes on either
side were spared). In 1958, a functional
but charmless two-story box went up
in its place. “The house was like a bad
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“Some people struggle with the color of

the bricks. It does stand out, but in a good
way. If you’re going to do something
different, there’s no point compromising.”
MICHELLE ANDERSON, RESIDENT

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ARCHITECT Alma-nac
LOCATION London, England

A Bedroom
B Master Suite
A C C Bathroom
D Entrance
E Den
A C B
F Study
G Living Area
H Mechanical
Third Floor
Room
I Kitchen
J Dining Area
A C K Patio
C L Garden

A A

Second Floor
C
D
H I
E
K
G J L
F

First Floor

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 tooth on the street,” says Tristan Wigfall,
a director at Alma-nac, the design
firm Michelle and Dan hired when they
bought the midcentury structure in
December 2015. But rather than level
the old house, they decided to work with
it, turning the bland building into a
handsome 2,500-square-foot home. The
brickwork of the existing house provided
the inner cavity wall for the new home.
“The old house was very basic and cheap,”
Michelle says, “but it was solid. That
was the redeeming factor and obviously
informed our decision not to knock it
down, which would have cost us a lot.”
With five boys, ages 6 to 17, the couple’s
premium on durability was under-
standable. So was their desire to create
more space, going from three bedrooms
to six and incorporating five bath-
rooms. Alma-nac accomplished this by
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adding a third story, where Dan and
Michelle’s master bedroom and bath are
located, as well as two boys’ bedrooms.
The firm also appended two extensions
to the original dwelling, one of which
enabled moving the entryway to face
the street and another that serves as an
extra-wide kitchen and dining space.
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In order to comply with local conser-
vation statutes, Alma-nac looked to Dan
and Michelle’s neighbors for inspira-
tion. Their roof mimics the peaks of the
Victorians on the street, and the entire
house is covered in a Belgian brick, echo-
ing the vernacular yellowish brick facades
of their neighbors’ homes and making it
feel contextual in the historic district.
The interior design was left to Dan
Before the renovation, the kitchen
and Michelle, who have always worked in (opposite, inset) looked out onto
creative fields and are about to launch the street. Alma-nac moved it to the
their own clothing brand, Asyou. Dan rear extension (opposite, bottom).
had several vintage furniture pieces that Skylights in the addition and in one
of the new bathrooms (opposite,
perfectly integrated into the home. “All top) bring natural light into the home.
of a sudden, we had the opportunity The overgrown backyard (inset,
to design around us, instead of designing above) made way for a new patio
ourselves around the house,” says Dan. (top) for alfresco dining while
leaving plenty of space on the
“We were on a budget but were able to
lawn for the boys’ soccer games.
pepper these interesting pieces alongside
utilitarian things.”
The result is a practical yet striking
family home that belies its economy.
It also manages to please both the local
conservation group and the planning
department in an area that boasts some
of London’s best-preserved Victorian
streets. With a little bit of ingenuity, this
once-ugly outlier now turns heads.
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The products, furniture, architects, designers,

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Scoubidou is a knotting
craft for children that
originated in France.
Vases wrapped in pat-
terned weaves of vivid
plastic threads gained
Designer Bethan Laura Wood, popularity in Europe
in the 1950s. Today, there
known for her colorful is a small but enthusi-
astic online market
work—and her equally vibrant for these vintage items,
which is how Wood
personal style—shops the acquired her vase.

world for all things woven.

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Jooney Woodward

I first started collecting

vintage objects when
I was in high school, and
I’ve always had a soft
spot for psychedelic pat-
terns and Pop Art. This
scoubidou vase was made
in the 1960s, and I just
love its trashy beauty.
The pattern of the weave
really attracts me, as well
as its bright colors.
I bought it right around
the time I was designing
a collection that involved
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original pattern for the
Walter Gropius TAC Tea
Set. My design needed to
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textile works, specifically
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invented. That began a
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and craft of weaving,
specifically how it’s been
practiced and devel-
oped by women over
thousands of years.
Since then, I’ve been
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more objects that have a
woven pattern to them.
I’ve amassed textile and
woven objects from all
over the world, including
this vase from France,
Mexican embroidery,
and Japanese braided
handles for bags. It’s a big
woven world out there.

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