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“Aesthetics are important, but first and
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CONTENTS

features 78 88 94 102
In Praise of A Hidden Inherit Hunt With
Shadows Life in Trees the Wind the Hounds
ON THE COVER: ABOVE: Two designers take Tucked away on an Architect Paul Masi In Wilmington,
A dwelling by architect The interplay of dark- a decade to complete estate in Cape Town, designs a house that Delaware, a couple
D’Arcy Jones provides ness and light lends their Phoenix resi- a soaring trilevel embraces sensory create a stage for
a sharp contrast to its resonance to a modern dence, incorporating “tree house” fulfills experience as a nec- their vast collection
western Canada setting desert home (page 78).
unorthodox touches a businessman’s essary ingredient of midcentury finds.
(page 50). PHOTO BY
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departments

13 Editor’s Letter 25 Modern World 50 Outside 124 Renovation

16 Community We begin with an appreciation
of Japanese-American designer
Isamu Noguchi and his irreplace-
able “Akari” creations. Next is
a singular home in Pauma Valley
with gabion walls and an energy-
efficient worldview, and a con-
versation with Memphis cofounder
Michele De Lucchi, who shares
the poetry behind an exemplary
PHOTOS: GIORGIO MOLINARI (32), ZACK BENSON (28)
With a sweeping provincial park
next door, the bar is high for
a new home in British Columbia.
TEXT BY Zachary Sachs
PHOTOS BY Undine Pröhl
62 Renovation
Architects build up and out to
turn a lumberjack’s shed in
Quebec into an aerie-like retreat.
Subtle upgrades bring a
nondescript midcentury resi-
dence into the 21st century.
TEXT BY Laura Mauk
PHOTOS BY Raimund Koch
130 Small Spaces
A young software engineer
tackles his first residence,
a 678-square-foot loft.

career. We consider a workshop TEXT BY Lindsay J. Warner TEXT BY Deborah Bishop

166 Sourcing
Saw it? Want it? Need it? Buy it.
168 Finishing Touch
An art installation in Denmark
brings heaven down to earth.
in Los Angeles partnering with PHOTOS BY Brian Flaherty
young designers to tackle the 70 Backstory
city’s homelessness crisis, and 140 Concepts
A devastating fire leads to a new
conclude with a floating home
beginning for a Victorian cottage Consider this academic’s theory
in Sausalito outfitted with a solar
in San Francisco. for protecting homes from floods.
array, a green roof, and, most Paul Gains
TEXT BY Joanne Furio TEXT BY
surprisingly, a disappearing bar. PHOTOS BY Joe Fletcher ILLLUSTRATIONS BY Jason Holley

44 Process 114 Prefab 144 Big Idea

A wallpaper studio in Arkansas Icelandic builders take on a A cool uncle creates a playland
reveals the steps that go into prefab project in Culver City. for his nieces and nephews.
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these days, but after seeing someone else’s copy,
I had to have it, @dwell!! Excellent issue!
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continue to be an
avid reader of Dwell
based on your out-
of-the-box thinking
and the freshness
of your reporting.
I do have a com-
ment when it comes
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compliance. Being a
builder and designer
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stairs constructed
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The new issue made me feel like
reading The Unknown Craftsman
again! (It’s funny that I am reading
it in English). Wrapping Soetsu
Yanagi’s words on the spine of
the magazine was a nice touch—
I agree that art is more beautiful
when it suggests something
deeper, something beyond its
appearance. Great words. I also
really liked the cabin on the cover.
The article shows that a good
house’s design should have a
personal connection to the owner.
The cabin was born from their
lifestyle! Very inspiring. It
reminded me of my grandparents’
house in the countryside of
Japan, surrounded by nature.
—Hiroko Takeda, New York
In the Design Matters issue of
your excellent magazine there
is an interesting article titled
“Circle of Friends,” which I very
much enjoyed. However! Who is
the poor soul who has to make
those bunk beds? There is no
easy way to make them at the best
of times but when crammed
together in a corner like that . . . !
I really wish designers would
consider these practical things.
—S. Maskell, Salt Spring Island,
British Columbia
The designer, Brian Paquette,
responds: The two bunkbeds the
kids are posing in for the photo
are used 95 percent of the time,
and the ones hidden in the corner
are for occasional guests. We
have our workroom make easily
tuckable bedding for just this rea-
son. It’s a casual cabin and like all
things in the home, the bunkbed
is built for ease and function.
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 dwell asks

What Design Trend Do You Wish Would Die?

In the age of the hashtag, fads emerge faster than ever.
“Hygge,” “Kondo-ing,” macramé—some crazes fall out of
favor eventually, while others persist interminably. We asked around:
What kind of design do you find grossly overrated?
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Subway tile, reclaimed
wood, and Edison bulbs.
Lloyd DesBrisay on Dwell
Midcentury modern. While
interesting to millennials, not so
much to those who grew up with it.
Laura Davies on Facebook
Brass—and soon, copper. It’s
artifice. Britt on Dwell
Chevron must go!
@sean_ike on Twitter
Painting brick houses white.
Lynda Berry Weaver on Facebook
Annual color forecasts.
@designreloaded on Twitter
Inspirational words painted in
various whimsical fonts on barn
boards. Please go away.
Catharine Saunders on Facebook
Rainscreen siding AKA wasp
nesting grounds.
@ma2_architects on Twitter
Color-coordinated books.
Gael Weber on Dwell
To me, shabby chic has always
been merely shabby.
Dick Rehse on Dwell
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Bohemian. If I wanted to navigate
a messy room full of overstuffed
throw pillows, I’d live in a dorm.
Michael Xavier on Facebook
Stags and deer on cushions.
Too contrived and twee.
@somewherefiona on Twitter
I am so tired of perfectly
tasteful, minimalist designs for
quiet yuppies who love coffee.
Give me something wild, extrava-
gant, unexpected, unsensible.
Killiam Smashes on Dwell

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Writer
Georgina Gustin
Hunt With the Hounds
page 102
Georgina Gustin is a
Washington, D.C., reporter
who focuses on food pol-
icy, farming, and the envi-
ronment. Her story for this
issue, a DIY midcentury
COMMUNITY
remodel in Wilmington,
Delaware, was unlike her
previous assignments for
the magazine. “Most of
the projects I’ve written
about for Dwell began in
someone’s imagination,”
she says. “This house
was already there, just
ready for another owner
who personalized it with
a lot of hard work and
persistence.” Georgina
has written for The New
York Times, New York
Magazine, The Washington
Post, and Gourmet.
“Brian Littleton’s apartment is just
a children’s wonderland come to life.”
—Tim McKeough, writer
20
Photographer
Stephen K. Johnson Sam Kaufman
Hunt With the Hounds
page 102
After studying at Brigham
Young University, pho-
tographer Stephen Kent
Johnson relocated to
New York. For this issue,
he visited Delaware to
shoot George Marrone and
Michael Nocera’s remodel.
The most memorable part,
he says, was meeting
their bulldogs, Sasha and
Sophie: “They would barrel
down the floating staircase
and charge the tripod,
yet they were surprisingly
elegant and accommodat-
ing models.” Johnson has
worked with Elle Decor,
New York Magazine,
Architectural Digest, and
The Wall Street Journal
Magazine, shooting mainly
interiors and still lifes.
contributors
Gallerist Photographer
Jamie Chung
Hunt With the Hounds Paper Trail
page 102 page 44
Sam Kaufman curates a Photographer Jamie Chung
lively selection of 20th- was raised in Pennsylvania
century objects at his and lives in Brooklyn. He
eponymous gallery in has worked with The New
Los Angeles, which he York Times, The Atlantic,
founded in 1999. His Bloomberg, Esquire,
specialty is postwar Apple, Google, and
ceramics and furniture Starbucks. For this issue,
from Italy, France, and he traveled to a formerly
Scandinavia, yet craft abandoned seed mill in a
antiques and artworks remote part of Arkansas to
from around the world capture the wallpaper stu-
occasionally appear in his dio Assemblage at work.
shop, as do midcentury- Jamie followed the crafts-
collector favorites. people as they handmade
Kaufman lent us his exper- a roll of their Gothic Leaf
tise, providing tips for pattern, a procedure that
what people should look normally takes four days,
for when buying vintage but which they condensed
pieces such as those seen to two for the shoot. He
in George Marrone’s 1959 recalls, “After seeing their
post-and-beam home. process and finished prod-
uct, I realized wallpaper
can be art.”
Writer
Tim McKeough
Child’s Play
page 144
New York journalist Tim
McKeough specializes
in design and has con-
tributed to The New York
Times, Architectural
Digest, and Elle Decor.
He pitched the story of
an ultra kid-friendly tri-
plex in Chicago, where
the residents’ nieces and
nephews can romp around
a net room, an indoor tree
house, and other custom
play areas. Tim could relate
to owner Brian Littleton.
“Growing up,” he says, “I
remember making prom-
ises to myself that when
I became a dad I would
provide all the things for
my kids that my parents
refused to provide for me,
like a backyard half-pipe.”
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 dwell listens
What Would Jonathan Adler Do?
Taxidermy as design device is a loaded topic, one that we’ve
lately explored in print and online. Designer Jonathan Adler, whose work
often references animal motifs, has a perspective that
we thought should be shared. Please join the conversation about
this complicated design matter at dwell.com/animal-decor.
COMMUNITY
Mexican artist Sergio Bustamante
is known by many, including designer,
potter, and artist Jonathan Adler,
for his zoomorphic metal sculptures.
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Whenever I am asked to single out my favorite
design trends, I often dither. What constitutes
a trend? Conversely, whenever I am asked about
my least favorite trends, I snap right back without
a moment’s hesitation: taxidermy.
In the last ten years, taxidermy has become cring-
ingly ubiquitous, an international symbol of hipster
glam. Opening an artisanal cocktail den? Hang a
bison on the wall and toss a jaunty hat on its horn.
Furnishing your rock star lair? A crouching tiger sets
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burgeoning lifestyle brand? Jet to Deyrolle in Paris
and pucker up.
Looks cool, right? Not to me—to me it’s a depress-
ing ode to animal cruelty. So when I opened my
March/April issue of Dwell, the sharing, caring, think-
PHOTO: COURTESY OF PALM BEACH AUCTIONS AND BIDSQUARE.COM (MONUMENTAL SERGIO BUSTAMANTE METAL LION)
ing man’s design magazine, and read editor-in-chief
Amanda Dameron’s provocative question, “Should
Animals Act as Decor?” my brain began to tingle. As
the old cliché goes: Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
My hope is that shedding light on the ethics of the
trend will cut the cool factor. An unsettling image in
the issue featured a (formerly) regal lion haunting the
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ited the trophy from his grandmother, who hunted it
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ing grandmother. Luckily, she was a bit more Danish
Modern than Safari Chic, so all I inherited from her
was a Bernard Buffet print and some great Bjørn
Wiinblads. No moral conundrum for moi.
Like many issues, taxidermy is . . . complicated.
I was born and bred in rural America. My neighbors
dined on venison under the watchful eyes of stuffed
bucks. I eat meat and wear leather, but I would never
wear fur. We all set our own limits.
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Glass Menagerie Horse sculpture. Biophilia is the
theory that humans have an innate need to commune
with non-human animals, that there is a primal and
energizing connection. But I think taxidermy misses
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Isamu Noguchi designed
more than 200 Akari
lanterns, all of which are
still handmade at the
same family-owned
factory in Gifu, Japan.

Light Fantastic
PHOTO: JAMIE CHUNG

Akari, the massively popular collection

of paper lanterns by Isamu Noguchi, is a bridge between
age-old craft and modern innovation.
DWELL MAY/ J U N E 2017 25
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product
When Isamu Noguchi (above, circa
1960) approached the Ozeki family
about producing his unorthodox
forms, they told him that his lanterns
would never sell. Every Akari piece
For Japanese-American
designer Isamu Noguchi (1904–
1988), using washi, or paper,
was a way to sculpt with light.
Noguchi had powerful mem-
ories of washi from a childhood
spent in Japan, and he never
forgot the lure of the material.
During a 1950 trip to Gifu,
Japan, a prefectural capital
known for its mastery of paper
techniques, the mayor asked
for Noguchi’s advice on how the
area could modernize.
“It was a logical conver-
gence of my long interest in
light sculptures, lunars, and
my being in Japan,” Noguchi
“This is what comes wrote in his 1968 autobiogra-
from old tradition, phy, A Sculptor’s World. “Paper
the use of washi 2?532>3@@ƎEE65:?H:E9
and the making of my feeling for the quality and
lanterns, which sensibility of light. Its very
lightness questions material-
extends its life into ity, and is consonant with our
the needs of our appreciation today of the
time.” Isamu Noguchi less thingness of things, the
26
TEXT BY
Amanda Dameron
is handcrafted in the Ozeki family’s
factory in Gifu, Japan (left). Each
PHOTOS: © 2017 THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM, NEW YORK/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
of more than 200 versions has its
own maker, who is specially trained
to create just that one design.
less encumbered perceptions.”
Calling the collection Akari,
or “light” in Japanese, was a
brilliant marketing move. “It’s
a perfectly ambiguous word
that can be interpreted in many
ways,” says Dakin Hart, senior
curator of The Noguchi Museum
in Queens, which will launch
a special exhibition of Akari in
2018. “It was a chance for him
to own a basic idea.”
Noguchi spent the rest of his
life creating more than 200
versions of the lamp. The forms’
simplicity is deceptive, and
knockoffs are ubiquitous. “If it
looks perfect, you can be sure
it isn’t authentic,” explains Hart.
“The bamboo ribs are hand-
tied and the tie spots are offset,
staggered. One can see the bump
because it’s fatter than just
the ribbing. They are imprecise
and imperfect, intended as a
small representation of nature
in your home.”
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houses we love Nate Berg Zack Benson

Mountain Song
A San Diego architect creates a bold, energy-efficient
complement to the Western landscape.
Solar panels are
affixed to the garage
roof, which is angled
to maximize exposure
(left). A custom rain-
gutter system collects
even slight amounts
of precipitation in an
underground cistern
and distributes it to
the yard. The Cor-Ten
pivoting window is by
Brian Linn of Vincent
Designs (below).

)URPWKHƤRRURI3DXPD9DOOH\LQ two main requirements: a golf course

northern San Diego County, the 6,142-foot
peak of Palomar Mountain is a dominating
presence. It virtually pours into one of
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to-ceiling wall of sliding glass doors and
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visual impact. Designed by San Diego–
based StudioAnderson, this 1,800-square-
foot two-bedroom residence is really a
mountain theater.
“I wanted the slope of the roof to go
right up to the top of the mountain, so that
as soon as you walk in, the mountain
is a presence in the house,” says architect
Aaron Anderson.
Owners Ron Krohn and Marjorie Koza
moved here from New Mexico after scour-
ing the West for a place to retire. They had
where she could play and an airstrip where
he could land his small plane. Surrounded
by agricultural land and Native American
reservations, Pauma Valley was once
home to a ranch owned by the actor John
Wayne and is now a community of mostly
Spanish-style and ranch homes from the
mid 20th century. Diverging from the
neighborhood’s norms, Anderson’s mod-
ernist design for the rectangular single-
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dramatically trapezoidal corrugated metal
garage, evoking the wing of an airplane
and a hangar. The landscape’s color palette
of grays, browns, and beiges directly
inspired the home and its outdoor spaces.
Anderson, a native of the valley, was
particularly drawn to the area’s live oak

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houses we love

slowly and then quite sharply.

“To me, all the Mission-style houses here are the
ones that are out of place.” Aaron Anderson, architect
trees; their smoky gray trunks translated
into the metal cladding of the roof and
garage, the home’s smooth stucco cladding,
and the patch of dark gravel next to the
property’s hilly driveway.
Dividing the terrain from the home is a
gabion wall of Cor-Ten steel and welded
wire mesh fencing, packed with river
stones. The barrier is low enough to allow
mountain views, but high enough to block
out the street and neighboring houses.
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Landscape designer Marilyn Guidroz
used decomposed granite as the primary
ground cover for the property, accented
with a couple dozen large boulders. The
planting is mostly made up of drought-
tolerant native grasses and shrubs like
buckwheat, as well as low-water non-native
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rosemary, honeysuckle, and jasmine.
Because the owners are beekeepers, Guidroz
curated the plantings so that there’d be
something in bloom all year. A custom gut-
ter system on the sloped roof directs
rainwater to a cistern, then to a network
of pipes and a leach line buried in the yard
for irrigation.
Solar panels provide enough power for
the residents to sell energy back to the grid,
and the home’s double-insulated steel
frame construction reduces the need for
heating and cooling. Hopper windows in
the great room help circulate air, as does
the custom steel-frame window in the
guest room.
Ron and Marjorie requested a relatively
small house, so the interior is pragmatic,
though there's ample space for the great
room and kitchen. But the essence of the
home is its relationship with the surround-
ing landscape. “The house is all about con-
necting to the site,” Anderson says. “The
important things are already there.”

The architecture firm

tackled the hardscape:
patios, pathways,
and gabion walls.
Landscape designer
Marilyn Guidroz
worked with existing
native plants on the
site and added more
species to ensure there
would be blooms year-
round for the bees kept
by resident Ron Krohn
(above). The gabions
(right) hold smooth
rocks from the nearby
San Luis Rey River;
a fireplace feature is
flanked by benches.

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 THE IRRESISTIBLE BEAUTY
OF MODERN, MINIMALIST
DESIGN – THE COMPOSED
FAUCET COLLECTION.
modern world TEXT BY ILLUSTRATION BY

profile Amanda Dameron Electra Sinclair

Michele De Lucchi
The legendary Italian architect, designer, and artist
discusses the power of empathy in design, the fight against
complacency, and the state of the design business today.

You were one of the founding
members of the Memphis
design movement, which
gained global notoriety in the
mid to late 1970s. What was
Italy like at that time?
In the 1970s, I was a student.
When you are a student, you
have all your life in front of you,
and you have to be optimistic.
I wanted to show myself as able
to make life better. It was also
a very special moment, because
in 1968 students started, espe-
cially in France and later in
Italy, to be openly against not
only the political regime, but
especially the concept that
everything should be immov-
able, closed, paralyzed by rules
and traditions, by conventions.
Especially conventions. This was
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against this bullying situation.
To show that the role of an
architect is much more exciting
and important than just to
design objects and buildings.
At the time, our belief was that
an architect and a designer
should not design to impose
their will, but should design to
excite the creativity of people.

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profile

Your breakout collection in
1979 was a series of proto-
types for everyday appliances.
At the time, you were quoted
as saying that objects are
meant to be used and loved
with joy. Do you still feel the
same way?
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(2 AND 6), ALESSANDRA CHEMOLLO (4), MICHELE DE LUCCHI (5)

PHOTOS: GIORGIO MOLINARI (1), LUCA TAMBURTINI

1 2 3

La Casa First Chair, Raggiante,

Decorata, 1979 1983 2017
A collection of lacquered- Considered to be one A recent creation
wood prototypes of of the most emblematic for Italian manufacturer
household appliances pieces of the Memphis Alessi, this bamboo clock
debuted at La Triennale design movement, this features Roman numerals
di Milano. piece caused a sensa- and a distinctive form
tion when it arrived with a diameter of nearly
in the United States. 20 inches. alessi.com

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profile

everyday life. I teach the

“Aesthetic of Misery.” I teach
the “Aesthetic of Chaos.” It’s
a way to teach that when one
designs something, they do not
design only objects, or only
buildings—they design the life
of people. And this understand-
ing cannot be cut away
from the design perspective.

Your firm recently completed a

home for Alzheimer’s patients.
It was a project I did for the
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brought to the university.
Alzheimer’s is a very unknown
disease. Those who suffer from
it, they live in a totally uncon-
trolled manifestation of stress.

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4 5 6

Nuova Manica C41, 2006 Tolomeo, 1987

Lunga, 2009 In 2004, De Lucchi Designed in collabora-
began creating a series tion with Giancarlo
The restoration of
of small wood structures, Fassina for Artemide,
a 15th-century
each carved using this articulating
library in Venice, Italy,
a chainsaw. The col- lamp is one of the
included accommo-
lection is his statement company’s bestsellers.
dation for more
about the essentiality artemide.com
than 100,000 books.
of architecture.

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Michele De Lucchi in his Milan studio, which is
located in a converted Art Nouveau building.
They do not have control. This
was very pressing to me,
because I had to think about
what it’s like to have a life that
is so extreme. So I asked the
students to design not only for
those who suffer from the dis-
ease, but also for the caregivers.
We need to create spaces for the
caregivers to come together, to
share their experiences with
each other. Because it is so
stressful, and it’s such a
responsibility. You can’t escape
it. For the student exercise, we
didn’t cross the technicalities,
just the human approach.

7 8

Centro Diurno Alitalia

Alzheimer, Headquarters,
2017 2011
This structure, due to A steel-bearing frame
be completed later this and expansive curtain
year, will support those wall allow natural light
suffering from the to suffuse the interiors

PHOTOS: MAX ROMMEL (PORTRAIT), ALESSANDRA CHEMOLLO (8); RENDERING COURTESY OF MICHELE DE LUCCHI (7)
disease as well as of this commercial
those caring for them. structure in Rome.

Because, especially for young “Memphis was there has to be a new bestseller. possible vision, a new imagina-
designers, they have to know a provocation. It’s a way to foresee the future. tion for the future. Sometimes
that it’s not only a matter of it’s quiet and sober, sometimes
Memphis is freedom
technicalities, it’s a matter of So it’s a good thing that the it’s very colorful, exciting, and
understanding life. If you don’t and optimism, market is demanding, so positive. How beautiful, then,
have the correct eyes to under- the best possible the creative mind stays active. that a discipline—one that in the
stand what’s happening around combination Yes, always. Always. It’s not past was just considered techni-
you, you cannot design for life. of feelings.” only a matter of design objects, cal—is becoming such an impor-
but also a matter of installing tant indicator for the moods and
Michele De Lucchi
As you prepare students for objects, and creating a new needs of the people.
making a living in the design
industry, it seems as though
the market expectation
8
for new works has sped up.
You know Salone del Mobile
in Milan every year? Every year,
every year. It’s almost a night-
mare. But what is exciting
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market. I mean, it’s fantastic.
Every year, we are forced to
present something new. And
when we present something
new, that doesn’t mean that

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nice modernist
Bridge the Gap
A Los Angeles architecture firm challenges
the young designers of the future to tap into the
intersection of empathy and innovation.
It’s a common complaint
about architecture school:
Students graduate with a port-
folio full of ambitious propos-
als but never really build
anything. Martin Architecture
and Design Workshop
(MADWorkshop) is trying to
make that a thing of the past.
“We want to be the catalyst
to get student ideas into real-
ity,” says architect David
Martin, who cofounded the
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Monica–based incubator has
seen students reimagine every-
thing from public furniture
to 3D-printed wearable tech.
But their biggest challenge
so far has been partnering
with the University of
Southern California School
of Architecture to tackle the
homelessness crisis in Los
Angeles County, where an
estimated 47,000 people are
chronically without housing.
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“We started by studying
homelessness as an architec-
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Borges, MADWorkshop’s acting
director and co-leader of the
Homeless Studio program.
To understand the problem, 11
fourth-year students embarked
last fall on a series of assign-
ments: creating a shopping-
cart-sized shelter, crafting a
structure from found materi-
als, and designing a prototype
modular system that could be
used to provide an “emergency
stabilization” solution as the
city embarks on a $1.2 billion
project to build 10,000 perma-
nent apartments for homeless
people over the next decade.
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empathy and the second devel-
oped building and construction
skills,” says Borges. “The third,”
she adds, “was what we really
needed to do for the semester,”
referring to the modular sys-
tem the students developed,
which they used to design
a 30-unit women’s shelter for
Hope of the Valley Rescue
Mission as a pilot. Along the
way, the students navigated
the city’s labyrinthine permit
process and building codes,
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Heather Corcoran Peter Oumanski
hillside concerns, are among MO BI L E A N D
the most stringent in the MA L L E A BL E
country. “If you can do it in The students came
L.A., you can do it anywhere,” up with three proposals
for a senior women’s
explains R. Scott Mitchell,
shelter, which they
Borges’s partner. synthesized into a
Though the semester is over, single design based
Hope of the Valley continues to on a 92-square-foot
raise money to build the shel- module. Each unit,
a steel-framed box
ter. And the students expect of structural insulated
that if the project begins to panels, can be stacked
scale, costs will go down, three high on a flatbed
enabling similar housing solu- truck and installed
anywhere in just two
tions to be used around the weeks at a cost of
country. It’s a cause for hope about $25,000. “It’s
for MADWorkshop, but that super sturdy so that
doesn’t mean the Martins are it’s truckable, fork-
liftable, and movable,
planning to stop there. They’re
and can be relocated
already looking to the incuba- again and again,”
tor’s next challenge: emergency says Sofia Borges,
architecture to be deployed in who led the program.
areas affected by disaster.
“Our mission is not to solve
social ills, but to say that the
design process can be used in
a number of ways that can
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says. “It could be medicine,
architecture, or even some
form of fashion. Our thought
is, it’s the design process that’s
exciting, and if we can be the
catalyst to get some of these
societal issues under the focus
of these creative young people,
then that’s a good idea.”
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A good deal of the home’s energy controlled remotely, while Sunny

is harvested via a Sun First photovol-
taic system (left) that’s backed up
by 24 Concorde AGM deep-cycle
batteries. An emergency shut-off
system from MidNite Solar can be
SensorBox monitors offer tracking
of wind speed and temperature.
Automatic retractable Sky-Frame
windows open the living room
completely on two sides (below).

For two months in spring and again

in fall, Herbie Schlaepfer and Barbara
Haeusermann lock up their house near
Zurich, Switzerland, travel some 6,000
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country cabin, the couple’s newly built,
2,894-square-foot home is like a palate
cleanser for the eyes. One zinc cube canti-
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it rejected, the couple purchased a tear-
down relic from the area’s Bohemian

Water Sports
Energy-smart technology makes managing a Sausalito
floating home easy, even from 6,000 miles away.

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Of Geometry
and Gemstones
Inspired by the geometry of precious
gemstones and mid-century modern
architecture, a three-story residence in
Seattle resembles an emerald-cut diamond
faceted with expansive windows framing
views of downtown, Mt. Baker, and Mt.
Rainier.
Owners Rebecca Bridge and Evan
Lundgren are lifelong residents of the
Seattle area. From a young age, Bridge was
enthralled by the beauty and geology of
the region, later becoming a gemologist
for a local jeweler. The couple’s dream
was to build a home designed around
entertaining their nearby extended family.
They purchased a one-story with a
basement, drawn by views of the water,
mountains, and skyline—a landscape
Bridge recalls from childhood. Knowing
it would require an extensive renovation,
they contacted Joseph McKinstry
Construction Company, who connected
A DV E RT I S M E N T
them to Amy Janof, principal at Janof
Architecture.
“With both gems and architecture, there’s
a geometric rhythm at work,” says Janof.
Known for incorporating her clients’
personalities into the project while
optimizing for the surrounding view,
Janof based the design both on Rebecca’s
interest in gems and Evan’s connection
to the water, incorporating numerous
sailboat-inspired shapes.
Throughout the home, windows extend
up to the ceiling plane, and the living
room appears to be suspended in space,
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A touch of a button summons the
bar from its berth in the lower D H
level, where the home theater also
resides when not in use (left and
below left); the systems are custom J
installations by Classic Innovations.
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The living room furniture is from
Roche Bobois (below). I
Barge Floor
and to our boat.” Herbie Schlaepfer, resident
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 My Vision:
Contemplate every view
to connect
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with the outdoors.

— Warren Lloyd, AIA LEED AP
Lloyd Architects, Salt Lake City

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process TEXT BY PHOTOS BY

Arlene Hirst Jamie Chung

At Assemblage, a wallpaper of two sets required to cre- in the studio (opposite).

producer working out of ate each of the company’s Because the wallpaper must
a former seed mill in Witter, precisely detailed products. dry at several intervals during
Arkansas, it’s all about An in-progress Gothic Leaf its production, each roll
the hand, with a minimum design lies on a worktable takes four full days to finish.

With their company Assemblage,

the husband-and-wife team of Heidi
and Christian Batteau have turned
a quiet town in rural Arkansas into
a small but thriving center for hand-
crafted wallpapers.
Although they met as students at
the Kansas City Art Institute, it wasn’t
until they took a course abroad in
Europe that romance bloomed. To be
together after graduation, Christian,
a native Californian, moved with

Paper Trail A couple’s quest to

reinvent wallcoverings takes them
from New York to the Ozarks.
44 MAY / J U N E 2017 DWELL
process
 HELLO, WALLS
The Assemblage team shows the handcraft behind its
charcoal-and-copper Gothic Leaf pattern.

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ROLL COAT
A nine-foot roll of paper is primed with hand rollers Using traditional Italian plaster trowels,
by artisans Eric Hille and Taylor White. the team applies a base coat of plaster that has been
mixed with marble dust.

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L AY FIRST STENCIL PEEL

+96ƎCDEDE6?4:=O2@E9:4A2EE6C?O:DA@D:E:@?65 The stencil is removed and then spray-washed
on the plaster base. A second coat of plaster is applied over to use again and again.
the stencil with Japanese blades.

Heidi to Brooklyn, and for many years
they both had thriving careers. He
made sculptures and founded an art-
for-architecture company with his
sister, creating wallpapers for Peter
Marino, Dior, and Axel Vervoordt,
among others. Heidi found equal suc-
cess as a textile designer, with a client
list that included Carnegie, Knoll,
Maharam, Starwood, and Starbucks.
But after almost eight years, they
began to tire of city living. “We were
both doing well, but not seeing the
life we wanted,” says Christian. It was
time to think about children, and
raising a family in the city seemed
impossible. They started looking at
places nearby like Beacon, New York,
a favorite for craftspeople. But the
idea to move back to Heidi’s home-
town of Witter, Arkansas, an unincor-
porated community in the Ozarks
with a population of about 600, sud-
denly made sense when, after a trip to
visit Heidi’s parents, they saw a vacant
old seed mill. It looked like the perfect
place to set up a workshop, even
though it had no ready water source.
They decided to start a custom
wallpaper business in the remote
location, generating exquisite,
art-like designs worthy of their
world-class former clienteles. It
was based on a crucial discovery:
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a paper from her industry sources
that would not crack, even when
embedded with layers of marble
dust, plaster, metals, beeswax, and
lacquer, when rolled. This made
long-distance shipping possible,
even from Arkansas to Tokyo.

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 process

INSPECT ADD TOP COAT

After the stencil is removed, the team examines A topcoat of marble-dust plaster is applied with
the surface with dental tools while the plaster is still wet to Japanese blades, working horizontally and vertically to create
make sure that each cross is perfect. a grid-like pattern instead of streaky lines.

L AY SECON D STENCIL APPLY COPPERLEAF

A second stencil with fewer openings is positioned. Sizing—a type of The team then uses cheesecloth to
adhesive that retains its tack longer than glue—is applied with a dabbing apply copperleaf squares to the areas where the
motion using a stencil pouncer, which is like a foam stamp. sizing was administered.

Every step from priming

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The stencils are designed

on the computer, printed,
and then hand-punched,
here by Amos and Christina
Blackwood and Christian
and Heidi Batteau, seen
from left to right.

DWELL MAY/ J U N E 2017 47

process

Ʊ Ǐʲ

REVEAL CLEAN
The stencil is pulled off, revealing the One person goes over the paper with a cheesecloth,
copper crosses beneath. another with a knife, working to remove any excess leaf
bits, which are known as skewings.

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Carnauba and beeswax are then carefully administered +96A2A6C:D92?5W3F7765E@4C62E62A@=:D965Ǝ?:D9O
with a rag, making sure that the entire surface is evenly a step that requires two hardworking sets of hands.
covered and avoiding excess wax.

Depending on the number of orders
they have, the couple either do all the
work themselves or hire up to six
people to help. While the region is
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workers is not a problem. The Ozarks
has a long crafts tradition: Heidi’s
mother owns a handcrafted textile
company, Dogwood Designs, based in
Witter. “People here are different
from those in the city,” says Christian.
“They have common-sense intelli-
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or her own car and plumbing. People
here live off of what they make.”
In the beginning, all of their work
was custom, creating wallpapers to
order for brands like Tiffany & Co.,
Louis Vuitton, and Chanel. But in the
past three years they have developed
a collection of 30 designs, each avail-
able in a range of colors. Assemblage
can also supply custom colorations at
no additional charge. The wallpapers
are $60 to $400 a yard and can be
shipped globally and easily installed.
The couple explain that the work
cannot be mechanized. Every
step—sometimes 12 in total, from
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is done by hand. “We approach it as
art,” Christian says.
He admits that moving to Witter from
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The town has no movie theater and no
Chinese or Indian restaurants. Forget
take-out and delivery. But the couple,
now with two children ages three and
two, happily raise their own livestock
and vegetables and hope to take their
7,000-square-foot factory completely off
the grid some day. Already they’ve added
a rainwater catchment system.
They’d also like to open a collaborative
artists’ studio, but only when the time
is right. “We want to grow at a steady
rate,” says Christian. “We put beauty and
quality before quantity.”

48 MAY / J U N E 2017 DWELL

Founded in 2013, Assemblage
offers a bespoke alternative to
mass-produced printed wall-
papers. Everything begins in its
Arkansas studio, but the designs
can be found around the world.

“People here live off of

what they make.”
Christian Batteau, cofounder

DWELL MAY/ J U N E 2017 49

outside TEXT BY PHOTOS BY

Zachary Sachs Undine Pröhl

Outward Bound
A family builds a hilltop home with
a provincial park for its neighbor.

The charred-wood facade on

Silping Wong and Jon Friesen’s
house in western Canada was
hand-done by Jon and his father.
They used Douglas fir, a thick, corky
wood that is local to the region.

50 MAY / J U N E 2017 DWELL

outside

Positioned on a rocky outcropping in

Coldstream, British Columbia, Jon Friesen
and Silping Wong’s home presents a
paradox: The glassy box, cantilevered into
space, suggests lightness and pure form,
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and raw steel gives the impression of solid-
ness, utility. The house, designed by D’Arcy
Jones, has an air of being at once rugged,
broken-in, and effortless. “It was built to
be very tough, like a farmer’s post,” Jones
says, “but also delicate relative to the site.”
The house overlooks Kalamalka Lake
Provincial Park, located roughly halfway
between Calgary and Vancouver. When Jon
and Silping, both medical professionals,
embarked on the project, they had in mind
a dwelling that complemented their

The 1,900-square-foot home, “We didn’t treat the steel,” explains

designed by architect D’Arcy Jones, Jon. “We said, you know what,
is made of cement, raw steel, and we’re going to let it rust. And the
charred wood, materials that were concrete block wall—you just sort
chosen for their low maintenance. of leave it and let it age.”

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All of the plants are native to the on the landscaping with Jones.
area. “I was trying to re-create what “The garden is also super low-
I have out my front door, where the impact. I don’t water it at all, and
park starts,” says Jon, who worked my kill rate is less than five percent.”

“You come up from the carport and see this

long breezeway and the house in the distance,
and you kind of decompress as you walk to it.”
D’ARCY JONES, ARCHITECT

lifestyle, which is oriented around out-

door activities. “We knew that we wanted
the house to be an extension of the park,
to feel like it had organically grown out of
the park, rather than like it was imposed
upon it,” Jon says. “We wanted to feel, no
matter where we were in the house at any
given time of day, that we were walking
around in the park.”
The climate in the area ranges from
freezing winters to summers that can
top 100 degrees. The project’s original pre-
cept—to keep the house open to that
environment yet comfortable year-round—
led to structural innovations that became
sources of inspiration. The need for heat
retention led to the early decision to
tightly enclose the interior in an exacting
arrangement of rigid insulation, using
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at cantilevered spaces to keep the cold from
entering; in engineering this solution
the insulation became the structural
support. This dual role became the starting
point for an approach that emphasized
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Friesen-Wong Residence N

ARCHITECT D’Arcy Jones Architecture

LOCATION Coldstream, British Columbia

A Pottery Studio
B Sports Shed
C Entrance
D Kitchen B A
E Hot Tub
F Living/Dining
Area
G Master Bedroom
H Master
Bathroom
I Bathroom
J Play Room
K Bedroom K

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E
G

touches: A standard concrete Sonotube

used as a support column was hollowed out
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“Saddlebag” units under the overhangs
increased storage and temperature control
while reducing the glass budget. The proj-
ect became centered on simplicity and
economy. As Jones puts it, “You take out all
the fat and say, ‘Okay, what we have left
are the things that matter most.’”
Jon agrees: “The approach evolved
between the two of us during the design
process—for example, choosing materials
that require very little to no upkeep, with
the idea that the patina of these materials
will weather over time, and that that’s
okay.” Jones had decided to clad the house
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thick and corky soft wood that is native to
the region. He was considering various
treatments when Jon stumbled upon shou
sugi ban, the traditional Japanese method
of charring cedar to cure it against weather
and infestation. “I got in and did it

A custom table designed by Jones pendant is by Viso. The living area

features a pull-out bench on one includes a red Canyon sectional by
side (top) and 1C dining chairs by Bensen and a Pensi ceiling fan
Room B on the other; the Globo by Modern Fan Company (above).

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outside

“We didn’t have visions of big swaths of art across

the walls. We viewed the outside environment as the
ever-changing canvas in front of us.”
JON FRIESEN, RESIDENT

myself,” Jon says. “My dad helped me

out—we rented a couple of Tiger torches
and actually did all of the burning over
a month and a half.”
Entering the house from the carport,
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covered path that borders an inner garden
of native plants. The passage from the
street to the house becomes a sort of peace-
ful interlude in the experience of the
space—a sonic and textural dimension
suggesting a kind of portal. “In a rural
setting, that would be the gravel under your
tires,” says Jones. “It makes you feel like
you’re on your own chunk of land.”
Protruding overhead cupboards left), the cabinetry is by High
increase storage space and reduce Country Cabinets and the counter-
solar gain (top). The bed is Dodu top is Caesarstone. The bathtub is
by Blu Dot. In the kitchen (above Aquabagno by Aquabrass (above).

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Lindsay J. Warner

Birds-Eye View
The shape of a tree’s canopy
inspires the expansion of
PHOTOS: LOUKAS YIACOUVAKIS

a ramshackle cabin in Quebec.

By building upward and outward,
YH2 Architecture added to a former
lumberman’s shed (inset) without
harming the nearby trees. The new
1,300-square-foot home is tucked
away in southeastern Quebec.

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“ The idea was to mirror the forest in our
design without disturbing it in our execution.”
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The pentagonal geometry of the
third story is echoed by an Alumilex
window (top). The addition rises
above the original shack’s 400-
square-foot concrete foundation,
64
which is partially visible in the
living room (above). A Cricket patio
chair by Hershy Way is used for
indoor seating opposite a Morsø
wood-burning stove.
Landscape architect Suzanne Rochon
spent more than two years searching for
an isolated weekend getaway close to her
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densely wooded acres with an old lumber-
jack’s shed in the Eastern Townships
region in 2002, Suzanne says she “fell in
love with the land and nearly forgot to visit
the shack.” No wonder. The rough-sided
structure had just one window and a Dutch-
style barn door for light. It had electricity,
but no running water. It was also strewn
with items discarded by the hunters who
occasionally used it. It was, in a word,
“disgusting,” as she remembers.
Suzanne spent the next 10 years work-
ing on the building, which was constructed
on a concrete slab measuring 400 square
feet. She added windows, a rain barrel,
and a composting toilet and began remov-
PHOTOS: FRANCIS PELLETIER
ing dead trees to clear out a view of the
nearby mountain, doing nearly all of the
work herself.
While Suzanne treasured the tiny haven,
it didn’t offer much in the way of modern
conveniences for visiting friends. Yet she
didn’t want to expand beyond the home’s
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original perimeter for fear of compromis-

ing the mix of spruce, hemlock, maple,
birch, larch, and beech trees harboring it.
So when she approached Loukas
Yiacouvakis and Marie-Claude Hamelin,
partners at YH2 Architecture, in 2012, she
was unyielding on just one point: The ren-
ovation must not exceed the existing foot-
print. Clearly, the only way forward was
upward. For Hamelin, that meant looking
to the surrounding forest for ideas.
“A tree begins as a narrow trunk, and
then branches out into a wider canopy—
we simply applied the same principle,”
says Hamelin, the lead architect. “The idea
was to mirror the forest in our design
without disturbing it in our execution.”
Clad in dark cedar, the home now stands
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La Colombière N

ARCHITECT YH2 Architecture

LOCATION Brome-Missisquoi, Quebec

PHOTOS: FRANCIS PELLETIER; ILLUSTRATION: LOHNES + WRIGHT

D
Second Floor

A
First Floor

C F
B E

A Kitchen
B Dining Area
C Living Area
D Mechanical Room
I
E Bathroom
G F Master Bedroom
Architects Marie-Claude Hamelin is a master bedroom, bathroom,
Third Floor

and Loukas Yiacouvakis connected
the home’s three levels in dramatic
fashion. Ash treads float on a steel
stringer from the ground floor to the
mezzanine (top). The second floor
G Deck
and mechanical room, along with H H Lounge
an open volume that fills the house I Bedroom
with light from the Alumilex doors
and windows (above). The paint
is Distant Gray by Benjamin Moore.

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that project outward to create a pen-

tagonal volume. The cozy nest resembles
nothing so much as a birdhouse, or dove-
cote. Which is why Suzanne named it La
Colombière, meaning The Dovecote in
her native French.
Two large doors bridge the gap between
the surrounding landscape and the con-
crete that still makes up the living room
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white-painted studs appear throughout
the dwelling, which is heated by a wood-
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and splits. A sculptural staircase made
of ash wood and supported by a black-
painted steel structure wends upward
past Suzanne’s second-story bedroom
and bath—now with running water—to a
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large window to the east and a balcony to
the west. Here, guests can sleep, read, or
catnap in the sunbeams that stream
through the oversized windows, or simply
perch on the covered deck, at home with
the birds in La Colombière’s tiny aerie.

“With the spruces,

conifers, and
evergreens in this

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area, the top is
never straight.
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is straight.”
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Cedar shingles wrap the exterior
(top), while the interior is spare and
modern. The cabinets and chairs are
from IKEA. So is the table, which has
a DIY laminated-ash top (above).
Suzanne Rochon bought the cabin
in 2002 and spent a decade fixing
it up (inset) before calling on YH2
Architecture. In 2005, she added
five acres, doubling the property.

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backstory TEXT BY PHOTOS BY

Joanne Furio Joe Fletcher

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Red Dot Studio rehabbed a histori-

cally designated 1890 cottage
after a blaze destroyed its interiors
in 2008. A LaCantina sliding door
ushers light into the new home.
The Norooz rug is by Peace Industry.

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In San Francisco, the tug between new
(slick, contemporary condos) and old
(wood Victorians) plays out in Dogpatch,
a historic district that houses a large col-
lection of turn-of-the-20th-century homes
that survived the 1906 earthquake. One of
those Victorians is an 1890 cottage that
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but the shell. That allowed a young couple
who’d been searching for a single-family
home to have the best of both worlds:
a Victorian with 21st-century interiors.
“The fact that it was in such a bad state
made everything possible,” says Patrice
Martin, who owns the cottage with her hus-
band, Nathan Wilson. “It was a blank
D=2E6Nl.96?E964@FA=6:?DA64E65E96ƎC6W
ravaged house, they were living in a
Mission District apartment with their
infant daughter. Despite the building’s
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back door that opened onto a void where
once stood a deck, they saw potential.
Patrice loved the home’s historic facade,
small footprint, and pedigree. It is one
of late-19th-century architect John Cotter
72
Dogpatch Cottage N
ARCHITECT Red Dot Studio
LOCATION San Francisco, California
A Garage E Master H Living/
B Laundry Bedroom/Bath Dining Area
C Bathroom F Deck I Bridge
D Bedroom G Entrance J Kitchen
F F
E J
C
D
D
I
C C
ILLUSTRATION: LOHNES + WRIGHT
B
Second Floor
H
First Floor
A
Pelton Jr.’s so-called “Cheap Dwellings”—
kit houses designed in working-class
enclaves of the city. Today 13 remain in
the Dogpatch neighborhood.
Before they even bought the house,
E964@FA=6<?6HE96JH2?E65=@42=ƎC>)65
Dot Studio to renovate it. Nathan and
'2EC:46925366?:>AC6DD653J2)65@E
makeover that turned a one-bedroom
into a three-bedroom without any addi-
tions. They purchased the structure in 2013,
9:C65)65@EO2?55:G:565E96:C=23@CN
As co-leader and creative director of the
?@?AC@ƎE56D:8?@C82?:K2E:@? &N@C8O
Patrice works on projects fueled by the
notion that human-centered design can
improve lives. One of her recent projects
was Design Kit, an online learning plat-
form that seeks to “tackle the challenges
of poverty.” She was the natural choice
to collaborate on the renovation design
decisions. Nathan, a private investor,
oversaw budgeting and construction. A bridge (above left) links the living
area to the kitchen (above). Swell
The home’s historic designation meant
lights by Pablo hang above Hot
that any alterations to its exteriors, mostly Mesh stools from Blu Dot. The mill-
F?D42E9653JE964@?Ə28C2E:@?O925E@ work is by J. Spix Fine Cabinets.
MAY / J U N E 2017 DWELL
 backstory
By eliminating the attic and carv-
ing out a former crawl space, Red
Dot Studio created room for the
residents’ bedrooms underneath the
primary living areas. The slatted-
hickory-and-glass bridge allows
light from a row of skylights to pen-
etrate deep into the lower level.

73
backstory

adhere to strict guidelines. But inside, Because of the home’s historic

(Time) Line of Fire
More than a century after it was
built, a historic kit house in San
Francisco went up in smoke.
Eight years later, it was reborn.
1995
1995
everything had to go. This was a silver lin- designation, the team was limited
in what they could change about
ing. Such historic homes have notoriously
the facade. They were allowed to
dark railroad layouts in which narrow repaint it, however, from baby blue
hallways lead to one room after another. to Gray Cloud by Benjamin Moore.
In their redesign, architect Karen Curtiss,
)65@EkDAC:?4:A2=O2?5AC@;64E56D:8?6C
Alix Daguin focused on the building’s core.
“The idea is that we had a simple house
and a side yard that lets in all this south-
ern light,” Curtiss says. “We wanted to go
up and capture some of that light.”
Working with an empty shell, the design-
ers created a 13-foot ceiling on the main
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that they tucked a “house-within-a-house”
against the southern wall. The mini-
house encloses a guest and powder room.
Its “roof” catches the sun that pours in
through four skylights above it.
The designers then directed that light

The 105-year-old downstairs by keeping the rest of the

Dogpatch cottage
becomes a desig-
nated historical
resource.

2 005 Above an enclosed volume contain-

ing a powder room and guest room,
2005

The Dogpatch
a quartet of skylights brightens the
Historical District is
living and dining area. A Sonneman
established.
Stiletto pendant offers extra light.
2 008

A fire breaks out,

gutting the cottage
2008

and causing
$900,000 worth
of damage.

2 013

Current owners
buy the burned-out
structure.
2013

JANUARY 201 4

Red Dot Studio

begins the design
process.

APR I L 201 4
2014

Permits to alter
the interior and
exterior are filed
with the city.

2 015

Permit to remodel
2015

the interior received,

construction begins.

APR I L 201 5

Final remaining per-

mits are approved.
2016

N OVE M BE R 25, 201 5

Move-in day.

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The motif of slatted hickory con-
tinues in the bold open-plan mas-
ter suite (below), which features
multifaceted Diamond White tile by
Porcelanosa and a Hoffman bed,
with its headboard removed, from
Room & Board. The lower level is
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76
distinguished by stained concrete
flooring. In the hallway (right),
a Molded Plastic Chair by Charles
and Ray Eames for Herman Miller
offers a place for the residents
to remove their coats and shoes.
The seat has an Eiffel base.
core open. “Indirect light is a nicer, softer
light,” says Daguin. A bridge that connects
the kitchen to the living/dining area is
made of slatted hickory and a glass panel,
which also helps send light downward.
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ing height also helped make the down-
stairs more hospitable, turning what had
been mostly crawl space into a master
bedroom suite and a bedroom and bath for
the two young children the couple now
have. Today the house boasts an additional
600 square feet of living space—in all,
some 1,480 square feet.
The team stuck to a simple material
palette, choosing hickory, cedar, steel, and
glass—“so in the small space, you aren’t
overwhelmed,” says Curtiss. The biggest
back-and-forth was over how much exposed
wood versus how much white paint to use.
To comply with historic preservation,
the designers rebuilt the deck with cedar.
Using metal would have allowed more
light into the downstairs, but the city felt
wood was more historically appropriate.
In the end, the couple got what they
wanted. Charm on the outside and moder-
nity on the inside, not to mention family
who live three blocks away. “We spend
a lot of time in our home,” says Nathan. “As
we watch our girls play or have family din-
ners, I still have moments where I pause
and think, ‘Wow, we waited and worked to
get here, and now it’s happening.’”
MAY / J U N E 2017 DWELL
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 TEX T BY PHOTOS BY

Kelly Vencill Sanchez Michael Schmidt

In designing for themselves in Phoenix,

Ethan Wessel and Sarah Swartz Wessel
explore architecture as a
living, breathing, changing art.

In Praise

78 MAY / J U N E 2017 DWELL

 dwellings

of Shadows

The Phoenix home of didn’t have the finances

designers and builders to tear it down and build
Sarah Swartz Wessel and everything we wanted,
Ethan Wessel sits amid but we knew the house
desert-friendly trees would grow with us,”
and plants. The couple Sarah explains. “It has
bought the property in an open floor plan, yet
1998 and worked on the within that are spaces
house for a decade. defined by their relation-
“In the beginning, we ship to the outdoors.”

79
dwellings
Set on a winding street and screened by
clusters of creosote bushes and palo verde
and ironwood trees, Ethan Wessel and
Sarah Swartz Wessel’s Phoenix residence
does little to call attention to itself. And
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‘Where’s the house?’” Ethan says. But step
through the gate, and the front courtyard
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the living/dining room to the rear
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As evidenced by that last feature, the
house is not just a family home for the
designers and their sons—Addison, 17, and
Elliot, 13—but a richly personal expression
of what intrigues and delights them.
Designed over the course of 10 years and
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the pair explore, experiment, and even
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Ethan explains.
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beamed ceilings, and walls of hand-trow-
eled plaster and board-formed concrete,
glass is strategically placed throughout the
4,000-square-foot expanse to frame slivers
80
@7=2?5D42A62?5D<J@C@A6?H:56E@ Sarah and her sons wall is one of Yoshitomo
reveal gardens of various sizes, which the prepare a meal in the Nara’s signature eye-
kitchen (above), which patch portraits. In the
couple also designed. Rooms spill onto
the Wessels recently dining area (opposite),
patios that become extensions of the house. upgraded with Bulthaup chairs found in an antique
j'6@A=6E9:?<D:>A=JAFEE:?8:?25@@C@C2 cabinets, counters, store join a table the
window will connect the interior and exte- and sink. The stovetop Wessels made from a piece
C:@CO3FE:EkD>@C6E92?E92EOlD2JD*2C29N is from Gaggenau of mesquite. Overhead
and the faucet is from is Lindsey Adelman’s
+969@>6kDE9:4<OE6IEFC65H2==D2C62 Dornbracht. On the far Branching Bubble fixture.
modern nod to traditional adobe buildings;
their mass ensures a cool respite from the
scorching summer heat, while deep over-
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place concrete is a very appropriate
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into the desert palette.”
The couple met while attending Arizona
State University’s architecture school.
Though both hail from elsewhere—Sarah
from Washington State and Ethan from
Connecticut—they remained in Phoenix
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Studio in 2001 and Tennen Construction
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word meaning ‘existing in nature’ or ‘com-
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happen naturally and embrace nature.”
MAY / J U N E 2017 DWELL
dwellings
Board-formed concrete
walls create the core of
the house and establish
its organic feel. “There’s
really no other cast-in-
place concrete on the
street,” says Sarah, “but
you don’t even see it until
you’ve made it through
the front courtyard.”
82
There, beneath a deep
overhang, the couple
designed a jagged path-
way cantilevered over
a water feature—bring-
ing the sounds of water
inside and reflections of
light into the sitting area
(opposite). The lacquered
console is by Robert Kuo.
 “The tactile experience of our
home is dependent on the changing
desert light as it plays off the
layers of textures inside and out .”
Ethan Wessel , designer and resident

DWELL MAY/ J U N E 2017 83

 ŹyÓÇĚÇļżƙǘ ļƙƆŇķÓƙĔĚļûõ ƆĔǞ
or different. The house is the same height
as the house that was here before ,
and the pitch of the roof is the same .”
Sarah Swartz Wessel , designer and resident

84 MAY / J U N E 2017 DWELL


The bocce court (right)
sits between the master
bedroom patio and an
outdoor dining area fea-
turing Jean-Marie
Massaud’s Seashell chairs
from Dedon (below). To
bring in natural light while
dwellings
limiting direct exposure,
the couple designed a
horizontal window for
the music room. Beyond
the bocce court is the
skate bowl, which the
Wessels designed with
CA RampWorks.

Wessel Residence N

DESIGNER Tennen Studio

LOCATION Phoenix, Arizona

A Patio M Music Room

B Bedroom N Tea Room
C Bathroom O Dining Area
D Entrance P Kitchen
E Mechanical Room Q Powder Room
F Study R Laundry Room
G Living Room S Carport
H Closet T Storage
I Master Bedroom
J Master Bathroom
K Sitting Room
L Living Patio
T S

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dwellings
For the Wessels, tennen is more than a
design philosophy; it suffuses everything
they do. Their fascination with Japanese
culture and design sensibilities extends to
the line of incense burners and Japanese
incense they recently began producing.
After buying the property in 1998, the
couple stripped down its undistinguished
1950s house and lived in it for about a year
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also wanted to create something that
would show what we could do.”
Tearing down the old house, save for one
wall, they began with a footprint in the
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an open living/dining space that extends to
86
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did the house, which grew, according to
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addition of a master bedroom wing. Along
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formed the playroom into a music room
and the family room into a tea room.
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and the boys can carve and grind or just
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a fort for teenagers who no longer want
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planted each season with help from the
sustainable gardening consultants at
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food came from tugged at me. The boys are
very involved in it—they do the harvesting
and bring the vegetables up to the house.”
Whether they’re augmenting their
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or punching out a wall to open up a new
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regret it, but not very often,” says Sarah.
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that are really instinctual.”
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Shaded by an awning Italian parsley (above).

from TSM Systems and
furnished with Sol y
Luna pieces from Design
Within Reach, the rear
patio is a favorite spot
for meals (opposite).
The vegetable garden
produces everything from
cauliflower to arugula and
In the music room,
skateboards are stored
below spray paints the
family and friends use to
decorate the skate bowl
(right). Addison stands
on the deck of the bowl
above graffiti art by
Lalo Cota (far right).

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Greg Cox MAY / J U N E 2017 DWELL
 Lofted amid eucalyptus
and oak trees, Graham
Paarman’s house is a
glassed-in, steel-frame
structure with a veil of

of Cape
vertical slats. Excluding
outdoor areas, it measures
about 720 square feet. Town,
a tower-like hideout
family estate.
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design mimics the sur-
rounding woods. On
each floor, steel rings

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and columns support
Western red cedar floor
joists above (opposite).
The kitchen features elm
cabinets (left) made by
Valcucine in Italy. The
bathroom tap is by Vola
(below) and the sink is
by Ceramica Flaminia.

The Constantia Valley in Cape Town,

South Africa, is the oldest wineland region
in the country, with some of the vineyards
dating back more than 300 years. The area
is famous for its natural beauty, but it is
also known for its concentration of histori-
cal Cape Dutch architecture.
Graham Paarman’s family estate, with
its extensive, forest-like gardens and spec-
tacular views of the valley and mountains
in the distance, clearly references the style.
The manor house and other buildings are
arranged along the lines of a Cape Dutch
werf, or traditional Cape farmyard.
Some time ago, while on a trip to Italy,
Graham discovered a book of modern tree
houses, which planted a seed in his mind.
He works long hours at the family culinary
Paarman Tree House N business and yearned, he says, for “a sense
of escapism from the realities of modern
ARCHITECT LOCATION
Malan Vorster Architecture Interior Design Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa
life.” He began nurturing the idea that he’d
like to live among the trees in a one-bed-
room retreat, away from the more devel-
A Balcony D Dining Nook G Bathroom
B Kitchen E Stairs H Roof Deck oped parts of the estate.
C Living Area F Bedroom I Pergola He envisioned something subtle and
small, probably asymmetrical. “I never
wanted a building that was going to impose
D itself,” says Graham. “I hoped it would
blend in and enhance its surroundings, and
would invite the outside in.”
A I Malan Vorster Architecture Interior
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C E F E H Design had worked on the estate over the

years and Graham approached them with
B E his idea. “I wasn’t prescriptive,” he says. “I
gave them fairly broad-stroke direction.”
G The team—architects Pieter Malan and Jan-
Heyn Vorster and designer Peter Urry—
First Floor Second Floor Rooftop
favored a particular clearing among the
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What formed in their minds was not so
much a tree house as an abstracted archi-
tectural interpretation of a forest: a levitat-
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resembles a pinwheel, with four circles
overlapping an imperceptible square. At the
center of each circle, steel pillars in groups
of four represent tree trunks, and branch-
like beams circumscribed by steel rings
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straight lines and rectangular shapes that
become drums,” as Malan puts it.
The rooms are arranged vertically: the
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the next, and, on the top, an open-air view-
ing platform. “There are tall sliding doors at
the front that open up over both levels,”
says Malan. Vorster notes how one feels at
once embraced by the building and exposed
to the “vastness of the landscape.”
The custom bed and cabinetry are all
“I was in the fortunate position where I could
be fanciful, not conservative or
practical. I could let my imagination run riot.”
Graham Paarman, resident
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Half-round bays project
to form a balcony, a
pergola, a dining alcove,
and a bathroom. Dix
Aluminium and Glass
made of solid oak using traditional jointing doors and windows face
details. The focus on natural materials four reflection ponds
(opposite). Graham
:D42CC:65E9C@F89:?E967FC?:EFC6Nj k> can also enjoy the view
a fan of warm materials and textures— from his room (below
wood, stone, and leather,” says Graham. and bottom). Like the
This is evident in everything from the built-in bed, night-
stands, headboard, and
marble top of the coffee tables to the brass
other custom furniture,
ƎIEFC6D2?5=2>ADE@E96=62E96CW4=25 the staircase leading to
headboard. “We tried to keep the colors the open-air viewing
subdued and almost neutral, so that platform was made by
Versfeld. The Lektor
you’re really more aware of what is going
desk lamps are by Rubn.
on outside the house,” says Malan.
For Graham, that’s the secret of the cab-
in’s success. “The architecture makes quite
a singular statement,” he says, but that’s
not what he loves most about it. “Living
here allows me to connect with nature in
a very intimate manner,” he says. “You can
see the fantastic night skies and the squir-
rels in the trees. You can hear the birds.” He
pauses before adding, “It restores a sense
of balance. It’s just a very special space.”
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A tight pattern of slate

cladding complements
a wild carpet of native
grasses outside an East
Hampton residence by
Paul Masi of Bates Masi
+ Architects. The home,
sited to capture the
breeze, was constructed
for a family of wind-
sports enthusiasts.

Inherit
the

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An East Hampton residence by Bates Masi
is situated to harness the elements.
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Laura Mauk Christopher Sturman
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Sliding walls of glass by Arcadia are
situated throughout (above). Great
attention was given to the material
details, including the steel plates
on the soffit beams (below). In the
dining area, a custom table by inte-
rior designer Elizabeth Bolognino
is surrounded by Spoleto chairs by
Knoll (opposite).
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Not everyone goes to the Hamptons for
the social scene. Some people still head to
the East End of Long Island to engage with
the natural environment, a seascape where
the Atlantic Ocean meets expanses of pris-
tine beach studded with tall grasses, rustic
picket fences, and shingle-clad homes.
George and Catherine, Manhattanites with
a family that loves water sports, are some of
those people. So when they decided to build
the escape they had always imagined near
one of the best spots for wind sports in the
area, they called Paul Masi, of East
Hampton-based Bates Masi + Architects.
“I’m a surfer,” Masi says. “I understand
that for these clients, being in the
Hamptons is not about networking. They
get up early and they’re on a board. The
wind is an important factor in their lives
and that plays into the architecture.” In
fact, the low glass structure that he created
enables the family—George, Catherine, and
their son and daughter—to sense when
swells are coming. “I designed the house as
a barometer for the wind,” Masi says.
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unexpectedly found themselves standing at
the threshold of his Amagansett residence.
“We’d been coming to the Hamptons for
more than twenty years and were looking
to buy a bigger home,” Catherine says. “We
drove by a modern house that was just
being completed. We liked it so much we
knocked on the door. Paul answered
and told us it was his house—and he was
the architect. We knew then that he
was the right person to design our home.”
Masi, who earned his master’s of archi-
tecture degree from the Graduate School of
Design at Harvard and worked at Richard
Meier & Partners before starting his own
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piece of dynamic architecture that goes
beyond referencing its surroundings and
actually works in tandem with the wind,
water, and sunlight, so their effects become
greater in and around the house.
The home is sited on a rectangular lot
that runs west to east, the direction of the
prevailing wind. The architect carved out
a narrow swath of the wooded site and ori-
ented the H-shaped house along the same
west-east axis. “The idea was to create this
tunnel where the wind would come down
through the clearing, over the swimming
pool and into both wings of the house from
the west,” says Masi, who employed glass
walls that slide open to admit the breeze.
“When the wind really starts to get up, they
feel it and know it’s time to get out on
the water.” The building’s form, with rough-
sawn plywood and slate shingle exterior
siding to offset the expanses of glass, har-
nesses the wind, while the structural
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“I designed the house as a barometer
for the wind.” Paul Masi, architect
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Masi used the same gray slate for the
exterior and the fire surround, which
boasts a custom wood inset by
K. Romeo Inc. (opposite). The living
room also features a custom area rug by
SandH Rugs, a Charles sofa by B&B
Italia, a pair of PK22 leather chairs by
Poul Kjærholm from Fritz Hansen, and
an Obi coffee table and tray by Lumifer.
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“When the wind really starts up, they can

feel it and they know it’s time to get out on
the water.” Pau l M a s i

“I really wanted to explore the other plantings for their ability to

potential of the property, because
the original house was probably
using one-tenth of its capacity,”
says Masi, who also conceived the
landscape and lighting design.
He selected native grasses and
move with the wind. In the kitchen
(opposite, top), bar chairs by Mark
Albrecht Studio complement the
white-oak cabinetry and stainless
steel countertops fabricated by
D. Reis Furniture.

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elements direct it through the rooms. staying true to the home’s modern sensi- kitchen cabinetry, and the built-in dress-
“It’s an H-plan. The U-shaped parts of bility, Masi employed gray slate shingle ers and desks in the bedrooms. Catherine,
the H on the top and the bottom grab the cladding in a horizontal format. The sleek with the help of interior designer
breeze,” Masi explains. Exposed glue- and textured pattern of rectangles covers Elizabeth Bolognino, brought in additional
laminated timber beams also run west the base of the western wing, the front modern furniture pieces with simple sil-
to east along the white-oak ceiling and facade’s substantial chimney volume, and houettes that don’t compete with the
function as ventilation pathways. To E96=@HH2==DE92EC6E2:?E96C6Ə64E:?82?5 wooded landscape.
employ beams with dramatic length, Masi swimming pools. The architect used slate “Like a sail or a kite, the house is some-
broke each of them toward their center D9:?8=6D@?E96:?E6C:@COE@@O27ƎI:?8E96> thing light and delicate on the surface
and attached thin metal splice plates E@E96=:G:?8C@@>ƎC6DFCC@F?5N62=D@ @7E96=2?5Ol$2D:D2JDNj EkD2C6Ə64E:@?@7
2EE963C62<OH96C6=:89EƎIEFC6D2C6?@HN continued the materiality of the white oak what this family loves to do and why they
“The beams hold up the roof but they @?E96:?D:56OFD:?8:E7@CE96Ə@@CDOE96 come here.”
also help circulate wind that’s captured
by the house’s deep overhangs,” he says.
The residence’s two-part layout sepa-
rates public from private spaces: The
kitchen, dining, and living areas are
located in the northern wing, and the fam-
ily’s bedrooms and bathrooms are in the
southern. A glass-enclosed walkway
bridges the two sections and offers access
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into an alcove. “As the sun rotates around
the house, it bounces off the rippled sur-
face of the water and projects the charac-
ter of the wind onto the ceilings of
adjacent spaces,” Masi says. The architect
also planted native grasses, lavender, and
mint on the windward side of the struc-
ture so the breeze picks up their scents
and carries them through the house.
To pay tribute to the traditional archi-
tectural vocabulary of the Hamptons while

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A Garage
B Laundry
C Closet N O
D Powder Room
E Bathroom
F Bedroom
G Play Room
H Kitchen
I Dining Area M J
J Living Area
K Breezeway O I
L Master Bedroom
M Reflecting Pool
N Pool
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By scouring shops, sales, that same work ethic to a entrance. The door, still
and auctions, George 1959 home in Wilmington, with its Space Age knobs,
Marrone amassed a giant Delaware, which they is painted Flaming Torch
trove of postwar furni- patched up over two years. by Behr. The brass wall-
ture. He and his partner, The couple’s bulldogs hanging above the landing
Michael Nocera, applied stand guard at the flagstone is by C. Jeré.

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with

the

hounds
Midcentury completists score the ultimate catch:
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Georgina Gustin Stephen Kent Johnson Peter Oumanski

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The residents added quartz countertop in the head of a Design Within
double-glaze windows, kitchen (below). Mostly Reach table. The armless
low-VOC paints, and they restored original ele- Series 7 chairs are by
Energy Star appliances, ments, like the buffet and Arne Jacobsen; the third
calling on help just once, the staircase (opposite). pair are Juliana chairs by
to install the Cambria Cherner chairs sit at the Aristeu Pires.

George Marrone was helping a friend

look at houses when he stumbled upon a
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The Chair Man Is In

The credo “buyer beware” is doubly true in
the vintage market, where figuring out whether
a cast-off piece of furniture belongs in a museum
or a dumpster takes a trained eye. We asked
veteran L.A. dealer Sam Kaufman to share the
details that he looks for when buying some of the
prized items seen in the Marrone-Nocera house.
Sam Kaufman Gallery, samkaufman.com

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The house is like an anthol-
ogy of modern design,
spread out across 4,300
square feet. In the formal
living room alone, there’s
a Japan chair by Finn Juhl, a
Hang-It-All rack by Charles
and Ray Eames, a Scissor
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chair by Pierre Jeanneret,
a Wiggle stool by Frank
Gehry, and an Akari lamp
by Isamu Noguchi. George
began his collection in the
1990s with a pair of Paul
McCobb stools, which sit
near the fireplace.
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Illuminated by track light-
ing, a teak wall unit by
Poul Cadovius showcases
pottery by Eva Zeisel and
Paul McCobb, among oth-
ers (opposite). The desk
George uses the word “luck” often when
he describes how he’s amassed his
enviable lineup, but he admits that a little
bit of endurance helps.
DWELL MAY/ J U N E 2017
seat is a T chair by William
Katavolos, Ross Littell, and
Douglas Kelley; the Womb
chair is by Eero Saarinen
for Knoll. Bulldogs Sasha
and Sophie rest on a Mies
dwellings
van der Rohe daybed in the sitcom’s midcentury aesthetic, with
the lower den (below). lots of built-ins and lofty spaces. “This is
The Capelli stool by Carol
like my grown-up Brady Bunch house.”
Catalano and the rocker
by Adrian Pearsall are At 4,300 square feet, the residence is
reserved for their owners. also a gallery for his personal, quirky col-
lection of midcentury furniture, which
he’s gathered over 20 years, picking
through estate sales and learning to navi-
gate online auctions. George uses the word
“luck” often when he describes how he’s
amassed his enviable lineup, but admits
that a little bit of endurance helps. “I love
the hunt,” he says.
He started collecting in the 1990s, just
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were two Paul McCobb Planner Group
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$50. “I didn’t even know who Paul McCobb
was,” he says. But after years of plying auc-
tions and estate sales, he now owns a list
of classics, some bought at prices that
would make any design lover insanely jeal-
ous: an original Warren Platner armchair,
spotted at an estate sale, for $500; a Finn
Juhl Japan chair, purchased at auction for
$1,250; a rosewood Mies van der Rohe
Barcelona daybed, also bought at auction
Womb Chair
Detail: T h e A r m s
Designer: E e r o S a a r i n e n
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“Fiberglass was a technical byprod-
uct of World War II that promised
a variety of civilian applications,
from suitcases to sports cars. The
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Richard Schultz is paired
with a Platner armchair
(above). These classics
mingle with newer items,
such as a Desmond room
divider by Jonathan Adler
and a sofa by Mitchell Gold
+ Bob Williams. A sunburst
mirror, which George
bought on eBay, pops
against patterned Antonina
Vella wallpaper in the
guest bedroom (opposite).
The lamp is vintage.

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Building smarter is at the heart of every-
thing architects Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and
Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir do. Whether
they’re testing the limits of indoor/outdoor
living or developing a prefabricated wall
system that they hope will make traditional
wood framing a thing of the past, the
founders of the Santa Monica design studio
Minarc are consumed with making struc-
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It was just that kind of innovation that
led Jaclyn Lieber and her husband, Jay, to
hire the Iceland-born duo. The Liebers
had purchased a two-bedroom, one-bath
teardown in Culver City, California, and
were intrigued by prefab’s promise—from
the streamlined construction process to the
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chance to design a house they could actually
afford. “We weren’t planning to build,”
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After walking the 6,100-square-foot
property, the architects took time to get
to know the couple and how they wanted
to live. Topping their wish list was a house
with three bedrooms, lots of glass, and
ample places where they and their chil-
dren—Lucy, 15, and Leo, 13—could hang
out together.
There was no question how the house
would be constructed. In 2007, eight years
after they formed Minarc, Thorsteinsson
and Ingjaldsdóttir launched mnmMOD,
a customizable building system of
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Jay and Jaclyn Lieber worked with
Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir and Tryggvi
Thorsteinsson of Minarc to design a
house using the architects’ mnmMOD
panels, which can be assembled with
a screw gun. The core of the home
was kept open to maximize natural
light. Clerestory windows, walnut
cabinetry, and concrete floors define
the living room (opposite, top),
which features a sectional by Jessica
McClendon of Glamour Nest, who
consulted on the furnishings, a Nesta
rug from Design Within Reach, a
Moooi Random Light from YLighting,
and Hecks ottomans from Blu Dot.
In the kitchen (opposite, bottom),
a blue glass backsplash evokes the
architects’ native Iceland. The
Bend Goods stools are from YLiving.
Minarc’s GRASSsit bar stools,
topped with synthetic turf recycled
from football fields, sit near the
barbecue (below).

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ERLA DÖGG INGJALDSDÓTTIR, ARCHITECT

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ļÇÓ ĭÓƙŇ ììŇſÇĚƙŬź JAY LIEBER, RESIDENT
Silestone counters, walnut cabine-
try, and Refin floor tiles accent the
master bathroom. The Axor Uno fau-
cets are from Hansgrohe, the Alinea
vanity light is from Aamsco, and the
shower head is by Jaclo (above).
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prefabricated panels that minimizes
energy consumption and dramatically
reduces a home’s carbon footprint. A blend
of 30 percent recycled steel and cradle-
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the components are all manufactured
locally. Once on-site, they can be assembled
using only a screw gun.
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but with totally different materials,”
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Thorsteinsson, “We’re big believers in
architecture. Early in our practice, we saw
people doing the same things over and over
again. We asked ourselves what would
happen if you created standardized panels
and allowed people to organize them dif-
ferently. You’re using mass production, but
every house doesn’t have to be the same.”
For Jay and Jaclyn, the team created
a two-story residence built around a core
consisting of a double-height living room,
Built-in storage keeps things orga-
nized in Leo’s bedroom, which con-
tains an Ella bed from Room & Board
and an Inmod duvet (above right).
A Structures S7 lamp from Ameico
lights the master bedroom (right).
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Working with contractor Mike Stayer
of Core Construction, the architects
created an indoor/outdoor environ-
ment for the family. The kids hang
out while Jaclyn helms the grill from
Barbeques Galore (below). The Eos
120
Collection dining set is from Design
Within Reach. An Element coffee
table from CB2 occupies the cov-
ered patio. The second-floor niche,
which is lined in Osborne & Little
fabric (right), offers a quiet getaway.
a dining area, and a kitchen. Glass walls
on the rear facade open up the house to the
backyard, which has a swimming pool,
several eating areas, and a basketball court.
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appears to be suspended by slender steel
rods leads to the bedrooms. “The second
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sizes. “When guests come in, they don’t
feel like they should go up the stairs.”
Rather than conceal it inside the walls as
framing, wood is displayed judiciously.
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inside. “It’s not that we’re against wood,”
says Thorsteinsson. “In Scandinavia, we are
woodworkers. But we’re against using wood
for framing and things you never see.”
Though they’ve lived in the U.S. for
more than a decade, the architects have
also completed design projects in their
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Adventure Hotel, which rises from an
otherworldly Icelandic landscape of lava
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Glaciers and volcanoes may not be part

of the scenery in Culver City, but there are
nods to such natural formations neverthe-
less—panels of blue glass in the kitchen,
actual lava rocks on the roof, a horizontal
cutout on the front facade that looks like
an abstracted waterfall.
“What I love about Erla and Tryggvi’s
choices is the simplicity of the materials,”
says Jaclyn. “They believe in art, and they
see their homes as art pieces. Our home is
like a totally functional piece of art.”

Walnut House N

ARCHITECT Minarc
LOCATION Culver City, California

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First Floor

A Master Bedroom G Bathroom M Entrance

B Balcony H Covered Patio N Garage
C Master Bathroom I Kitchen O Storage
D Walk-in Closet J Dining Area P Mud Room
E Laundry K Media Room Q Living Area
F Bedroom L Office

ŹhĔÓĔŇƩƆÓƆǘÓļŇſķ ĭĭǞÇŇ ſÓƆķ ĭĭÓſƩƙǗĚƆƩ ĭĭǞ

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TRYGGVI THORSTEINSSON, ARCHITECT

The architects used wood sparingly
for maximum effect, like the cedar
siding on the front and back exteri-
ors. The main facade offers
a glimpse through the house to the
backyard, which was made larger
by placing the garage closer to the
street. “We hosted a concert and had
people sitting inside and in front of
the pool,” says Jaclyn. “The house
completely lends itself to entertain-
ing small and large groups alike.”

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“We looked at so many colonials and
couldn’t imagine what we’d do with
all the tiny rooms,” says Dianne
Bruning, who with her husband,
David Owen, enlisted architect Lou
Balodemas to update a 1968 home
outside of Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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for such quintessential city life, the couple
felt it was time to give their two young
children, Matilda and Maxim, more space
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So they packed their belongings and
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town within Chevy Chase, it immediately

felt like home. “We drove around, and
there was one street with these sidesplits
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an enclave with all its midcentury charm
intact. David was hooked, too. “Like a
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explains. “So when we came here, we
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and the metro. It turns out there is
life after Manhattan.”
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raised 1968 ranch house previously owned
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updates over the years—went up for sale,
Dianne and David jumped on it. And archi-
tect Lou Balodemas jumped with them.
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“ The realtor staged it—painted and

freshened it up—but it was still dark inside
and the corridor was tight. It was not
that appealing.” LOU BALODEMAS, ARCHITECT

In the renovated kitchen space,

(above), Dianne chose quartz coun-
ters in Blizzard by Caesarstone.
The dining area (above right) boasts
circa-1955 Friso Kramer chairs.

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case of a builder who put something
up in D.C. catering to a more tradi-
tional market,” explains Balodemas.
“He framed the ceilings down to
make them symmetrical. It would’ve
been weird at that time to have the
rooms oddly shaped. People were
way too timid back then.” The rear
terrace features new pavers from
Pennsylvania Blue Slate and Crate
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Inside his San Francisco living
room, Max Heinritz kicks back on a
Söderhamn sectional from IKEA.
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“In Tokyo, everything is space-
efficient, nothing is wasted,” he says.
“I’m sort of going for that, too.”
TEXT BY PHOTOS BY
Deborah Bishop Brian Flaherty
Max Heinritz was born 28 years after
the publication of Jane Jacobs’s The Death
and Life of Great American Cities, but his
embrace of urbanism—with all its chaos—
takes a page from her playbook.
Max’s modestly scaled loft, for which he
designed and made many of the furnish-
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San Francisco’s downtown. Just outside
the front door awaits a dizzying array
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including Twitter’s, as well as a robust
population of street denizens.
For Max, who left his job as a Google
engineer late last year in order to work
more independently on early-stage soft-
ware projects, the location is perfect:
“I spent a long time on that shuttle to
Mountain View, and it convinced me that
being in a vehicle isn’t an optimal way to
experience life. To me what’s most impor-
tant are interesting work and interesting
people—and here I’m close to both.”
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get, Max set about transforming it into
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from which to engage with the city at
large. And although he hadn’t been much
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being the son of a retired carpenter, who
lent some advice), Max was emboldened
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Max devised a movable plywood
beam that holds a trio of pendant
lamps to swing down as needed.
A wood piece covered in chalkboard
paint hides the electrical panel.
“Slate was too expensive,” he says.
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when he’d used a sewing machine to whip
up a furry coat for Burning Man. “It made
me realize that if I want something, I can
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The public area, a combination living-
dining-screening room, has an exposed
brick wall that lends it the feeling of a
SoHo loft. “It’s one of my favorite things
about the place,” says Max, whose
Circular mirrors adhere to the inner
walls of a skylight above the dining
area, bouncing light and bringing
the room yet more illumination.
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boutique hotel, industrial vibes, and the
movie Avatar (represented by the profu-
sion of hanging plants). In order to create
an intimate dining area without blocking
the path between projector and screen on
movie nights, Max devised an overhead
light using a pine beam and three IKEA
pendants that cantilever over the table
and are raised and lowered by a pulley.
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For his bedroom, Max designed a
custom headboard insulated with
several layers of cotton and uphol-
stery fabric to reduce sound.
The kitchen, located behind the
stairs and underneath Max’s
bedroom, is all electric, with two
burners, a rice cooker, a slow
134
The custom overhead light is a pine
box covered in linen, which diffuses
the LEDs inside. A gray linen curtain
conceals his tools.
Even cord management takes a novel
turn. Max concealed the wiring for his
surround-sound system in painted black
PVC pipes that blend in with existing
sprinkler pipes. The wires emerge on the
wall as artistic outlines of California and
the Transamerica building, while power
outlets nestle behind black fabric dots.
Two of Max’s early interventions were
replacing the ladder leading to his loft
bedroom with a staircase and adding a slid-
ing barn door at the top. He made the
tabletop for his standing desk from a slab
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sound-dampening headboard from insula-
tion panels, with a layer of yoga mat to
absorb vibrations.
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neither spartan nor cramped, thanks to a
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and copious vertical storage. Decorative
touches—glowing wall sconces crafted
from LED lights and linen, circles of mirror
that sparkle in the double-height skylight,
cooker, and a toaster oven. Max
added industrial shelving and
and colorful strands of thread lights found
a butcher block. “Vertical storage,” in Paris—meld utilitarianism with per-
he notes, “is very important.” sonal expression.
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MAX HEINRITZ, RESIDENT

“I wanted to have a cozy dining impede the projector,” says Max.

area, so I thought about how I He mounted the device, a ViewSonic,
could do it in a way that wouldn’t atop the living room window.

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Max likes to do screenings for A bedroom next to the living area

friends: “The first time I hosted I
showed Planet Earth. Next up is
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance,
a 1982 experimental film by Godfrey
Reggio with music by Philip Glass.”
has an overhead lantern Max made
by wrapping string soaked in glue,
water, and corn starch around an
inflated balloon, deflating it, and
then lining it with rice paper-mache.

Max’s Apartment N

DESIGNER Max Heinritz LOCATION San Francisco, California

And if Jane Jacobs is Max’s fairy god-
mother, Marie Kondo may be his spirit
First Floor
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people happy. It’s all coming together.”

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Tim McKeough Mike Schwartz

Child’s Play
Can a home that encourages creativity,
exploration, and fun still look grown-up?

Brian Littleton isn’t a dad, but he
may be the world’s coolest uncle.
His brother’s kids come over to play
in the indoor tree house, take his
model trains for a spin, or just curl
up on the Fatboy beanbag chairs.
When Brian Littleton set out to combine
two apartments into a 3,000-square-foot
triplex in Chicago’s Wicker Park in 2014,
he had some unusual ideas—an indoor
tree house, a “rocket room,” and an electric
model train track suspended from the
ceiling, to name a few. At the time, he
was both a young-at-heart bachelor and
an enthusiastic uncle with a niece and
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mile away. “I thought, why don’t we build
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SALONE DEL MOBILE
NEVER ENDS.
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FOR ANOTHER YEAR BUT BEST
PRODUCTS ARE STILL ON SHOW
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Division Street Triplex N

ARCHITECT Perimeter Architects

DESIGNER Studio Gild
LOCATION Chicago, Illinois

Rooftop
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digital marketing company. excited to be playful, but our goal was to A Rooftop Theater/ H Master Bedroom
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like a funhouse. So he tasked Studio Gild off as a joke.” B Elevator K Bathroom
and Perimeter Architects with creating To create the tree house, Studio C Entrance L Theater/Lounge
brilliant play spaces while also making the :=5OH@C<:?8H:E9:82?6@?DECF4E:@?O D Kitchen M Indoor Tree
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rocket ship (above), the kids tinker

with a dashboard of dials, levers,
and knobs assembled by artist
Christophe Gauspohl. John Issa of
Perimeter Architects oversaw the
creation of the rope room (right).
“It posed tons of challenges,” he
recalls. “Designing with a material
that has slack is more math than
I care to tackle.”

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An electric train set from

Chicagoland Hobby travels an ele-
vated track designed by Studio Gild.
The 35-foot loop passes through
the indoor tree house and around
the theater room. A Serge Mouille
Two-Arm sconce is surrounded by
graphic Mylar wallpaper.

“We were excited to be playful,

but our goal was to keep it sophisticated
so it didn’t come off as a joke.”
JENNIE BISHOP, DESIGNER

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Littell, and Douglas
Kelley, ceramics by Eva
Zeisel and Paul McCobb,
and teak wall unit by
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109 Tibetan rug from
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Mies van der Rohe,
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Bottoms Up
The line between art and architecture can get blurry. But art and
ecology? Usually clearer. Artist Olafur Eliasson and landscape
architect Günther Vogt upset the normal balance between man-
made and natural with the site-specific installation Your Glacial
Expectations. In 2012, the duo laid pool-like mirrors in a field
outside the headquarters of textile manufacturer Kvadrat, turn-
ing the rolling grasslands of Ebeltoft, Denmark, into a canvas for
the changing sky. On May 9, a new hardcover book named
after the artwork, with photos and essays about its dreamy envi-
ronment, will arrive in the United States via Thames & Hudson.

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