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14 Community Our special focus this issue is on kitchens and baths, the rooms Gabrielle Bullock, president-
that have perhaps the greatest potential for either spectacular elect of the International Interior
results or costly mistakes. We’re here to help, with designer Design Association, talks about
advice, inspirational photos, and a slew of products in two of-the- her experience as head of diver-
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social media is changing the way we design and use our kitchens. inform her new role at the IIDA.
TEXT BY Georgina Gustin
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Architect Jim Cutler’s Japanese ture Continuous Arm Chair. house in upper Manhattan— TEXT BY Winifred Bird
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I hollered “yes!” in the middle of the article
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Clockwise from below:
Parallelogram House,
in Winnipeg, home
of the Ploegman family;
designer Samantha Mink’s
“Sparrow” house, in
Culver City; and designer
Peter Kostelov’s
Manhattan apartment.
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FROM DWELL.COM
PHOTOS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: KAMIL BIALOUS; MICHAEL SCHMIDT; MATTHEW WILLIAMS
I remember [“Sparrow”] house.
I wanted it, even put in an offer,
though I wasn’t sure what I would
do with it. It was very ordinary, but
I could see it had potential. I got
outbid. I have to say, Samantha
did a great job! —Warren Bowman
Interesting approach [in the

I just wanted to send you this note Thank you for your Editor’s Letter I was disappointed to see six Kostelov residence]—especially
of appreciation for the great story in the November/December pages in the November/Decem- the use of plywood, and thinking
and photos of our home in the issue. We are embarking on a ber issue dedicated to an article of the entire space as a 3D inter-
November/December issue new build that is somewhat about blacksmithing [“Forging secting puzzle, with volumes of
[“Know Your Angles”]. Also, the daunting. It is our fourth home Ahead”]. I would hope that you’d built furniture being able to slide
theme of Visionary Design in the build, but this time it is a multi- use those pages for articles more into empty spaces when not in
Editor’s Letter spoke directly to generational home that includes relevant to modern living and use. Very innovative. —Gayle Cole
me: “Others may not like your an attached unit for my parents. design. —Ernest Cunningham [The Kostelov apartment] is fantas-
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tic! I like the brick wall to add tex-
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ture and a darker color, and so
them. It’s for you.” I found myself ensure that it is comforting to ture blacksmith Japheth Howard smart to move the living space to
thinking and saying this many my aging parents. I am excited because his work reveals the care where the natural light comes in.
times during the process and after about the project, but at times and craftsmanship that go into
—Lisa C.
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on exhibit in Seoul, a marble The project, COS’s first in Asia,
enters an elaborate circuit every has universal appeal, says cre-
five seconds, then travels around ative director Karin Gustafsson:
the room before vanishing into “It brings back childhood mem-
the floor and reappearing in a sea ories of marble runs.”
As glass marbles and reintroduce

glide along the them at will, inject-
Roll Model four separate

tracks of Loop—
the third and
ing a bit of ran-
domness into the
clockwork-like
latest project by proceedings. And
Snarkitecture and COS bring audiences into the Snarkitecture for Loop had a way
clothing brand of influencing its
loop with a sculpture that channels one of COS—the mechan- audience right
the most unpredictable objects there is: the sphere. ics seem so simple. back. Like falling
Nothing but kinetic rain, the gentle
energy propels trickle of marbles
the balls through reaching the end
the periwinkle- of the line hushed
tinged circuits, onlookers, creating
some 1,300 feet an atmosphere
of metal rails that that was both med-
were hung from itative and tense.
the ceiling of the As Snarkitecture
white-box Gana partner Alex
Art Center in Seoul, Mustonen put it,
South Korea. But “Architecture was
what really powers pouring out of
the experience the walls in an
is human interac- uncontrolled way,
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dwell asks
What drives you crazy about your

kitchen or bathroom?
Forget about serious (and seriously expensive) issues like leaks.
When it comes to the rooms you rely on most, even an awkwardly placed
shelf can be the bane of your existence. We asked readers
to tell us the first thing they’d change about their kitchen or bath.
CONTRIBUTOR’S The amber color of

CORNER my cabinets already
“Like everyone else, feels so dated.
I love nothing more I don’t mind the cost-
effective granite, but
than swooning over
combined with the
pictures of roomy cabinet color and its
spa-like baths,” says propensity to show
design writer and stains, I’m constantly
lecturer Dora Vanette, fighting a losing
who spearheaded the battle [to make my]
Kitchen and Bath kitchen feel like a
special for this issue. room I enjoy being in.
“But in my railroad Josh Courville
apartment in New
York, the biggest
COMMUNITY
issue is the bathroom

is too small to even
house a sink.”
Fortunately, the My husband and I
were working on our
situation isn’t
first home renovation
permanent, she says:
together: a complete
“We’re moving soon.” overhaul, top to bot-
tom, including a
kitchen and three full
baths. We sourced
our tile carefully and
found some amazing
Italian porcelain at a
great price. Our con-
tractor said his son
would lay all the tile,
and we trusted him.
Lesson: never, never
sign off on ANY work
(or pay for it) unless
it’s completed to your
satisfaction. We came
back to the house a
few days later to see
The layout. Countertops cut the room in huge blobs of dried
half and the low-hanging dark cabinets make grout everywhere,
which, by then, took
us feel trapped. We’re prisoners in our forever to remove
using muriatic acid
ILLUSTRATION: RAYMOND BIESINGER
own kitchen. Send help!! Richard Shanks and a TON of extra

labor on our part.
The contractor
When we did our The 36-inch is just a My worst mistake board that was a wouldn’t return to
kitchen, we didn’t 24-inch with a wider was choosing vinyl graphic nightmare. clean it up, as he was
want to see the faceplate and door, flooring for a kitchen It drew your eyes to on to another job.
microwave, so we so we lost quite a bit based on a small it from every corner. Beautiful tile looks
got a 36-inch drawer of storage space in sample. The colors No amount of throw beautiful only if it’s
unit and put it in the the island. worked, but I created rugs solved that one. installed properly.
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houses we love
Cabin Cubism
A cliffside home on Washington’s San Juan Island
echoes its surroundings.
TEXT BY Allegra Preuss PHOTOS BY Eirik Johnson
Bonnie and Paul Bunning’s yards (below). The staggered

3,600-square-foot home is rectangular panes, also by
composed of four stacked Dynamic Windows, reference
volumes covered in cedar and the home’s multilevel con-
cypress (right). Lift-slide figuration. The door and win-
doors by Dynamic Windows dow frames are painted Tasty
allow easy access to planted Apple, Perennial, and Herb
rooftops that serve as small Garden by Benjamin Moore.
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For most of the 40-odd years that Paul Prentiss soon convinced them that to really
and Bonnie Bunning visited San Juan take advantage of the site, they needed to
Island, they stayed in a ramshackle cabin start fresh. “I could create something where
on a rock-strewn, moss-covered hill the different parts of the house all celebrated
overlooking the Salish Sea. After they the different views they had previously expe-
retired, the couple decided it was time rienced in one single spot, enlarging and
to add modern amenities like running diversifying their experience,” says Prentiss.
water to their rugged getaway, so they From the road, the new house that he and
hired Seattle-based Prentiss + Balance + project architect Dan Wickline designed,
Wickline Architects to renovate. But Geoff located next door to the still-existing old one,

“Locating the house in the ravine and
stepping the building up the hill reduced
the need for excavation while still
nesting the house into its surroundings.” The Bunnings found the
boulder that marks the
Dan Wickline, architect entryway (above, left) dur-
ing the home’s excavation.
Fabricated by Mancuso
Construction, the ash
kitchen cabinets (above)
were cut across the grain
and installed so that the
pattern matches continu-
ously from unit to unit.
Local grasses and flowers,
including camas, wild
strawberry, and clover,
cover four terraces that
camouflage the home
within the landscape (left).
appears as a one-story structure poking its which provide thermal and sound insula-
head out from behind the slope. From the tion. Paul, an artist and former writer,
seaward side, however, the house reveals chose a split-in-half boulder, found during
itself as four rectangular volumes cascad- excavation, to grace the entryway.
ing down the cliffside. Limited furnishings and materials,
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each blanketed with a green roof that’s ing, maintain the interior’s focus on
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“ I love minimal kitchens and

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open shelving. My go-to
material is steel and I always
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collection of white dishes, but
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ing tub. Bathrooms should
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bathroom—I usually place
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JEFF JORDAN ARCHITECTS
IRVINGTON, NEW YORK
Architect Jeff Jordan typically

prefers to limit the materials in his
kitchens to a handful of compatible
finishes and almost never uses more
than two types of wood. However,
in renovating a midcentury home in
a suburb north of New York City,
he decided to integrate oak, cypress,
walnut, pine, and cedar in the same
space, giving the kitchen a rich yet
balanced texture.
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While renovating a 1980s kitchen

in Israel, architecture studio This
is IT employed a selection of cool,
neutral materials to provide the
residents with some relief from the
strong Mediterranean summer sun.
Gray terrazzo, black granite, con-
crete, steel, and glass predominate,
while brass details are interspersed
sparingly throughout the home to
create a running thread.
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ART AND LIGHT
ANDREW MIKHAEL ARCHITECT
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
A common phenomenon in big

city apartments is having a front
door that opens right into the
kitchen, making the cooking area
the default spot for guests to con-
gregate at parties. Architect Andrew
Mikhael embraced the kitchen-
as-entertaining-hub concept with
multicolor LED lights, which allow
his Manhattan clients to change the
room’s mood with one click.
THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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SVK INTERIOR DESIGN
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA TALKS ABOUT HOW SOCIAL HOW HAVE THE LOOK AND PURPOSE OF THE
KITCHEN EVOLVED IN RECENT YEARS?
In a San Francisco kitchen conceived MEDIA HAS RESHAPED There is no longer just one look for a kitchen. People
PHOTOS: GREGORY MAKA (1), MATAN KATZ (2),
TH E MAR KE T—AN D MAD E

BRAD DICKSON (3), MICHELE LEE WILSON (4)
by SVK Interior Design, rich elm are increasingly using this space to showcase their
accents are paired with matte-white personality. Since it’s become common to share your
laminate cabinets, gray-veined EVERYON E THIN K THEY interiors on social media, most people don’t want
Caesarstone countertops, and show- CAN BE A CHEF. to have the same white cabinets and marble counter-
stopping white Heath tile with dark tops as everyone else.
grout. The designers decided to
RACHELLE LOUIS HOW ELSE HAS SOCIAL MEDIA SHAKEN
go hardware-free by installing push-
Creative Director, AJ Madison THINGS UP?
to-release mechanisms on all the Similar to the way websites such as Travelocity
cabinet doors and drawers, making have made people want to travel more, Tastemade
the materials the focal point. and Buzzfeed’s Tasty are inspiring us to cook more.
When you see dishes presented in such a format you
begin to think, “I can do this too.” The next thing
you know, you’re trying to make a pumpkin chili
bowl out of a cutout pumpkin. More broadly, social
media makes different hobbies feel more accessible.

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CHEVRON HOUSE
ANDY MARTIN ARCHITECTURE
LONDON, ENGLAND
Through the dramatic use of
color, London studio Andy Martin
Architecture revived a brick Edwardian
house for a contemporary art col-
lector. To keep the eye from being
overwhelmed, the firm left the walls
a neutral off-white while highlighting
key details like built-ins with bold
hues. The bathroom, accented in lime
green, baby blue, and lemon yellow,
is a highlight.
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STANHOPE GARDENS
CARL TURNER ARCHITECTS
LONDON, ENGLAND
In designing the bathroom of a West

London home, architect Robert
Guest of Carl Turner Architects cov-
ered the floor and walls in square tiles
to give the space a graphic quality,
almost like grid paper. “In some ways,
3 4 it feels like an inhabited drawing,”
Guest says. The basin top is hard-
wearing concrete. A small Glo Ball
light provides a delicate counterpoint
to the tough surfaces.
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SAINT-LAURENT APARTMENT
ATELIER BARDA
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
When a fashion company asked

Atelier Barda to transform a lofty,
1,150-square-foot apartment in
Montreal’s up-and-coming Mile
End district into a place to host
out-of-town clients, the designers
responded with a gutsy black-and-
white scheme. In the bathroom,
a marble countertop and white-
washed brick walls are paired with
sleek ebony taps.
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NORRIS HOUSE
DAVEY MCEATHRON ARCHITECTURE
AUSTIN, TEXAS
To introduce morning light into a
master bathroom in Austin, architect
Davey McEathron had to punch
a skylight through the vaulted ceiling
because the exterior walls face south
and west. For the clients’ large dog,
he incorporated a separate washing
station in the shower. The cabinets
are painted Indigo by Sherwin Williams
It makes people want to try more things. In the that works best for each individual kitchen. Some to provide a pop of color in the oth-
past, cooking seemed like something you had to manufacturers, like BlueStar, offer different cooktop erwise white space.
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go to school for, and now you realize you just configurations that allow you to switch out the burn-
ADRIEN WILLIAMS (3), LEONID FURMANSKY (4)
need a passion for it. As a result, people are becom- ers based on what you’re cooking.
ing more aware of the appliances they are using.
Social media opens the door to wanting to learn HOW IS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY PENETRATING
more about cooking. It turns the process from THE KITCHEN?
a chore into a craft. The idea of a refrigerator talking to you still sounds
like science fiction to some people, but the same thing
SO CONSUMERS ARE BECOMING SAVVIER could have been said about our phones ten years ago.
AND MORE PROFICIENT. HOW ARE MANUFAC- A similar shift is happening with kitchen appliances.
TURERS RESPONDING? And the idea of the connected home will only con-
Because people want to cook restaurant-style food, tinue to grow. Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerator is
professional appliances are becoming more com- a good example. It features a large LCD screen where
mon in homes. A lot of brands are adapting high-end you can mirror your television, moving seamlessly
appliances to work in compact spaces or adding between watching something in your living room to
convertible zones to their products. For instance, watching it in your kitchen. You can also surf the web
column refrigeration allows people to customize and order groceries on it. You can even order Grubhub
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process TEXT BY PHOTOS BY
Lindsay J. Warner Jamie Chung
Continuous Reign: Spare, sturdy, almost

minimalist—Thos. Moser’s signature
chair distills generations of know-how.
Founded in 1972, Thos. Moser The chair that furniture maker Thomas his son Aaron. “That’s the beauty of a
belongs to a long tradition of aus- Moser, now 82, sat in every night during ?2EFC2=Ǝ?:D9N EE2<6D@?32EE=6H@F?5DO
tere New England woodworking
family dinner in New Gloucester, Maine, just like all of us.”
that stretches back to the Shakers,
the Protestant sect known for their bears witness to a lifelong passion for That dining chair—an early version
simple yet rigorously crafted furni- woodworking. “My father always carried a of what is now known as the Continuous
ture. The company uses only North tape measure in his pocket, and the spin- C>92:CYH2D+@>$@D6CkDƎCDE
American hardwoods in its work. dles of that chair are scarred from it,” says C64@8?:K23=656D:8?:?E96H@C=5@7Ǝ?6

At the workshop in Auburn, Maine,
master craftsman Warren Shaw
glues and clamps together three
pieces of cherry to make a panel that
will form the seat of a Continuous
Arm Chair. The artisans sometimes
call the piece “TMC”—Thos. Moser
Continuous—for short.
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THE CONTINUOUS ARM CHAIR
The Thos. Moser team demonstrates how to build an updated Windsor chair based on timeless principles.
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CUT AND GLUE SHAPE THE SEAT

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to form an 18-by-24-inch panel that will become the chair’s seat. By hand, this step alone would take hours.
furniture making. “The TMC was an 6>62?DE92EƎ8FC2E:G6=JY:EkD25:D- trade, help trim the seat of the Continuous
important milestone in his life as a tinctive design element—and also quite 492:CE@:EDƎ?2= e W:?49E9:4<?6DDQ2?
designer,” Aaron says, referring to the literally: Each chair bears the signature elephantine CNC milling machine sculpts
chair by its product SKU. “My father had of the principal craftsperson who worked the curve of the seat and drills holes for the
designed many things before, but in a on it, along with the date of completion. spindles. And yet: “The CNC will not make
smaller way. Before the TMC, he was a col- Of the 60 or so artisans working in the that continuous arm,” Andy says. “That
lege teacher and woodworker—he wasn’t Thos. Moser factory in Auburn, Maine, needs the eye, the hand, and the rasp.”
a designer. This was a real leap.” That was few have made as tangible a stamp on “Technology makes our lives a little
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as a communications professor at Bates and product developer Warren Shaw. 2?5Ǝ?:D9OlD2JD2C@?Oj3FEE96D@FC4:?8
College to start his furniture company. +H6?EJWƎG6J62CD28@O*92HDE2CE652EE96 of the material, the matching of the wood
The Continuous Arm Chair, with its ash company by learning how to sand prop- grain—no machine can do those things.”
legs and spindles attached to a richly col- erly. Today he shepherds each new design The Continuous Arm Chair itself—
ored American black cherry seat, takes E9C@F89G2C:@FDC@F?5D@7C6Ǝ?6>6?E all clean lines and functional beauty—has
its moniker from its signature curves: an until it’s ready for one of the six Thos. changed very little since 1977, yet its
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stretched into an alluring bend to form tomer. The bar is high: Thos. Moser inspired in part by the symmetry, econ-
the back and arms of the chair. Laminated products are guaranteed for life, so Shaw omy of form, and material, utility, and
cherry “ship’s knees”—curved supports constantly straddles the line between purity of Shaker design,” says its creator,
that attach to the bottom of the seat and production and craft. Tom Moser, nodding to the Protestant
each leg—replace the stretchers tradition- Over the past quarter century, he has group’s no-nonsense woodworking style.
ally found on Windsor chairs. “A lot of overseen the shift from mostly handmade “The TMC is a Windsor chair, but
time and attention gets paid to the bottom products to a workshop that now hums the Windsors of England don’t look any-
of the seat,” says Andy, another of Moser’s H:E9E96H9:C@7E649?@=@8JN ?5FDEC:2=WD:K6 thing like it,” says Aaron. “The silhouette
four sons. “That’s where the signature is.” planers and sanders, longtime tools of the of that chair is our brand.”

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11 knife-cut slices from the same board custom-made pneumatic gluing jig and clamped into
are laminated together with glue to make place (here by craftsman George Colby).
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then both a coarse and a fine rasp are used to create the smooths off the rasp marks, then the team uses 220-grit
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process
BUILD GLUE AND WEDGE

Starting with the longest and shortest lengths, artisan Each ash spindle and leg is glued and driven into place and
Warren Shaw taps the ash spindles into the top of the seat secured with a cherry wedge for a mechanical and adhesive
and the continuous arm with a mallet. The legs will follow. bond that will keep the spindles and legs taut and strong.
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ATTACH THE KNEES LEVEL THE LEGS

Replacing ordinary stretchers, laminated cherry A 24-inch belt sander levels the legs—the last step before
“ship’s knees” fit into a specially routed mortise in each leg. the chair is taken to the finishing department. There, warm
Once they’ve been glued, clamped, and screwed oil is sprayed on to protect the wood. Finally, wax
into the seat and legs, they’re rasped and sanded. is hand-applied and then buffed to create the finish.

process
“You can drop the chair out of a truck and it

will bounce, not break. It’s built in a way that’s
akin to a high-tension wire bridge. It achieves
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It takes nine hours to complete

a single Continuous Arm Chair,
requiring at least three people from
start to finish. At a spray booth
in the 90,000-square-foot factory,
an artisan applies oil to a chair.

interior design TEXT BY PHOTOS BY
Paul Wong Brian W. Ferry
Back in 1998, Tom Givone was an

advertising copywriter living in a tiny rent-
controlled studio in New York’s West
Village, dealing with a pain-in-the-neck
landlord who was always trying to raise
the rent. With the little bit of money he’d
saved, he decided it was time to look for
a place to buy. He ended up falling in love
with a double row of 20 identical high-
stooped wood houses, straight out of a
Victorian fairy tale, on a cobblestone cul-
de-sac called Sylvan Terrace. Located in
the Washington Heights neighborhood
of upper Manhattan, the houses—designed
in 1882 by architect Gilbert Robinson Jr.
to resemble an 18th-century mansion
nearby—are anomalies in brick-and-
concrete New York.
When the house Tom wanted fell
through, he was crushed, but he decided
to just start knocking on every door on the
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for sale,” he says. “Had I had any resources,
I could have bought half the block.”
Self-taught designer Tom Givone doors entombed in sheetrock. The

fixed up his 1882 row house in New mixed-wood floor includes cherry
York City over many years. In the with maple parquet. The Pol chair is
parlor (above), he uncovered pocket by Mark Albrecht Studio (left).
Home Schooled
While reworking one of Manhattan’s few remaining wood row houses
on his own, a copywriter develops a taste for renovations.
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6Ǝ?2==J7@F?5E96A6C764EA=246Y2 initially kept his day job in advertising, projects became more conceptually ambi-
1,500-square-foot, three-story building but by 2006 his career had morphed into tious and structurally complex, he became
that had recently been abandoned mid- something else: architectural design. something more of a conductor, bringing
renovation. “It had some electric and He had begun taking on other people’s in architects, engineers, and craftspeople
sheetrock,” Tom says. “It was like a Home renovations—everything from a Brooklyn to help execute his designs.
Depot shell that looked like an active job brownstone to a farmhouse in Sullivan C@F?5 O96Ǝ?2==J564:565E@EFC?
site—paint had hardened over and mud County (“Hope Floats,” May 2012)—while his attention to completing his own house,
was on the walls.” Tom bought the house, putting his own project on the back burner. which he’d lived in for almost 16 years.
added a sink and an old stove to make it His education was getting into these “I felt I had to get it done,” he said. Plus, the
habitable, and started teaching himself old structures and learning as he went. timing was right. “I had a good crew, I was
how to patch it up. Every day after work, He spent his spare time sketching out light- Ǝ?5:?8:?E6C6DE:?8>2E6C:2=DO2?5 H2D
the homeowner-turned-contractor would ing diagrams or picking out material sam- learning different building applications.”
begin a new project, ripping out sheetrock ples. “I was the contractor, the designer, He restored the interiors by combing
or uncovering 15-foot ceiling beams. Tom a one-man band,” he says. And as the 72:CD=:<6E96C:>Ǝ6=5Ə62>2C<6E:?
“It was like a Home Depot shell that looked like an active job site—paint had
hardened over and mud was on the walls.” TOM GIVONE, DESIGNER AND RESIDENT
On the top floor, a Cumberland upholstered in cowhide (above). a thin layer of polished concrete.
chair by Thos. Moser faces a Room The kitchen range hood (opposite, The sides of the Carrara-topped
& Board ottoman, a Twiggy lamp top) is framed in wood, wrapped island are clad in anodized alumi-
by Foscarini, and a vintage sofa with cement board, and parged with num, as are the IKEA cabinets.

Sylvan Row House N
DESIGNER Tom Givone

LOCATION New York, New York
A Family Room D Kitchen G Bathroom

B Dining Area E Parlor H Laundry
C Garden F Bedroom I Master Bedroom
A C
Ground Floor
E F
First Floor
H G
Second Floor
ILLUSTRATION: LOHNES + WRIGHT
Having little experience when he rest on a Nanimarquina rug made

moved in, Tom started by exposing of recycled bike tires (above). Some
bricks and beams. A WH Design floorboards and stair treads were
sofa and an Arper Catifa 80 chair salvaged from a farmhouse (right).
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Massachusetts for furniture and lighting, true plaster medallions for the ceilings
but mostly by salvaging building supplies in the parlor spaces; and applying anod-
from neighbors. Everything from hard- ized aluminum–faced plywood sheets—
ware to hinges to little pieces of original typically used as cladding in high-end
Ə@@C:?8H2DD4@@A65@FE@7=@42=5F>A- commercial work—for kitchen doors, cab-
sters. He even found treasure buried in his inets, and staircase and baseboard trim.
walls: a pair of eight-foot-tall wood doors Over the years, Tom has grown even
hidden in the sheetrock of the parlor level. more enchanted with his home and
Tom also did much of the work himself its charming architecture. But mostly he
and spent countless hours researching enjoys living in such an unusually quiet
ways to enhance the design—applying corner of Manhattan, on a street that time
marine epoxy mixed with sawdust and seems to have forgotten. “There is some-
A2:?E36EH66?E96Ə@@C3@2C5D=:<68C@FEO thing powerful about this place, this block,
E96?D2?5:?8E96>E@28=2DDWD>@@E9Ǝ?- and feeling this energy about this house
ish; teaming with specialists to re-create that is very old and very new.”
All 20 row houses on Sylvan Terrace

have matching yellow, brown,
and green facades, as dictated by
the Landmarks Preservation
Commission. The architectural style
was inspired by the nearby Morris-
Jumel mansion, built in 1765.
Tom bored a hole in a marble sink— fireplaces were rebuilt, including

formerly a water fountain basin at in the master bedroom (above).
a park in Philadelphia—and added The flues were relined in stainless
a Hudson Reed faucet (left). Three steel to make them operable.

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Gabrielle Bullock graduated from less than half a percent of registered

the Rhode Island School of Design architects. Bullock’s projects include
in 1984, becoming only the second the master plan for the Girl Scouts of
African American woman to earn an Greater Los Angeles’s Camp Lakota,
architecture degree from the school. in Frazier Park, California (dining hall
Even today, black women make up shown here), completed in 2016.

Bullock joined Perkins+Will in 1988 construction, and was on the team
and has been a principal since 2005. that completed a new research labo-
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Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
(above and left), which is under in Los Angeles (below) in 2010.
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A DV E R T I S M E N T
Tailor-Made For Urban Dwellers, a Pair of

Hip Austin Residences Connect To Their
Vibrant Surroundings
Edgy and functional, two homes on neighboring lots in the neighborhood as it exists now, but also to the direction it is moving
heart of Austin are punctuated by expansive windows and towards. Beyond targeting a location close to the Austin action, the
doors from Marvin. aesthetic goal was to create comfortable and generous living spaces
with an emphasis on ambient light.
In Austin’s vibrant Zilker neighborhood, architect Kristopher White
of Dick Clark + Associates was presented with a unique opportunity One of the homes, built with clear mid-century modern influences,
to design and build two residences on adjacent lots, each with its integrated versatile Marvin windows and doors to compliment
own identity but coexisting in close proximity. The most critical the clean lines and warmth of design. Chosen for their simple and
initial appeal of the project was the “Austin-centric” location. The timeless beauty, practicality, and large expanses of glass, the Marvin
Zilker neighborhood, suggests White, embodies the true spirit of products were an asset to bringing unrestricted natural light into the
Austin – it is bikeable to downtown, and walkable to Zilker park and home, as well as encouraging an indoor/outdoor living experience.
music festivals. Austin, says White, has seen a dynamic and evolving Subtle connective threads unify the two residences, and the same
urban landscape over the last several years, with a steady influx of Marvin window and door products were used for both homes.
young professionals to the city. These Austin transplants, a subset Treating the homes as if they would live there, the developers were
of whom inevitably become new home buyers, have been drawn to also attracted to the energy efficiency of the Marvin products, which
the city by increasing job opportunities in technology, long-standing they kept in consideration for the benefit of the future owners. The
cultural ties to music and art, and ability to enjoy the outdoors with design embodies the enduring creative spirit of DC+A founder Dick
ease and accessibility. Curating homes that fit into the fabric of this Clark, who recently passed away. Clark’s lasting legacy in the firm,
lively “modern lifestyle” was the goal of White’s clients and frequent says White, is “the inspiration to create spaces that people want to
collaborators, developers Steven Radke and Ryan Vinson. From the enjoy life in” – an abstract but powerful philosophy that informed
beginning, Radke and Vinson dedicated a deep personal commitment the creative process in the unique Austin residences.
to the project, adopting an “owner’s mentality” by thinking intimately
and personally about what they would value in a home if they were
to move in. They felt it was valuable to respond not only to the For more visit dwell.com/marvin-austin.
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renovation TEXT BY PHOTOS BY
Winifred Bird Pippa Drummond
Maria Ponce Berre and

Trey Berre saw through
the dated features of a
1954 ranch on Chicago’s
North Side to create a
fresh, luminous home
for themselves and their
daughters. A 14-foot-
wide opening defines
the kitchen, which archi-
tect Scott Delano, with
Nicholas Pettit, carved
out of what had been an
enclosed breezeway and
part of the garage. The
bifold window is from
NanaWall, the windows
above are by Pella, and
the faucet is by Blanco.
When attorney Trey Berre and his wife,

photographer Maria Ponce Berre, began
searching the Chicago real estate listings in
2014, they were looking for land, or at least
something to tear down. They imagined A redone Chicago ranch house
building a “forever home” that embodied
their love of modern design, particularly
from the 1950s now sports a
midcentury Palm Springs. But when Trey Palm Springs–style inverted roof.
spotted an ad for a 1954 split-level ranch on
a corner lot on the city’s North Side, that
plan went out the window. “As soon as I Desert in
the Windy City
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walked in, I knew it had good bones,” he a bit more special,” says Delano, who works
says. The shag carpet and pink bathroom 2D5:C64E@C@756D:8?2E.C:89E66C6>2
didn’t matter. Instead he saw clean lines Architects in Chicago but typically takes
and great natural light, a place where he on one private residential project a year.
could envision raising their daughters, Key changes included raising the ceiling
Fiona and Alessandra. After calling Maria in places, converting the wood-paneled rec
to get the go-ahead, he put in a bid, sight room and bar on the lower level into a mas-
unseen on her end, for the house. ter suite, and moving the kitchen into what
Over the next 19 months, the couple had been an enclosed breezeway and part
worked with architect Scott Delano to of the garage, then putting in windows that
transform the 1,990-square-foot space into fold open to create an indoor/outdoor eat-
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with midcentury-style furnishings, includ- get a season and a half to actually open
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“A lot of the decisions were about being true to the

house while updating it. We weren’t trying to make it
something it never was.” SCOTT DELANO, ARCHITECT
In the front courtyard, a raised blue- are from Room & Board. When
stone patio was built off the new contractor ABO Construction dis-
kitchen for casual meals and enter- covered that part of the original roof
taining (above). The Eames Molded needed replacing, Delano came up
Plastic Chairs are from Herman with a butterfly design that suited
Miller. The dining table and benches the home’s midcentury lines (top).

A DV E RT I S M E N T
DishDrawer™ — How a
Game-Changer Was Born
In a story that started 20 years ago at Fisher & Paykel’s
design headquarters in New Zealand, a team of
innovators invented a better way to wash dishes.
The Fisher & Paykel team was simply trying to improve a design, not reinvent
it. “We could see living patterns changing —home cooking was getting more
casual, socializing less formal,” says Mark Elmore, head of design at Fisher
& Paykel. “At the same time, the design of the kitchen was becoming more
open. There was a shift away from deep under-counter cabinets to drawers
that were beautifully engineered to slide out to you.” However, it was not
until observing real people in their own homes that the Fisher & Paykel team
changed the way they were thinking about the design.
“Our design team was standing in a kitchen talking, and we began wondering
aloud if a dishwasher could actually fit into a kitchen drawer. We realized our
design challenge was to fit with the kitchen rather than fight it,” says Elmore.
As the creative conversation progressed, the traditional idea of a hinged
dishwasher with separate interior trays was challenged. “We already live life
out of drawers, so why can’t appliances slide out at an ergonomic height too?”
Through the team’s unconventional and bold design exploration, a better way
to wash dishes was born.
“Our first prototype looked a bit like a filing cabinet,” says Elmore. From that
initial breakthrough design, Fisher & Paykel continued to refine and innovate.
“We married it with our studio’s technology and expertise, tested it, improved
it — and continue to refine it today, with the ninth generation DishDrawer
Dishwasher.” The self-contained drawer-based system includes double or
single-door models, a design that gives homeowners the flexibility to select
the best fit for their needs.
Today, the ninth generation DishDrawer Dishwasher has a sleek new internal
interface, minimal gaps for seamless integration with kitchen cabinetry, and
panel-ready options for aesthetic flexibility. Double, single, and tall drawers
are all available to meet a variety of user needs. The drawer setup, in addition
to being ergonomic with less bending needed, also saves water and power
with half loads. Easy installation, and quiet, efficient performance complete
the smart and sleek design. Looking back at the evolution of the DishDrawer
Dishwasher, Mark Elmore reflects on the innovative first idea that started it
all. “It was that first, unexpected conversation in the kitchen that helped us
innovate and find a new way to perform a basic household chore.”
renovation
repairs to the gabled roof, contractor Andy Ə@H@7?2EFC2==:89E:?E@E96365C@@>DN

Benbenek encountered an unpleasant sur- The roof work added six months to
prise: The section over the upstairs bed- the timeline and $40,000 to the budget.
rooms had to be completely replaced due to To offset some of the cost, Delano and assis-
rain damage. The team quickly realized tant architect Nicholas Pettit got creative
this was an opportunity. Delano turned the H:E9Ǝ?:D96DN@C:?DE2?46OEC25:?86IA6?-
upward-pointing V into a downward one, sive black porcelain tiles in the kitchen
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the couple had admired in Palm Springs. arranged in a pattern of various sizes
+96?6HH2==D2==@H657@CD:8?:Ǝ42?E=J lowered the cost from $19 per square foot
taller windows, which provide a greater to $2.35. “Because you’re still providing
“Features that stood out in the original space that we

were determined to keep were the large living room
corner windows and the manageable room sizes.”
TREY BERRE, RESIDENT
PHOTOS: TKTKTKTK

something compelling”—an interesting
pattern—“you don’t feel like you’ve made
a compromise,” Delano says. Ultimately,
the remodel cost $174 per square foot,
including appliances and landscaping.
The result is a simple but engaging
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truly cool that made us feel happy,”
Maria says. By updating a vintage gem
rather than building new, she, Trey, and
Delano succeeded in doing just that.
To break up the long living room, floor above the kitchen to accom-
Pettit created a walnut bookcase modate the master suite, Delano
at the entrance (opposite, top). A decided that situating it on the lower
sectional designed by the residents level, where the rec room and bar
joins a coffee table that Trey devised had been, was a better—and more
out of marble left over from a bath- affordable—choice (above). An
room floor (opposite, bottom). The Alchemy bed from CB2 is flanked
teak lounge chair by S.A. Andersen by marble-topped night stands.
& Erik Andersen and Palle Pedersen The Krisztian Mecs for Intueri Light
for Horsnaes Møbler and the Jens pendants are from Lumens. The
Risom side table are both vintage. master bathroom (below) features
The painting is by Wesley Kimler. Terrazzo tile from Terrazzio Ponce-Berre Residence N
After contemplating adding a second and American walnut cabinetry.
ARCHITECT Scott Delano
LOCATION Chicago, Illinois
A Front Porch
B Entrance
C Fireplace Nook
D Living/Dining Area
E Kitchen
G F Mudroom
G Garage
H H Courtyard
I Patio
F J Bedroom
K Bathroom
L Laundry Room
M Master Bedroom
E N Master Bathroom
I
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C B A
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K N
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outside TEXT BY PHOTOS BY
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Michael Friberg
Within and Without

A Texas interior designer expands her vision
outdoors with a water-wise garden.
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architects Yen Ong and Paul Merrill interior designer Lynn Rush’s home is highest residential rating meant he had to
of 5G Studio envisioned “a solid
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black mass within an enclosed
garden,” says Ong. A geothermal plaster walls are slowly being enveloped by used. Hocker’s solution was to plant
heat pump, solar panels, and rain- swaths of brilliant green ivy. Surrounded masses of native and drought-tolerant
water harvesting helped the project by peach stucco mansions, this LEED 8C2DD6DOEC66DO2?5Ə@H6C:?8D9CF3DOH:E9
achieve LEED Platinum status. Platinum residence on the outskirts of a cistern to collect rainwater for re-use.
Dallas is wholly different, but without Inland sea oats provide the framework
sticking out like the proverbial sore thumb. for the landscape, starting at the prop-
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into a backdrop of native plantings. ing into hardy buffalo grass. Punctuated
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creating that garden posed a challenge. evergreen, and redbud and Mexican plum
His client wanted a lush, colorful yard full trees for color, multiple layers and big

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A neighbor harvests bell peppers
in the garden (far left). Behind her
is the greenhouse, where Lynn
starts vegetables like lettuce, Swiss
chard, and tomatoes. Landscape
architect David Hocker defined the
sunken fire pit area with Cor-Ten
steel (left). Carved into the home’s
mass are what Ong calls “exterior
voids”: transition zones between the
built and the natural that are painted
white (below). The sectional and
club chairs are from Kingsley Bate;
the sliding glass door is by Western
Window Systems.
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making the landscape part of the
interior experience, with views carefully
terminating at all times in greenery.”
YEN ONG, ARCHITECT

outside
A table and chairs from Classic

Home in the Dallas Market furnish
the dining area (left). The chairs
were upholstered by Berkeley
Fabrics & Upholstery. Lynn created
the fixture overhead with hardware
from Tech Lighting. “I never turn
on the lights during the day,” she
says. “Even if it’s cloudy outside,
there’s plenty of light in here.” The
entrance to the house is marked by
a triangular awning (below). “It’s
just enough to protect the front
door,” says Merrill, “and then
it sheds water into a small garden
between the garage and the house.”
sweeps of grasses create a pastoral scene giving the impression of a perfectly cut Lynn, who designed the interiors her-
in the front garden. “It gives this idea of a Gothic wedding cake. self, spends much of her free time out-
prairie even though it’s in a suburban These openings—the largest of which is doors. Beyond the west patio, a zoysia
neighborhood,” says Hocker. 28 by 14 feet—let in streams of sunlight grass lawn offers a place to stroll, and a
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servation area across the street prompted landscape to “paint” itself onto the white spot for gathering. Three cattle troughs
the home’s architects, Yen Ong and Paul plaster walls. The atmosphere changes enjoy new life as raised fruit and vegetable
Merrill of 5G Studio, to “create an indoor with the seasons. “There’s one room that beds, home to the seedlings that get their
condition that is very easily mistaken as turns a beautiful blue-green, another start each spring and fall in the neighbor-
the outdoors . . . a complete merging of amber, from all the trees,” says Merrill. ing greenhouse. Everything is watered
exterior and interior climates,” says Ong. There’s enough natural light that Lynn 3J5C:A:CC:82E:@?@C3JH2E6CW67Ǝ4:6?E
The concept they envisioned was a black never uses her recessed LED lighting dur- sprayers, using a rainwater-harvesting
pavilion in a garden. “Into this solid black ing the day. The low demand for energy system that collects 90 percent of the
mass, we carved voids to allow for this means the 4,600-square-foot home, which roof-area rainwater into a 6,000-gallon
relationship from indoors to outdoors to is powered by a rooftop photovoltaic solar underground tank. “The goal is that,
take place,” Ong says. The “voids” are slices array and a geothermal heat pump, could after a three-year establishment period,
of white in the square black structure, eventually be net-positive. she can shut off the irrigation and

outside
just use it for supplementary watering,” “We challenged the idea that Texas
says Hocker.
While Lynn didn’t initially plan on a
is so hot you cannot have anything other
“green” home, she is pleased to have been than light-colored stucco.” YEN ONG
led down the path of sustainability. “I
wanted something that not everyone else
has,” she says. “I never like to do what any-
one else is doing, I like to step out and do
something different.”
Winnwood Residence N
ARCHITECT 5G Studio Collaborative

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Hocker Design Group
LOCATION Dallas, Texas
A Entrance F Master Bedroom K Garage

B Kitchen/Dining Area G Bedroom L Mechanical Room
C Living Area H Bathroom M Storage
D Master Closet I Patio N Laundry
E Master Bathroom J Office/Bedroom O Wet Kitchen
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Succulents spill out of planters from holly trees (top right). A sitting area
Wayfair on an outer wall (top left). (above) off the main living space
“The idea was to imitate birds fly- features chairs upholstered by
ing up to the sky,” Lynn says. The Berkeley Fabrics & Upholstery and a
east patio overlooks a line of yaupon light fixture from Lights Fantastic.

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A REIMAGINED SAN FRANCISCO VICTORIAN BURSTS WITH COLOR. R E D,
TEX T BY PHOTOS BY
LYDIA LEE JOE FLETCHER

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A perforated-metal stair-
case in Benjamin Moore’s
Flame and built-in cabi-
netry in various shades of
blue highlight Fougeron
Architecture’s bold reinven-
tion of a narrow row house in
Noe Valley for a couple and
their daughter. The redesign
added about 750 square feet
and a new ground-floor level
to the original two-bedroom
structure, built in 1901.
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Opposite, clockwise from far left: project architect Todd Aranaz,

Three shades of paint—Kensington Fougeron moved the living room
Blue, Old Blue Jeans, and Denim to the ground floor and combined
Wash, all by Benjamin Moore—cover it with the dining area and kitchen.
built-ins and delineate space; the The Stoccolma sofa and ottoman
facade’s historical details were are by Paola Navone for Baxter.
preserved and painted Gunmetal Custom cabinets by Myers Cabinetry
by Benjamin Moore; working with have Corian countertops (below).

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Seen here from the entrance level, once the living room. The custom
the sculptural stair emphasizes bunkbed, painted in Spring Rain
the home’s verticality and opens by Benjamin Moore, is by Myers
up what had been a low-ceilinged, Cabinetry. Dermot Barry was
dark interior. The daughter’s the project’s general contractor
bedroom (opposite) occupies the and architect Paul Endres
bay-windowed space that was was the structural engineer.
“YOU CAN’T TOUCH THE VICTORIAN

FACADE, SO THE STAIR DISTRIBUTES
LIGHT TO ALL THREE FLOORS
AT THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE.”
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Set on the home’s top floor and are by Paola Lenti. During the day, wall (above) that Fougeron and the anchors the dining area, while built-
featuring a deck that overlooks the a skylight illuminates the master team hung from the third floor. “It’s in cabinetry offers ample storage.
backyard, the master bedroom is bathroom (opposite, bottom). actually very complicated to make The main living area was created
clean-lined and filled with light Transforming the rear of the house the field glazing look simple and from what was once a basement
(opposite, top). The Fusion bed is is something more often found minimal,” says the architect. Piero behind the garage. Limestone floors
by Zeitraum; the purple Cove chairs in a high-rise building—a curtain Lissoni’s Metallico table for Porro inside and out unify the living spaces.

Prentis Hale of SHED Architecture
& Design reimagined a kit home
in Tiburon, California, that was
erected in 1991. The remodel,
commissioned by Darla Anderson
and Kori Rae, contains a vaulted
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Zen and the Art of
living room that’s canopied by the
original combed spruce ceiling and
surrounded by Fleetwood sliders.
The steel fireplace is from Focus
Fireplaces, the sofa is by De La
Espada, and the rug is vintage.
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TEX T BY
Lydia Lee
PHOTOS BY
Joe Fletcher
T House Maintenance
More Japanese minka than Sears Roebuck,

a kit home in the Bay Area provides the right bones
for a renovation.
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Openings in the ceiling allow sun- bottom) features Japanese ash

light to wash over the black slate casework and Jacques Biny lights,
floors and fir columns. A velvet- made in 1956. A Semi pendant by
upholstered Mr. Chair by George Gubi hangs above a De La Espada
Mulhauser adds color to the liv- table. The light near the roof deck
ing room. The kitchen (opposite, is by Roll & Hill (opposite, top).

When Darla Anderson and Kori Rae Kit houses, in which all the parts of a
came across a property for sale in Tiburon, house, except for the plumbing, heating
a secluded town just north of San Francisco, system, and lighting, are delivered pre-cut
they were enthralled by its intoxicating mix 7@C@?WD:E62DD6>3=JOH6C6ƎCDE56G6=@A65
of site and structure. The 3,070-square-foot in the early 1900s as a cost-effective way to
house was designed in a Japanese style that build a home before power tools became
the couple love and is set in a thicket of common. Today, kit houses remain a rela-
tropical plants and pine trees that overlooks tively affordable alternative for a cabin or
a cove, creating a sense of tranquility within other simple structure, though designs by
striking distance of the city. “There’s such a Haiku Houses, which feature imported
grounding and spiritual feeling on the Japanese tile, heavy timber framing, and
property,” Kori says. 9:89W6?5Ǝ?:D96DDF492DC65H@@5A2?6=-
The dwelling, which Darla and Kori pur- ing, are not a budget route, costing $150 to
chased in 2012, has the hallmarks of a $300 per square foot, plus site preparation.
traditional Japanese minka, with its dark Each kit is also customized for the client
wood siding, steeply sloped roof of and the location: The company works with
ceramic tile, and post-and-beam construc- local architects to add rooms, adjust room
tion. But despite its authentic appearance, sizes, and ensure that the concrete piling
the residence is neither very old nor foundation works for the site before fabri-
entirely unique. It’s a “Nikko Farmhouse” cating the components.
from Haiku Houses, a kit-home company The original owner of the Tiburon house
that specializes in models based on had added a number of custom features
16th-century Japanese country houses, that after 20 years had a dated appearance.
and it was delivered and built in 1991. In addition, the master suite felt like a

“Instead of demolishing it and
putting up a massive palace, they transformed a
pretty humble kit house
into something exciting and unique.”
PR EN TIS H A LE, DESIGN ER

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In the master bath (opposite), Hale wood, is by Zen Bathworks. For the
chose slate tile for the floors and heart of the space, Hale designed a
green-and-brown glass tile by double vanity—fabricated with wood
Lunada Bay for the walls, both from from the original house—around
United Tile. The Japanese Ofuro an existing column. The pendant is
soaking tub, crafted from Hinoki by Lindsey Adelman.

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DESIGNER SHED Architecture & Design

LOCATION Tiburon, California
cramped loft because of the slope of the

A Entrance E Pantry/Laundry I Outdoor Kitchen M Sauna
B Office F Kitchen J Deck N Master Bathroom roof. But Darla and Kori, who were moving
C Zen Room G Dining Area K Study O Closet to Tiburon to escape foggy San Francisco,
D Bathroom H Living Area L Master Bedroom P Outdoor Shower 5:5?kE>:?5N+96JƎ8FC65E96Jk5=:G6:?E96
small boathouse on the property while
they completed a modest renovation and
became used to their new commute—both
are producers at the animation giant Pixar
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Studios, located in nearby Emeryville. “In
I our minds, all you had to do was grab a
G J Sawzall, saw the wall that enclosed the
H K kitchen in half, and put a counter on top,”
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Darla says with a laugh.

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former assistant, a set designer named
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of Seattle-based SHED Architecture &
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C B Design. “Michael kept saying, ‘You guys,
O this place is so cool, you’re doing a disser-
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So the couple did exactly that, hiring Hale
to reimagine the home’s interior.

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“There’s such a grounding

and spiritual feeling on the property.”
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The heavy timber post-and-beam struc- ground level with enormous sliding glass Opposite: The property, situated
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San Francisco Bay, includes a
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main house with a deck, a pool,
columns are 16 feet wide, akin to a com- new pool, the new outdoor kitchen, and an outdoor kitchen, and a boat-
>6C4:2=@7Ǝ46=2J@FENj%@?6@7E96H2==D the cove. He relocated the front door so house. The landscape was devised
were load-bearing,” Hale says, “so there that it’s off-center, increasing space on by Hale along with Kate Stickley of
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new interior includes a meditation
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posed renovations, devising an immense tion space with a raised, tatami-lined and a Murphy bed for visitors.
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ing to show what it would feel like if they suite has a squared-off roof dormer that
added a master bedroom above it. This rises above the original tile but blends in
“set design” sold Darla and Kori on a with its Rheinzink cladding. In a gutsy
major transformation of the space. move, Hale also removed the aged red-
Hale kept the home’s basic footprint, wood siding and replaced it with white-
framing, and tiled roof largely intact. painted drywall.
Inside, he maintained the heavy columns, For the designer, reworking such an
combed spruce ceiling, and distinctive unusual home led to surprising—and
EC:2?8F=2CD<J=:89ED2C@F?5E96@F8=2DƎC exciting—results. “I would never have
rafters that give the house its back-to- come up with that house if I was doing it
nature spirit. To create a greater connec- from scratch,” says Hale. “It would prob-
tion to the outdoors, Hale opened up the ably be a lot less interesting.”

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CALLING IT A “DIRECTOR’S CUT,” A DESIGNER

REFRESHES A MIES VAN DER ROHE TOWNHOUSE IN DETROIT
WITH SOME BONUS FEATURES.
PHOTOS BY
MIES
TEX T BY
SAM EICHBLATT MARK WICKENS
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Designer Bryan Boyer and lawyer laying slate floor tiles the same
Laura Lewis bought their town- size as the original linoleum
house in Lafayette Park in 2015, the squares, hanging modular Dieter
same year the storied co-op joined Rams wall shelving, and adding
the National Register of Historic appliances by Fisher & Paykel. The
Places. Their restoration included countertops are Verde Alpi marble.

The couple’s garden-style town- remodel. A Wilhelmina chair by
house (opposite) is one of nearly Ilmari Tapiovaara furnishes the
200 units that Mies van der Rohe living area (below), which opens
designed for Detroit’s middle to the rear of the house (right).
class after World War II. Zac Cruse The kitchen cabinets’ MDF fronts
Construction assisted with their have a serrated finish (below right).
“I think of the project as a love letter of honey locusts, and an enduring sense Marshall, visited the Museum of Modern
rather than a biography,” says designer of community that has persisted over the Art’s archives in New York to study the
Bryan Boyer of his restored Ludwig Mies years, despite the city’s changing fortunes. units’ blueprints. Rather than turn his
van der Rohe townhouse in Detroit. Indeed, Some of its early residents still live there. home into a museum piece, he was curi-
the New York transplant’s take on the Bryan credits Mies’s clean, modern ous how Mies might have designed it dif-
Bauhaus master’s legacy, which includes design for the enclave’s longevity. But ferently today. “Our research helped us to
updates like a state-of-the-art kitchen, is the 1,450-square-foot, two-bedroom make decisions based on what felt accept-
more an homage than a reproduction. townhouse that he and his partner, Laura able within Mies’s architectural universe,
Built in 1960, Bryan’s home is one of 186 Lewis, bought in 2015 hadn’t held up but was contemporary enough to be com-
units and three apartment towers that well over the years. A 1980s remodel had fortable,” he says.
Mies designed for Lafayette Park, consid- introduced some very un-Miesian touches, The Lafayette Park townhouse’s kitchen
6C653JD@>6E96ƎCDEFC32?C6?6H2=AC@;- =:<62A2CBF6EƏ@@CO28=2DDW3@H=D:?<O felt particularly outdated. “Conceptually, it
64E:?E96,?:E65*E2E6DN=E9@F89:EkD;FDE and, worst of all, an all-red bathroom. wasn’t the heart of the home,” says Bryan.
a stone’s throw from downtown, the Before changing anything, Bryan, “They didn’t have the same ideas about
78-acre co-op has sprawling lawns, allées 2A2CE?6C2E2C49:E64EFC6ƎC>2D9 socializing that we do today.” Slotted into

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“THE SPACES ARE SMALL AND INTERCONNECTED.

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PUZZLES WHERE YOU REARRANGE THE SQUARES
TO SEE THE FULL PICTURE.”
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The Kvadrat curtain (below) is stool is by Company. Bryan painted which Bryan is a partner, designed
based on an unrealized detail from the metal band that runs around the the marble dining table (opposite).
the original architect’s notes. The top of each staircase Space Black by The seats are Eames Molded Plastic
Carbon Chair is by Bertjan Pot and Benjamin Moore to match the treads Chairs and the globe pendant came
Marcel Wanders and the Treeflower (right). Dash Marshall, the firm at from a local hardware store.
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ORIGINAL ARCHITECT
Mies van der Rohe
RESTORATION DESIGNER
Bryan Boyer
LOCATION
Detroit, Michigan
A Craft Room G Closet

B Mechanical Room H Bathroom
C Entrance I Guest Room
D Living Room J Office
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side a bathroom and a closet, the kitchen is Bryan and Laura liked the idea and had F Dining Area
bookended by two wing walls—partitions a saffron curtain strung up.
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out at the ends to create irregular cor- did pen a letter to Mies, which he posted
ners—with the living and dining areas on on Dash Marshall’s website. It begins “Dear A
either side. The space is so narrow that its Mies,” and in it he explains the logic behind B
original design featured a fold-down cook- 9:D>@5:Ǝ42E:@?D2?56IAC6DD6D9:D
top, similar to a Murphy bed. admiration for the old master’s handiwork. Basement
Co-op rules precluded Bryan from alter- j&FC23D@=FE672G@C:E6A2CE@7E96AC@;64E
ing the scale of the kitchen, but he was is the special closet rod that you designed,” C
able to bring in open shelving and mod- Bryan writes, referring to the metal
estly sized appliances. Every inch was con- bars that are bent into an odd, backward- G H D
sidered, even the small gaps between the J shape. The closet rods are found all F
redesigned kitchen and the wing walls. over Lafayette Park, but seem not to exist E
“Leaving that line of shadow between the anywhere else in Mies’s oeuvre.
First Floor
old and new parts was our way of paying Bryan’s best guess is that Mies designed
respect,” says Bryan. The dark green mar- these unusual details because Detroit’s
ble countertop isn’t original, but the stone advanced manufacturing capabilities made J
matches a variety that Mies used in other it possible to produce them. Bryan kept
AC@;64ED2C@F?5E96D2>6E:>6N the rods, stripped off decades of paint,
As he pored over the archives, Bryan and powder-coated them different colors.
spotted characterful details that Mies He writes in his letter, “We can’t help but I K
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had either nixed or been unable to realize. think of this as a chance to hot-rod a piece
A curtain separating the entryway and of the house, which seems like exactly the Second Floor
dining room in some of the drawings, for right thing to do in Motor City.”

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“OUR RESEARCH HELPED US TO MAKE DECISIONS

BASED ON WHAT FELT ACCEPTABLE WITHIN MIES’S
ARCHITECTURAL UNIVERSE, BUT WAS
CONTEMPORARY ENOUGH TO BE COMFORTABLE.”
BRYA N BOY ER

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Curved
On a
Grade
Way out in
wilderness of Ontario,
curiously shaped
bends along a tricky
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the
a
house Clad in SPF lumber, zinc, and
glass, David Bronskill and Mark
Dilworth’s vacation home on
Oblong Lake fans out to capture
2,500-square-foot escape. From
left to right, there are three struc-
tures: a three-bedroom guest wing,
a voluminous communal area, and
ridge. wide views of the forest. “Nothing

is straight in the plan,” says
architect Roland Rom Colthoff of
RAW Design, who conceived the
a semi-detached master suite.
Two of the wings share an unusual
fin-shape design because of their
varied ceiling heights.

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Set on a steel frame and reached color door (right). “Roland took a
by a bridge, the master suite extends Lawren Harris painting and matched
up to 13 feet above the sloping the colors perfectly,” says David.
grade (top). The Edito chair in the In the great room (opposite),
den is by Sasha Lakic (above). The the curved ceiling reaches 16 feet.
main corridor bends 100 degrees A Roche Bobois sofa faces a dou-
from end to end and leads to three ble-sided, indoor/outdoor fireplace
guest rooms, each with a different made of board-formed concrete.
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It was always about the dogs. Toronto candidates they interviewed didn’t get _+964@EE286OƎ?:D965:? O42>64=@D6
veterinarian Mark Dilworth and lawyer what they were after—until they met E@>66E:?8E964=:6?EDkƎG6WJ62CA=2?N`
David Bronskill hadn’t even considered Roland Rom Colthoff of RAW Design. Builder Derek Nicholson says part of the
building a cottage until they saw how The couple’s requests weren’t ordinary, challenge was having to massage straight
excited their rescue dogs, Stanley, AJ, and recalls Colthoff: Instead of a certain num- materials like lumber and plywood into
Piglet, were when they visited Mark’s sis- ber of bedrooms or baths, they asked for curves, which required skilled carpenters
ter’s place on Haliburton Lake in secluded “minimal tree removal, a master from Toronto, a good three hours away.
Central Ontario. bedroom like a forest ranger tower, and The cottage is built in three sections
Soon they found themselves scouring a place where their dogs could run wild.” united by a curved corridor: a guest wing,
real estate listings in the area, but the &?9:DƎCDED:E6G:D:E:?OE962C49:- a communal volume, and a master suite,
standard 100-foot-wide lots were too close tect walked the property, swam in the lake, elevated above grade. Its E-shape creates
to their neighbors. As Mark puts it, “The and stood on a small hilltop where the last outdoor areas between the wings, includ-
dogs aren’t very well behaved.” When his owner had cleared a space for vehicles to ing a screened porch that opens onto a
mother told them there were huge lots turn around. As he looked down over the deck through a huge accordion-style door.
for sale on adjoining Oblong Lake, he and valley, with its two bays and acres of pop- For the main volume, Colthoff took a
David drove over right away to see one. lar and ash trees, the landscape unfolded cue from Frank Lloyd Wright and shrank
With 1,400 feet of shoreline and 61 acres of before him like a panorama. the entryway to seven feet in order to
bush, the site provided plenty of space for That vista prompted an unusual, curved 96:89E6?E96D6?D6@72H62DG:D:E@CDƏ@H
both the dogs and owners to romp around. design for the house. Although Colthoff into the kitchen-dining-living room,
That was in 2009. “I’m not sure we were typically avoids rounded buildings—too where 12-to-16-foot-high windows frame
ready for it,” says David, “but we took it whimsical, too constructivist, he says— views of the woods. Here, the tongue-and-
H:E92ƎG6WJ62CA=2?:?>:?5O42>A:?8E96 his initial sketches kept coming up curved, groove ceiling deck soars along the curva-
ƎCDEJ62C2?5E2<:?8@FCE:>6E@3F:=5Nl D@96DE@AA65Ǝ89E:?8H92EE96E6CC2:? ture of large glulam beams, which arrived
+96J2=D@E@@<E96:CE:>6E@Ǝ?52? was telling him to do. cambered from the factory.
architect. David’s law practice in urban Rounded buildings are generally more Erecting the house while maintaining
development puts him in contact with complicated to make. Colthoff estimates trees was a challenge, Colthoff admits.
some of Toronto’s best, but most of the the curve added a month of construction. j.656Ǝ?:E6=JH2?E65E963F:=5:?8E@36

Colthoff, project architect Jon Near the front door, there’s a
Jeronimus, and general contrac- special tub for the owners to wash
tor Derek Nicholson used two their dogs in after hikes. The basin
techniques to build the house: has a low opening and is made
post-and-beam for the great room of durable concrete, courtesy of
and master suite and stick-frame Mag’s Concrete Works. The wood
for the guest wing and entry area. paneling is walnut.

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“All four seasons are

beautiful. It’s our special
place any time of year.”
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compressed by the forest, so you felt as but these are rarely turned on, thanks to
though you were in the woods,” he says. passive climate control.
The setting also dictated some of the Although the couple didn’t grow up
mechanical choices. Mark and David con- “cottaging,” they’re evangelical about it
sidered installing an underground geo- now. With their busy law and veterinary
thermal heat pump to power the HVAC practices, they can manage only a
system, but found they couldn’t dig deep few days off at a time. Plus, it’s hard to
and narrow because of all the Canadian go anywhere else with all the dogs.
Shield rock on-site, or shallow and wide They’ve also added children to the
3642FD6:EH@F=5>62?D24C:Ǝ4:?8EC66DN family. Shortly after buying the property,
Instead, a propane tank fuels the boilers, they became the legal guardians of Saif,
Oblong Lake Cottage N an Iraqi refugee who came to Canada

ARCHITECT LOCATION
through the Urgent Protection Program.
RAW Design Fort Irwin, Ontario Now in his twenties, Saif attends univer-
sity and lives in student housing with two
teenage brothers who joined him in 2016,
A Deck E Mechanical Room I Living/Dining Area
B Entrance F Den J Kitchen Abdullah and Ali. While their day-to-day
C Dog Wash G Bedroom K Bridge involvement with Saif has lessened, David
D Bathroom H Screened Porch L Master Suite and Mark sometimes take all three boys up
to Oblong Lake to swim, relax, and hang
F out with their dogs. Stanley, AJ, and Piglet,
D A
the pack who inspired the cottage, have
E C
G all passed away, but they’ve been replaced
D B
by four more rescues.
Nearly a decade after the couple bought

G K
L the property, there’s still work to be done.
G They just recently started the landscaping.
H J “We didn’t fully appreciate the complexity
A until we saw the building progress
I
on-site,” says David. “Now I sometimes
stop to look at a particular curve or beam
A
and marvel at what we accomplished.”

“The geometry is constantly
changing on you as
you go along the curve.”
ROL A N D ROM C OLT HOF F, A RC H I T E C T
The windows were manufactured concrete floors with radiant heating

by Kolbe Windows & Doors. Louvers appear throughout the residence.
cover the clerestories, reducing The master suite is warmed by
glare and helping with passive a Badger 3112 woodstove by Morsø.
climate control. Opposite, clockwise All of the home’s plumbing
from left: Walnut ply millwork by fixtures are from Watermark
Ashley Woodturning and polished Designs’ Brooklyn 31 collection.
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