The home's position on the massive lot was chosen to maximize passive solar benefits.
A dumb waiter connects the pantry and parking area.
One of the bathrooms features a traditional Japanese Hinoki wood tub.
“The owners were especially disciplined in maintaining calmness in all material and product choices,
The remote location is only accessible by a narrow road, which the architect believes strengthens the owners' bond to their environment.
"The roof, covered in vegetation from the forest floor, helps maintain the clearing's authentic appearance and integrates the building into its environment,
The "bird's nest
The "bird's nest
The bedroom has wraparound views of the outdoors.
In the living room, an Artek daybed is covered in Helios dark green fabric from Johanna Gullichsen.
The exterior of the home is clad in Norway spruce. All of the windows are from Velfac, with the sliders from Schuco.
The kitchen cabinetry is fashioned from oak and the island is quartz.
The exterior bath next to the pool can only be accessed through the deck and features a natural sealed zellige tile and marble vanity.
One of the most impressive elements of this home are its pocket doors. "T<span style="font-family: Theinhardt, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">here was a lot of engineering with the builder to get the doors,
“When you work with a remodel, depending on how far you want to take the work, you are either careful and consider the existing structure or you treat it as a blank canvas,” he says. They worked with the shape of the building to make it “appear less imposing from the street” as well as clean up the elevations to make them more pedestrian in scale by rebuilding the front porch and carport. The exterior, a blackened sugi ban-esque wood, brings warmth and resiliency, and has an “alligator-like texture to it,” says the architect.
An ash wood table by Taliesyn matching the door and window trim in the open living area brings a warm contrast to the polished concrete floors and walls.
“We sleep together in the same bed, and it’s quite cute and cosy,” Parinita says.
The lofted bedroom remains open to the living area, lit by a window seat and opaque clerestory windows.
Custom tables by Taliesyn and classic Chandigarh dining chairs designed by Pierre Jeanneret match the ash wood window and door trim.
The yellow range was one of the first items the couple purchased for the renovation, and it shaped the rest of the home's decor.
In the living room, corner glazing helps blur the line between inside and out. The sofa is by Minotti and the coffee table is by Jake Szymanski. The lounge chair is Finn Juhl.
Inside, bleached oak floors and ceilings frame simple white walls, lending a sense of brightness. In the dining room, a George Nakashima dining set is capped by a pendant light from Apparatus.
Bespoke glass shower doors feature a grapich circular cut out that adds a playful touch to the bathroom.
The ground floor material palette features polished concrete floors and lime washed walls.
Located steps from the beach in Kent, England, the recently renovated structure has a Flemish-bond brick facade, limewashed interiors, and a striking steel staircase.
At Sea Ranch, a half-century-old enclave of rugged modernist houses on the Northern California coast, a new home captures the spirit of its surroundings. The client, a couple, were guided by the Sea Ranch rules—local covenants guide new designs—didn’t mean slipping into Sea Ranch clichés. Lovers of Cor-Ten steel, with its ruddy and almost organic surface, the architects made it the main exterior material, along with board-formed concrete and ipe wood. The Cor-Ten, which quickly turned an autumnal rust in the sea air, and the concrete, with its grain and crannies, mean the house isn’t a pristine box, Ramirez says. His Neutra house "was very crisp and clean," he says. "This house is more distressed, more wabi-sabi." Together, the Cor-Ten steel and board-form concrete give the exterior a weathered look.
The guesthouse has similar built-ins and is outfitted with a reproduction rotating sconce by Serge Mouille and rugs by Stephanie Odegard.
Norman Millar and Judith Sheine designed the built-ins in the living-dining area, which were made from vertical-grain Douglas fir. Vintage Dutch industrial chairs are arranged around a black walnut dining table that, like the madrone coffee table, is by Urban Hardwoods.
The living room is furnished with vintage items, including a leather-and-chrome chair by Suekichi Uchida and a stacking stool by Florence Knoll.
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