Chilmark House

Designed and built in Chilmark, Massachusetts, the Chilmark House project
covers almost five acres of previously unbuilt land in the heart of the farming
and artistic community that is “Up-Island” Martha’s Vineyard. Architectural work
was done in collaboration with Gray Organschi Architects out of New Haven,
Connecticut.

Based on a shared love of the dense aggregation of New England’s farm
complexes, we sited the studio and the house barns tightly together, creating
a charged outdoor space between them, which provides the approach to the
house’s entrance. The ceilings in the public rooms lift to the high ridges, with
dropped areas to create a sleeping loft high in the roof. The lower level consists
of a series of bedrooms with shared spaces between that look into light wells,
landscaped with local rocks and moss. We designed and built many of the
freestanding furniture pieces specifically for this project and enlisted great
designers and long time collaborators.