There are times when you are home to yourself and you long for company.
For the modern-meets-traditional-farmhouse design of the New England house, Michel Ciambra owes a lot to Page McConnell, the longtime keyboardist for jam band Phish. No, the groovy tunes did not assist Ciambra free his mind and inspire the aesthetic. McConnell was the home’s former owner and working with Geoff Wolcott of GKW Working Design, made…
Felix Lopez and Life partners Joseph Rogers have dwelt in their tidy and well-appointed Dallas studio for four years. While short on space, their house is a vibrant reflection of their relationship. It has not always been that way. The two admit they have very different layout aesthetics; as Rogers says, “When we moved in,…
Working with a small budget, restricted space and an anything-goes mindset, Martha Harms decorated her Dallas apartment having an eclectic mix of bold textiles, quirky hand-me-downs and vintage furniture. “I am incapable of picking a colour motif,” she says. “I like them all.” Harms, an actor, constantly shared space with roommates in the past. “That…
Back in Caroline Rob Zaleski’s book Long Island Modernism 1930-1980 (W. W. Norton, September 2012), the preservationist documents important modern buildings — many of them residences — made by 25 architects. The book is part of a larger project in which she surveyed over 500 buildings by 78 architects to the Society for the Preservation…
When this homeowner bought her Craftsman bungalow in Pasadena, California, it was stripped of a lot of its charms by bad renovations. She and her boyfriend at the time worked on the home constantly, but they went a bit overboard on Craftsman style. After she split from the renovation-helping Craftsman-inclined boyfriend, the home seemed just…
Architect Amy Dutton and her family reside in a New Hampshire bungalow — an anomaly on a road lined with Victorians and colonials. The home was the tiniest on the block before Dutton added the square footage her family wanted. “We loved this home back to life with updated materials, but we lost touch of…
Set right on the bay of 18-mile Long Beach Island in New Jersey, Paul and Barbara Barnish’s summer house was developed to embrace the shore. From the bay views in each room to the rooftop deck for their personal pier throughout the road, the charming house is the perfect escape for this couple and their…
Kalwall is the brand name of light-transmitting wall panels manufactured by their namesake. Fiberglass translucent faces are permanently secured to an aluminum grid based on custom specifications and then delivered to your job website. Silva Studios Architecture Kalwall is designed to be extremely weather and wind hardy and may be used in any climate throughout…
I’ll never forget my first experience with an open shower. On a French-class visit to Paris at the innocent age of 14, I arrived at my hotel tired, jet-lagged and longing to get a nice, hot beverage. I pushed open the bathroom door and looked around, flummoxed. Where in the world was the bathtub? I…
Should you happen upon a rare first lamp made by Serge Mouille, guard it with your life — it might yield a six-figure payout from a collector. Mouille, a French artisan, carefully crafted all the first midcentury modern lamps himself and believed them to be works of art. In fact, actor Henry Fonda was taken…