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features 72 80 88 96 Swedish Bliss Making a Splash Adjusted for Italian Unification On the island of Tjörn off A couple return an Inflation Past meets present in COVER PHOTO BY the coast of Sweden, unusual Austrian home A midcentury aficionado Sardinia, as an architect, Benjamin Rasmussen a family builds a vacation by a modern architect and self-taught designer joined by a new team, retreat attuned to its to its former ’70s glory. melds three Brutalist villas ABOVE: builds a budget-conscious natural surroundings. he created decades ago One of the many outdoor TEXT dream house in Nashville. into one spectacular home. spaces at a multipart TEXT Sonia Zhuravlyova TEXT dwelling in Sardinia, Italy. Tiffany Orvet PHOTOS Ryan Burleson TEXT PHOTO BY PHOTOS Jason Larkin PHOTOS Shonquis Moreno Julian Broad Birgitta Wolfgang Pippa Drummond PHOTOS Julian Broad

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15 Editor’s Letter 31 Modern World 44 Process 62 Small Spaces 18 Community Despite challenges of cost, French Paper Company in Dotted with color and enlivened supply chain, and competition, Niles, Michigan, takes us onto with art, a compact apartment a host of designers and the factory floor to see how in Brooklyn Heights is just the manufacturers old and new its “black licorice” paper is made. right size for a pair of creatives remain committed to producing TEXT BY Lindsay J. Warner and their growing family. domestically. We celebrate PHOTOS BY Jamie Chung TEXT BY Julie Lasky home-grown design with a PHOTOS BY Stephen Kent Johnson look at some of the best product introductions for 2018; 50 Conversation insights from seven companies Maia Smilow Schoenfelder, 110 Interiors 130 Sourcing that have been in business for granddaughter of midcentury Unwilling to settle for bland, a See it? Want it? Need it? Buy it! four to 155 years; and spotlights furniture designer Mel Smilow transplanted California couple on classic items (like the box and head of the company that turn to a New York design firm 132 One Last Thing cheese grater you probably bears his name, talks reissues to upgrade their Brooklyn condo. Jennifer Siegal reveals the have in your cabinet) that always and relevance. TEXT BY Tim McKeough significance of a little tin toy. have been, and continue to TEXT BY Tim McKeough PHOTOS BY Mark Wickens be, proudly made in the USA. ILLUSTRATION BY Sam Kerr TEXT BY Dora Vanette 116 My House ILLUSTRATIONS BY Peter Oumanski 56 Prefab A painter and avid postwar Nine shipping containers form furniture collector transforms the basis of a warmly industrial a 1963 Gene Leedy house in residence outside Denver that Winter Haven, Florida, into Get a full year of Dwell at welcomes friends and community. a showcase for art and design. dwell.com/subscribe TEXT BY Ray Mark Rinaldi TEXT BY Jennifer Pattison Tuohy PHOTOS BY Benjamin Rasmussen PHOTOS BY Matthew Williams

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Ideally our homes should evolve in tandem with our culture. But lately they’ve been lagging behind. In a sense, we all are. Technology has us struggling to keep up as we encounter a ﬁrestorm of useful, entertaining, addictive, inspiring, and time-wasting images and messages daily. Meanwhile the continu- ing damage to our environment—something architecture can and must address—puts our very future at risk. How can our homes be a place of calm and rest in a turbulent world, while still engaging us in culture and community? I believe the answer is in building for our time. Today American homes are rife with copies of what I call “grandma’s kitchens”—spaces that nod stylistically to the humble traditions of the past but fail to capture their magic. Drywall is substi- tuted for plaster, country-style cabinets are paired with yards of counter space, and crowds of dor- mers spring up in place of pitched roofs. That kind of detailing can feel inauthentic when imitated today. It’s from another time, another culture. In a way, I understand this impulse. Uncertainty pushes us to reach for the familiar. But instead of trying to replicate our grandmothers’ kitchens tile for tile, perhaps it is better to think about what feelings those spaces stirred in us. Maybe she had windows to the north, providing a gentle, cool light that you really loved. Perhaps you remember the smell of her bread baking in a generously sized oven. Or maybe you liked the layout, how people came in and out so openly. Seeking these emotional connec- tions to the past will help guide your design decisions in a way that is more meaningful than choosing a similar molding. Authenticity is a core value for so many of us, one that can be applied in the home. Whether you are working with an architect or just want to personally imbue your dwelling with more of yourself, everyone can beneﬁt from thinking deeply about houses that have the power to both engage us intellectually and provide us with comfort. We believe that design and architecture can be used more sensitively and experimentally to create Bringing lasting and inspiring moments on this earth. We hope you will join our community in discussing how we can further advance these ideas at large It Home and within ourselves.

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I love everything about the Girard house. I hope I get an opportunity to bid on it, should the owners ever want a new curator! Jenny Cook COMMUNITY

Clockwise from above: “Their Own Girard” featured the last standing residence solely designed by Alexander Girard; a 1965 Fiat was a surprise decorative touch in “Garage Scale”; and “Mod Side of the Barn” captured a family retreat in South Africa. ) BARN ( From Dwell.com

I read your interview the belly of the earth, when I referred “Their Own Girard” that [garage] and make Always happy to see BUREAUX BUREAUX with Dan Maginn on trapped for hundreds to it as “basically SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER it so beautiful. The red gallery/homes. How / Dwell’s new podcast, of years surrounded processed dirt.” I’ve car is the perfect sur- does one live without RM-3, and I have to by dirt in the form of relied on this noble I love everything but realist touch! If I go to art? I hope the owners the metal roof trusses.

say, if I were steel, iron ore. Steel is material for every San Francisco, I would will participate in the ; GREG COX ) I’d be pissed. To see not dirt. And this building I’ve designed Pleasing proportions love to take a walk on SF Open Studios. this podcast come to isn’t to undermine since becoming an and scenes from every that street. Congratulations! GARAGE fruition sparked joy dirt, which in and of architect. I wouldn’t angle, indoors and out. —HÉLÈNE VOLAT —COLLEEN MALONEY ( within me. And I love itself is fascinating want to offend it. The glazed brick, wood the idea of covering and a true chameleon Dirt, however, is kind paneling, corrugated Congratulations on “Mod Side of the Barn” one material “three of materials. of pissed at me for glass, screens, ﬁre- such an incredible SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER ways.” But to say —Diana Giulietti being too general place, built-ins, clere- home and reuse proj- ; CESAR RUBIO RUBIO ; CESAR

Baie mooi. [Very ) steel is “basically pro- and suggested I do a story windows... all ect. That was ﬁve years pretty, in Afrikaans.] cessed dirt”—this is Thanks for the letter, podcast called “Dirt 3 add up to perfection, in very well spent. —KERNAN COLEMAN my eyes! —CAROLYN A. —JAMES GIRARD an insult to any metal, Diana. I hope steel Ways” to dig deeper ( really, and misdirects isn’t pissed at me on the subject. I Wow! And perfect spot Absolutely love the the potential of dirt. and understands agreed, so stay tuned. “Garage Scale” for the red Fiat. The design and ﬁnishes, Steel was born from I was being cheeky —Dan Maginn SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER kitchen nook is a dark but I foresee a mainte- Only great artists space for art, but I love nance nightmare Correction: The article “Landmarks & Engels” in the September/ could have the vision, the sleek, white, mini- with those exterior October issue incorrectly stated that Belgian architect Lucien Engels the patience, and the malist kitchen and window projections!

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If you could change one thing about your home, what would it be? Offered a magic wand to make any home improvement, our online community told us about the top items on their to-do lists—as well as some loftier ambitions. COMMUNITY

Turn my San Diego cookie-cutter condo kitchen My dark green mala- chite bathroom with into a “wow” moment. Goodbye countertops small diamond details. and cabinets that everyone used in 2006 during the It looks like something out of a hotel in Vegas. peak flip years. @joshnsd on Instagram @manuhasanaccent on Instagram

Update the floor-to- Rewired electrical cost or how long it The back of our This is not a very sexy ceiling windows that and new lighting. Oh, will take, especially house is almost all response, but more were put in in 1959 the difference better in a 103-year-old glass, which gives storage would help in and make sure they lighting would make house. Not sure amazing light, but I ways that would be can open to get more in a 1949 bungalow! I wanna open Pan- sometimes wish we life-changing. air in our midcentury Stacy Bartko on dora’s Box. had more wall space @frankpphillips on modern. Facebook @karenarman on for art. Instagram Michelle Mendenhall Instagram @lisasadd on on Facebook The kitchen. The Instagram I would split the lot germophobe in I would add a ton of and create an acces- I’d remove my me hates the tile hardscaping to our A new kitchen. I still sory dwelling unit— neighbors via kinetic countertops. But the very wooded yard to have the original do my part to mitigate projectile. And then thing about kitchen help keep overgrown 19 2 Harvest Gold the housing crisis add some windows remodels is that you weeds at bay. Formica countertops. in California. for more light. never know how @suerissab on Janette Niwa on @gigi_flrs on @mpkelley_ on much it’s going to Instagram Facebook Instagram Instagram ILLUSTRATION: RAYMOND BIESINGER RAYMOND ILLUSTRATION:

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Spartan Queens An ascetic-minded couple take a New York row house down to the studs.

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German architect Julian The kitchen is part of accessible through von der Schulenburg an “inhabitable wall” a raised door (above). did a complete overhaul that holds the master The floor is made of of a 1901 townhouse in bath, a mud room, a plywood scored in a Ridgewood, Queens. toilet, and a small tub, triangle pattern (right).

You can count on one hand the pieces When Julian and Min purchased the of furniture in the apartment Julian von yellow brick building that houses their der Schulenburg shares with his wife, Min, apartment three years ago, it was totally and their year-old daughter, Miru: bed, run down. Their gut renovation, which dining table with benches, console, daybed, also included an upstairs rental unit and chair. Everything about their home is ultra basement studio, was “largely a process pared back, down to the lighting, which of subtraction,” says Julian. Out went the consists of LED bulbs in simple porcelain fake wood walls. Out went the dropped sockets. The sparseness ﬁts the couple’s Styrofoam ceilings. The design took shape minimalist lifestyle, but it also emphasizes as demolition progressed. When they were the raw beauty of the loft-like space. tearing down the walls, for example, they

2626 “I didn’t want to fake a perfect turn-of-the-century Ridgewood house. It’s contextual, but it’s a conversion.” Julian von der Schulenburg, architect and resident Wherever possible, the couple saved original elements, like the hallway staircase and ban- ister (above left) and COMMUNITY sections of tin ceiling (above right). They redid the electrical and plumbing, but kept the metal radiators, which were painted silver (left). The space can be divided into three sections, thanks to sliding panels that hang from channels in the floating ceiling, all done in Decorator’s White by Benjamin Moore. A Wishbone chair by Hans Wegner for Carl Hansen & Søn sits in the bedroom area.

discovered a lining of tar-covered bricks Julian, who grew up and is licensed in that became a key element of the project. Germany, worked with two Pritzker- Uncovered remnants of tin were melded winning architects—Peter Zumthor and into a new fl oating ceiling. Pipes, like the Rem Koolhaas—before starting his New bricks, were left exposed. To keep an open York– and Munich-based practice a decade fl ow, Julian recessed the kitchen along one ago, but he feels a greater connection to wall and tucked the master bath behind the former. “Zumthor’s philosophy is about More at Dwell.com it. Doors in the wall hide storage, a wash- the atmosphere of spaces, and looking for Do you have a project room, and a cleverly placed soaking tub. some kind of ‘magic’ through material you’d like to see published Except for the light gray fl oor, everything and light,” says Julian, who worked his own in Dwell? Share it at inside that wasn’t brick was painted white. kind of magic on a quiet block in Queens. dwell.com/add-a-home

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We launched on Kickstarter, so we 1 2 3 4 were immediately accountable to our REJUVENATION IACOLI & McALLISTER CROFT HOUSE BEND backers. Later, Portland, Oregon Seattle, Washington Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California when we decided Taking its cue from the Composed of brass and Nestled in an ultra thin Bend’s wire furniture is all to design a sofa, sweeping curves of powder-coated steel tubes steel frame with the help of hand bent and spot welded we sent out a survey medieval flying buttresses, that range in size from sturdy jute webbing, the using recyclable metals. The to our customer the O&G Ames floor lamp three to 18 inches, the Acis Leather Sierra chair’s seat same is true of its custom base and received features a cast base in No. 7.1 hanging light system is decidedly cushy. Like macramé wall hanging, 1,400 responses brushed or burnished brass can be arranged in almost every piece made by Croft which combines wire with in the first 24 hours. and is topped with a linen endless configurations on a House, the lounge chair has woven yarn in a range of We were able to integrate a lot of shade in white or black. 60-inch-long mount. many customizable options. bright, ’70s-inspired colors. insights about what people wanted in terms of comfort, material, and color JACOB BROMWELL Los Angeles‚ California into that design.

DESIGNED IN 1819, THE JACOB BROMWELL CHEESE GRATER SET THE STANDARD FOR ALL SUCCESSORS. THE BOXY STAINLESS STEEL BODY ALEX O’DELL INCLUDES THREE GRATING SURFACES, PLUS A SLICER. THE COMPANY, Cofounder and COO WHICH MANUFACTURES IN MULTIPLE STATES‚ ESTIMATES THAT ONE IN FOUR AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS OWNS A BROMWELL GRATER. ILLUSTRATION: PETER OUMANSKI ILLUSTRATION:

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LOUISE GRAY CORBÉ BLU DOT Minneapolis, Minnesota Detroit, Michigan Minneapolis, Minnesota A smaller version of Designers Kaitlyn and Ryan The sheltering high back of Louise Gray’s signature Lawless of Corbé craft Blu Dot’s Bloke Velvet throw, the Ida Little quilt all their porcelain wares by lounge chair forms a com- is nonetheless big on hand. Their Medium planter fortable nook. Part of a visual impact. Handmade comes in a rounded or collection that also includes in Minneapolis, it can be angular silhouette with sev- a sectional, the seat rests used as a baby blanket or eral glaze options, including on a hardwood frame and

displayed as a work of art. a rich satin-matte orange. powder-coated steel legs. PETER OUMANSKI ILLUSTRATION:

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DAVID WEEKS THOS. MOSER New York‚ New York Freeport‚ Maine EST. 1996 EST. 1972

Independent New England downtown woodworking design studio revivalists

Small Business Word-of-mouth When you build Our customers-in- something from residence programs scratch, there’s this allow people to weird moment when come to Maine and you realize, if I walk participate in the away, this would just making of their piece. be gone—it would Repeat business be like dust. Until and referral work is you reach a certain probably our single scale and there is largest market seg- significant equity ment. Our custom- and several partners, ers’ living rooms are a business is actually some of the best very ephemeral. showrooms we could possibly create. Competition All the retail is going Digital to Amazon, so The online world is 4 manufacturing is the ultimate equal- one of the few izer, since it is easy opportunities left to from 10 feet away create something. to make any table In the past, everyone look beautiful. We used to think they want to use our had to compete with online platform as a IKEA. In the end, place for people there’s no point. The to read stories—the best thing to do idea of knowing is just to find your not only where your own market. furniture came from, but also who Knockoffs made it for you. You want to be bit- ter about it, but to Craftsmanship go after anybody Some of the best takes an incredible woodworkers we amount of effort. In have, and I’m sure the end, you’ll spend this applies to many more time dealing other companies, with legal issues than live woodworking. making. For me, the When they go home reason I got into this on the weekend, industry was not to what do you think spend my time in they do? They do court, but to come up woodworking. It’s with new ideas. part of their DNA.

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MORE THAN HALF THE AIRSTREAMS BUILT SINCE WALLY BYAM DESIGNED THE FIRST TRAVEL TRAILER‚ IN 1929‚ ARE STILL TAKING TO THE ROAD. LIKE ALL AIRSTREAMS‚ THE ICONIC BAMBI‚ INTRODUCED IN 1961‚ HAS AN AERODYNAMIC SHAPE AND LIGHTWEIGHT ALUMINUM CONSTRUCTION THAT MAKES IT A BREEZE TO TOW. ELEMENTS OF ITS DESIGN LIVE ON IN CURRENT MODELS.

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HEATH San Francisco‚ California EST. 1948

Champions of handcrafted ceramics

Scaling When we first 1 bought the business 15 years ago, it was hard to find people who were interested in working for us, let alone who had the right experience. It still remains chal- lenging. This does limit the size of our operation. If there are only six people who are good at something, then why would I hire someone who isn’t good, just to have a bigger business?

Knockoffs Initially it was hard SOUTH to resist reacting, but when we stepped back we realized our only competition should be ourselves. You need to push and make yourself better and make your product better, because that is what will make you original and keep you ahead of the game. You need to keep on striving for your own level of greatness. 1 2 3 4 E-commerce Online, we try to ELIJAH LEED EAST FORK ORBIX HOT GLASS SKYLAR MORGAN replicate what Durham, North Carolina Asheville, North Carolina Fort Payne, Alabama Atlanta, Georgia makes our products Constructed of etched While its warm rust color Husband-and-wife Cal and The sinker cypress Hillock feel special in walnut and brushed makes the Utah line of din- Christy Breed create color- armoire uses that most basic stores. Although brass, the elemental Ada nerware perfect for display, ful handcrafted glassware of forms—the half moon nothing can take the pendant features a pivoting the collection is also strong in Alabama’s Appalachian dowel—to great visual effect. place of picking arm that can be adjusted enough for everyday use. foothills. Caelum is a series The six-foot-tall cabinet is up a bowl and feel- into a slanted or perpen- The hand-glazed pieces are of blown vessels with lined in maple and outfitted ing its heft, we try dicular position from made from regional materi- carved surfaces that resem- with leather shelves and a to mimic that simple, a drop of 16 to 48 inches. als and are dishwasher-safe. ble chiseled wood. hanging rod. expressive feeling on our website.

CAPEL RUGS Troy‚ North Carolina ROBIN PETRAVIC Co-owner

IN 1917‚ ANTICIPATING THE IMPACT OF MECHANICAL TRACTORS ON HIS BUSINESS PRODUCING COTTON ENDS FOR PLOW LINES‚ A. LEON CAPEL SHIFTED GEARS. INSTEAD OF MAKING ROPE FOR MULE REINS‚ HE BRAIDED THE COTTON INTO OVAL RUGS. THEY WERE PICKED UP BY SEARS ROE- BUCK AND JC PENNEY‚ AND THE NOW 100-YEAR-OLD BRAND TOOK OFF. ILLUSTRATION: PETER OUMANSKI ILLUSTRATION:

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Outsourcing So many companies have left the U.S., and there’s only one reason for that: It’s cheaper to make products somewhere else. But we’ve always been committed to keeping jobs in our community. In the late 1970s, when many jobs left the upper Ohio River Valley, we chose to stay and keep the doors open for the people SOUTHWEST

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meets annually.

come to tour our plant in West Virginia, 1 2 3 4 and they hold a con- vention that revolves around the brand. PFEIFER STUDIO DOUBLEBUTTER MODERN FOLK WARE MODFIRE They always give us Bernalillo, New Mexico Denver, Colorado Santa Fe, New Mexico Phoenix, Arizona wonderful feedback. Each La Cueva table is a The backless Roadrunner Ceramicist Jennie Johnsrud A “regal” midcentury- They share ideas unique artwork. The cubes— bench has an ergonomic likes to finish her hand- inspired firepit, the Royalfire on how to decorate perfect for a nightstand seat that’s higher in the made wheel-thrown pottery measures 30 inches in with Fiesta and post or side table—are hewn from front, following the angle with a simple clear glaze, diameter, with an interior pictures on social Ponderosa pine wood and of the thigh. Available and her teapot is no excep- channel that can be media. People love handpainted by New Mexico in oak, walnut, and maple, tion. It comes with a built- filled with decorative rocks taking pictures artists in abstract, modern the bench is assembled in strainer, a loop under the or fire glass. Fuel options of their tablescapes. shapes and bold colors by using traditional mortise- lid for hanging a tea ball, include wood, natural gas, They’ll set their Benjamin Moore. and-tenon joints. and a sturdy oak handle. and propane. tables with different Fiesta colors and vintage tablecloths. It’s remarkable how creative they are. IGLOO Katy‚ Texas

BECAUSE IGLOO BEGAN AS A METAL SHOP‚ ITS FIRST BEVERAGE COOLERS‚ LIZ McILVAIN INTRODUCED IN THE 1950s‚ LOOKED LESS LIKE PLASTIC CARRYALLS President, AND MORE LIKE INSULATED STEEL DRUMS. IT WASN’T UNTIL 1971 THAT THE Homer Laughlin China Co. COMPANY HIT ON ITS SIGNATURE ITEM: THE PERSONAL-SIZE‚ SWIVEL- LID PLAYMATE. IT’S BEEN A PICNIC FIXTURE EVER SINCE‚ OFTEN IN RED. ILLUSTRATION: PETER OUMANSKI ILLUSTRATION:

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ALLIED MAKER CULINARIUM SIMON PEARCE Glen Cove, New York Portland, Maine Queechee, Vermont A collaboration between The newest version of the Part of the Woodbury the lighting studio Allied Module 6/6 stacking salt collection, which includes Maker and ceramic artist and spice cellar is made pitchers, glasses, and Michele Quan, the from a patented concrete coasters, the cocktail carafe Mquan Circle sconce pairs mix that’s impervious to has a slim, angular profile, simple hardware with water and oil and resistant its silhouette broken only hand-painted stoneware to chipping and scratching. by an elegant spout and an backplates that resemble (The company is soon to indentation that takes the celestial bodies. relocate to South Carolina.) place of a handle.

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O&G STUDIO VERMONT FARM TABLE CAROLINE Z HURLEY Warren, Rhode Island Bristol, Vermont Brooklyn, New York The austere, Shaker-style The slight upward curve Inspired by the colors and Athenaeum settee, designed of the nesting Modern textures of the Southwest, by Andrew Mau, is built Wooden dishes, handmade the Overlapping Dashes of maple or ash and comes in white oak or walnut, pillow is made of fabric in four sizes, up to nine makes them ideal for serv- block-printed in New and a half feet. It can be ing appetizers, salads, Bedford, Massachusetts, a finished in any of the and pastas. The largest of once-thriving textile hub woodworking studio’s many the three pieces measures that Caroline Z Hurley is

signature stains. 13 inches square. helping to revitalize. PETER OUMANSKI ILLUSTRATION:

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YEARS MORE YEARS 100-150 OLD THAN 150 OLD

BERNHARDT PENDLETON Lenoir‚ North Carolina Portland‚ Oregon EST. 1889 EST. 1863

Not-so-small Spinners of family furniture iconic business Americana

Supply Chain Efficiency There are so many Having a mill in the furniture parts U.S. means we can that you can no lon- turn things around ger source in quickly. We just fin- America. That supply ished a blanket proj- chain is gone, so ect that we took from you have to go off- concept to delivery shore. But an even in three weeks. We bigger challenge is wouldn’t have been finding people, able to do it if our particularly talented mill was in Asia. craftspeople. When so much manufactur- Brick and Mortar ing left the U.S. Online retail has 20 years ago, many increased our focus young people saw on stores. They’re their parents lose not as important as their careers, so they used to be for the idea of working storing inventory, but in manufacturing they need to be bet- became undesirable. ter than they were This generation has before at telling sto- opted to do almost ries. There’s a lot to anything else. So be said for some- the problem is, you body who is walking have an aging work- down the street and force and no one looks in the window coming in behind it. and decides to come through the door. Instincts You have to do what Data you think is right. We have emotional You can’t be looking reactions to products, over your shoulder at just like consumers what everybody else do. But as business is doing or trying to managers, we need anticipate what the to watch the data as consumer is going to well. We just marked want next. If it the 10th anniversary doesn’t feel right and of the Lehman col- if it isn’t what you lapse. That was the stand for, you can beginning of a big waste a lot of energy challenge for us and in the process. If you others. Following the do good work, peo- numbers became ple will find you. paramount.

JERRY HELLING JOHN BISHOP President, President and CEO Bernhardt Design

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J Geiger Embraces the Understated With Sleek, Motorized Shades

When James Geiger was leafi ng aesthetic,” says Geiger. Instead, he handcrafted in Charleston, South through the pages of Dwell in 2011, he wanted to create something with Carolina, can be custom cut to made an illuminating observation. None a clean profi le that would “become exacting specifi cations. This strategy of the stunning images he saw included part of the architecture.” produces a consistently accurate fi t window shades or blinds. It was in this Geiger also developed a unique because fabric variability is less than revelatory moment that the concept for two-step installation process for his one sixteenth of an inch. Geiger’s innovative shading company revolutionary shading systems, and that Thoughtfully designed and was born. An alternative to dated, visually process has proven to be as crucial to meticulously installed, J Geiger shades distracting window coverings, J Geiger product quality as Geiger’s patented are intended to blend into their shading systems would instead be hardware designs. First, J Geiger- surroundings so that fi xtures, furnishings, streamlined, minimal, and modern. certifi ed installers mount the hardware: art, and views stand out. The pioneering, J Geiger was the fi rst to offer elegant, solid aluminum or Delrin brackets milled less-is-more look is an ideal fi t for modern motorized shading solutions with no in California. Once installed, precise spaces, but simplicity of design makes visible wires or screws. Traditional measurements are taken with the these shades exceedingly versatile—they shading products “had function, but no hardware in place, so that the shades, complement any carefully crafted space.

JGEIGER process TEXT BY PHOTOS BY| @JAMIECHUNGSTUDIO Lindsay J. Warner Jamie Chung

In the Black A sixth-generation paper mill in Michigan endures in the digital age.

Founded by J.W. French on the banks of the St. Joseph French Paper Company’s River in southwest Michigan in 1871, French Paper is business is much more than one of the last small, independent paper mills in America— white letter stock. On the factory floor, Sean Penny operates the and one of the few still owned and run by the same hydropulper, a machine that family. “When I tell people I’m a paper salesman, the ﬁrst is used to make greeting cards, thing they say is, ‘Didn’t the internet kill that job?’” photo backdrops, envelopes, jokes Brian French, J.W.’s great-great-great grandson. retail packaging, and more.

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The master rolls of finished paper are 107 inches wide and weigh up to 8,000 pounds. Customers can buy the product by the roll or have it cut and stacked into cartons. This roll of “black licorice” paper represents just one of 50 shades of black that French Paper produces.

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BLACK LICORICE ROLL The French family illuminates the art of papermaking, step by step.

COLLECT THE WOOD RECYCLE THE WASTE French Paper sources bales of virgin hardwood and softwood Recycled fibers—here, leftover scraps from envelopes and pulps from various suppliers who handle the tree-to-pulp other projects—are placed with the virgin wood pulp in a production process. The packaging used for delivery is made mixer called a hydropulper. The machine breaks the fibers of the same type of fiber as the bale inside. down into a slurry using water and a three-foot blade.

It’s true that digital media—as well as That spirit of quiet innovation carries quirky promotional materials—including foreign competition—has carved a size- on, with fifth-generation Jerry French an 18-inch inflatable Jerry French doll— able chunk out of the print trade. By one at the helm as CEO, and Brian, VP of sales French Paper’s ad campaigns are cheekier accounting, 126 paper mills closed down in and marketing, and his sister Kim, than you’d expect from a brand that’s a few the U.S. between 2000 and 2015. But regional sales manager, on board as sixth- years away from celebrating its sesquicen- French Paper, last survivor in the city of generation operators. tennial. Most important, the Minneapolis- Niles, which once boasted five mills, is “As a small mill, we’re flexible and nim- based agency has kept French Paper celebrating its 147th year. ble,” says Brian. “We do a lot of specialty top-of-mind for graphic designers and That could be because the company has work, from matching a specific Pantone high-end retailers looking for packaging always taken a slightly unconventional shade for a logo to adding things like grass with a certain X-factor. “Fun is part of our approach. If there is such a thing as the clippings, coffee grounds, or glitter to brand. It helps set us apart,” Brian says. cutting edge of the paper business, the paper for a custom touch.” Plenty has changed in Niles since trap- French family has consistently occupied it. While the factory of about 110 employ- pers and traders, the city’s first entrepre- In 1915, Brian’s great-grandfather Frank ees still produces “traditional” print prod- neurs, swapped goods and supplies on the started investing in hydropower to ensure ucts—things like envelopes and standard edges of the St. Joseph. But the city of a steady source of electricity, a decision 8.5x11 paper—it has specialized in custom about 11,000 still thrives on what Brian that has conserved more than a million paper since 1931, when it pivoted away calls its hardworking Midwest mentality. barrels of fossil fuels over the years. from manufacturing paper baking trays to “We can get a call from a customer and (Today, excess electricity is pumped back making premium stationery. (It has never make paper the same week or early the to the city grid.) During the Great made newsprint.) next, while others may not be able to do it Depression, the company was early to Brian attributes much of the company’s for weeks,” Brian says. “Our building is adopt the use of recycled-fiber paper, and resilience to its longtime creative agency, old, but our machines are updated con- in 1949 it introduced the first-ever animal- Charles S. Anderson Design. From the stantly to keep pace with where the busi- free imitation parchment sheet. retro-cool French bull terrier logo to the ness is going.”

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ADD THE DYE TEST THE COLOR After the fibers are broken down, the chosen dye French Paper has its own lab for in-process color testing. is added to the hydropulper, which can hold 5,000 gallons Each batch is examined for quality before entering a paper in a vat as large as a swimming pool. machine that’s the size of a football field.

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REFINE THE PULP ELIMINATE THE WATER After it’s screened for unwanted shards of material, The paper machine’s large sprayer, or “head box,” distributes the mixture flows through the paper machine, which the stock onto a 107-inch-wide wire. As water drains, features rotating discs that cut, fray, and flatten the fibers the wire shakes back and forth so fibers are distributed in in preparation for being formed, smoothed, and dried. random directions, allowing for strong, consistent paper.

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HEAT AND DRY DRY, SMOOTH, AND MEASURE The fiber mixture comes out of the head box formed into a A scanner, seen here, moves back sheet, but it’s still more than 99 percent water. To reduce and forth along the width of the sheet to read its water content to the final 4 percent, the sheet goes through color, moisture, and weight. several sets of large rollers, each one hotter than the last.

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PRESS AND BATHE TRIM AND FINISH Next the sheet receives a starch-based treatment called After being spun onto a large metal spool, the master roll a “size bath” to make it stronger and more printable. It then is either sold whole or trimmed into smaller units goes through a second drying process to reduce moisture, by the slitter, seen here. The embosser may then add a increase sheet density, and smooth the surface. decorative finish, like leather, linen, felt, or fabric.

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“ We sell paper to everyone, from In order to reuse water, fiber, and dye, French Paper usually starts a person who just wants a custom the week with a batch of white, and then the colors get darker as ream for a home printer to the days progress. Once a month the mill does a “dark color week” Fortune 500 companies.” Brian French of deep blues, blacks, reds, and browns. The majority of the paper on this roll will go to a customer that makes packaging for a board- game manufacturer.

More at Dwell.com Go deeper inside French Paper’s process with more photos and a video at dwell.com/in-the-black

DWELL NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 49 conversation TEXT BY ILLUSTRATION BY Tim McKeough Sam Kerr

Until a few years ago, collectors and 1970s—has been building. In August, Judy design buffs had largely forgotten the late died after a two-year battle with ALS. But American midcentury modern furniture Smilow Design, now helmed by her 27-year- designer Mel Smilow. But in 2013, his old daughter, Maia Smilow Schoenfelder, daughter, Judy Smilow, reissued 10 of his and Maia’s father, graphic designer Steven shapely, wood-framed greatest hits under Schoenfelder, in New York, is poised to the name Smilow Design. Since then, bring even more attention to the modernist interest in the unsung champion of whose work was nearly lost to history. affordable, American-made furniture— who designed, manufactured, and sold How did Smilow Design start? his line in Smilow-Thielle stores on the It was always my mom’s dream to East Coast from 1949 through the late relaunch my grandfather’s company. She Maia Smilow Schoenfelder The newly named head of a revived midcentury brand talks about preserving and advancing her grandfather’s legacy.

Designed in 1950, the Rail Back Schoenfelder, recently took over sofa epitomizes Mel Smilow’s flair as keeper of the designer’s flame; for combining sinuous lines, com- she hopes not only to continue fort, and American craftsmanship. the furniture line, but to give it new

His granddaughter, Maia Smilow relevance for a younger generation. HORTON NICOLE PHOTO:

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was a product designer who had gone to working with us as well. He handles every- Parsons and done freelance work for most thing after a sale is made, and I handle of my childhood. When my brother and I everything before that happens. It’s a went to college, she tried to find full-time family business, and not only my grandfa- work but found it really difficult, as an ther’s legacy, but my mom’s as well. It’s the older woman, to get hired. So she decided it most meaningful work I’ve ever done. was the perfect time to launch her own company. It started with glass, which she Is the business different today from designed, and moved into furniture and how it was in Mel’s day? lighting, which were reissues of designs by The pieces were originally meant to be my grandfather. affordable. You could buy a lounge chair for $25 in the 1960s. Even accounting for infla- Did you talk with your mom about tion, that’s a lot less than one costs now taking a larger role in Smilow Design? [$3,460 and up]. When my mom relaunched When I started working with her, I was the brand, she really wanted to stick to doing freelance social marketing. But soon well-made American products. So we had after she got sick, I started to take on some to transition from being an affordable of her work, like bookkeeping, custom brand to a luxury brand, because it’s super orders, working with salespeople, and expensive to manufacture high-quality really just running the business. I loved products in the United States today. My working with her. I think she thought I felt mom would drive down to the factory in obliged, so I made it very clear that it was Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, once a something I was super interested in doing. month to inspect every single item we In the past six months, my dad started made. Now, my dad and I do that instead.

The company was relaunched as credenza (designed in 1950); and a Smilow Design by Maia’s mother, recently reissued Upholstered din- Judy Smilow, in 2013. Starting with ing chair (designed in 1956), which just 10 pieces, the collection has can be customized with choice of grown gradually, but is still tightly wood, finish, and fabric. A closeup edited. Counterclockwise from left: of the chair, done in Spellbound A sketch by Mel of a dresser, from by Luna Textiles, shows the beauty 1948; a newly made Three Door and craftsmanship of its joinery.

“My mom would drive down to the factory in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, once a month to inspect every single item we made. Now, my dad and I do that instead.” MAIA SMILOW SCHOENFELDER PHOTOS: NICOLE HORTON NICOLE PHOTOS:

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“ It was never about my grandfather’s personal brand. It was just, ‘Here, we want you to have these pieces, which are well-priced and will last you a lifetime.’” MAIA SMILOW SCHOENFELDER

Reintroduced in 2017, the Smilow softer side, and a drawing by Lighting Collection, which includes Mel from 1954 shows the popular the Hanging pendant (top left) and Woven Leather lounge (below). Hourglass table lamp (left), exhibits “The archive is wide,” says Maia, the same sculptural quality as the noting that bedside tables and a designer’s furniture. A front view of wood bar cart may be among the the Rail Back sofa (above) reveals its next items the company reissues.

Is it a challenge to keep all production Why do you think Mel isn’t as well Do you often hear from people inter- in the United States? remembered as, say, the Eameses or ested in learning more about him? It can be. When we launched the lighting George Nelson? Vintage dealers reach out to me all the time collection last year, the pieces used these It was never about my grandfather’s per- on Instagram, asking if things are Smilow, tiny birch dowels on the shades. Those sonal brand. It was just, “Here, we want and our business has boosted the name’s were almost impossible to fi nd. There’s you to have these pieces, which are well- value in the vintage marketplace. Yet there one guy in America who supplies dowels priced and will last you a lifetime.” He was are still so many people who reach out at that size. Without him, we would have designing, producing, and selling on his because their parents’ entire house was had no collection. own. He was never partnering with larger furnished in Smilow furniture. They ask if manufacturers or selling out of Blooming- we want to buy it from them, and I say, yes, What’s been the bestselling piece so far? dale’s. Some of the pieces were marked, absolutely, because we have the capability The Woven Rush collection, in general, but many were not, which is a shame. to do all the refi nishing and reupholstery. does really well for us, but the Woven Rush I’d love to eventually have some refi nished bench is our gangbusters item. vintage pieces available, at a lower price point, through an online store. How large is the archive of Mel’s work? There are hundreds of pieces we could What other plans do you have? reissue and, every year, my mom reissued It would be awesome to do a capsule collec- at least a few of them. This year, I think tion with an exciting textile designer. I’d like we’re going to do a bar cart, and poten- to see the Rail Back lounge chair with crazy tially bedside tables as well. There aren’t colored cushions from a designer who many all-wood bar carts similar to the one speaks to a younger crowd. I’d also love to do that we have in the archive. But there’s a collection with a furniture company that also an entire outdoor collection, a maybe uses different materials, but is able recliner collection, and full bedroom sets. to translate our ethos into something more

There’s so much to tap into. affordable. I just haven’t had the time. HORTON NICOLE PHOTOS:

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SHOP NOW: CIRCALIGHTING.COM SPECTICA CHANDELIER IN MATTE BLACK ATLANTA CHARLESTON CHICAGO DC GREENWICH HOUSTON LA MANHATTAN SAN FRANCISCO SAVANNAH 877.762.2323 prefab TEXT BY PHOTOS BY | @BENJAMINRAS In 2014, while recovering from Ray Mark Rinaldi Benjamin Rasmussen a work-related injury, Denver-area firefighter Regan Foster started exploring the idea of shipping containers for a new house he was planning to build. Two years later, he and his wife, Libby, moved into a home made mostly of the giant metal bins, having done much of the work themselves. They share the residence with their year-old daughter, Evie, and Libby’s mother.

Containment Strategy A Colorado firefighter whips nine shipping containers into a home for his extended family—and finds a new calling along the way.

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Making a house out of shipping con- Luckily, Regan Foster likes a challenge. tainers sounds easy enough: Just snap up He’s an extreme DIYer and, until recently, a a few neglected boxes from a local junk firefighter, the kind of guy who is used to dealer, rack ’em and stack ’em, and create working 24-hour shifts and given to start- a bit of old-school prefab magic. ing his day with a plunge into an outdoor But recycling the detritus of global ship- ice bath. The house he designed and built ping has its complications. Like how to with his wife, Libby, located just outside turn corrugated steel boxes that measure the Denver city line in Adams County, har- an awkward eight feet wide and 40 feet nesses nine shipping containers into a The Fosters unwind in the soaring, long into something cozy enough to call 3,840-square-foot structure that’s meant 960-square-foot great room (below). The family wanted plenty home. Or how to keep their metal floors to be shared with friends and neighbors. of space for hosting friends and from vibrating when you walk on them, or “We believe community and family are a events, as well as lots of bedrooms prevent the chemicals they are treated strong part of living a life well-spent,” so they can rent the house to with from being released into the air. Or, Regan says. groups on Airbnb if they like. Many of the corrugated metal walls are perhaps most important, how to assemble In all, the house has seven bedrooms painted black and white, in shades it all so it doesn’t look like you live in and five bathrooms, including an in-law by Benjamin Moore (below right). the storage yard of the local port authority. suite with a separate entrance where

“We believe community and family are a strong part of living a life well-spent.” REGAN FOSTER, RESIDENT

More at Dwell.com Head online to see extra photos and a video of the Fosters’ shipping container home at dwell.com/containment-strategy

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Libby’s mother lives. Four of the containers are placed on the ground—side-by-side in pairs set 24 feet apart—to form the first floor. Another four are stacked above them, some shifted forward, to create a cantilevered second story. The ninth container sits perpendicular at the back of the second level to form a U-shape. The house is enclosed in front with a conventionally framed wall and on top with a flat roof supported by exposed joists. In the voluminous great room, the ceiling rises to 25 feet. The space feels even larger thanks to a sliding glass wall that connects it to the back patio, which Regan outfitted with a grill, a prep countertop, and benches he built using chunks of concrete slab saved from the demolition of a small house that formerly stood on the lot. Regan acted as general contractor and consulted with architect Joe Simmons of BlueSky Studio on the design. “When we first met, he gave me a diagram,” says Simmons. “He pretty much had it all fig- ured out.” In fact, after the project ended and Regan earned his GC license, he retired from the fire department to pursue opportunities in real estate and construction. Together, the pair solved structural questions. Although shipping containers

Regan worked with architect Joe Simmons says. “These are all hard don’t really get an echo. It actu- Simmons and several tradespeople surfaces and you get a bit of rever- ally has a kind of warm sound.” The on the home. “One of the great sur- beration, but the corrugated walls kitchen cabinets are from IKEA and prises is the acoustic environment,” help to disburse sound, so you the full refrigerator is by LG (above).

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ARCHITECT BlueSky Studio LOCATION Adams County, Colorado

A Entrance E Music Room I Mechanical Room M Living/Dining Area B Living Area F Dining Area J Powder Room N Laundry C Bedroom G Kitchen K Media Room O Master Bathroom D Bathroom H Mudroom L Deck P Master Bedroom

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The family dogs, Lola and Nina, “Libby and I were in there with hunt for scraps under a dining table protective headphones just banging that Regan made (left). The sliding away,” he says. “We distressed door is by Milgard. For the master it, stained it, and sanded it down.” bedroom floor (below), Regan The bed is made out of a piece bought plywood panels from Home of wood Regan salvaged from an Depot and turned the wood dis- abandoned bridge. The tub has a tressing process into a family affair. tap by Delta Faucet (bottom).

stack easily and some can handle loads of stained, sealed plywood finish flooring more than of 50,000 pounds, Regan and and installed a heating system beneath. Simmons had to reinforce theirs in places But he was careful not to ruin the where they cut out windows and doors. industrial charm of the containers. The They also reduced vibrations along the inside faces of the exterior walls are length of the containers by welding addi- layered with insulation and drywall, but tional steel plates to the C-channel base many of the interior walls and ceilings structure to make them more rigid. remain exposed, with the painted, corru- Regan, whose resumé includes furniture gated metal showing the inevitable maker, did much of the interior himself. He minor dents accrued during the boxes’ laid the floors in hallways using various previous lives. materials, including recycled barn wood The house and yard are regularly the site and boards he fashioned from a catalpa of social gatherings, and the Fosters tree a friend cut down. He turned a walnut recently hosted an event for CrossPurpose, slab into a sliding door and built a set a nonprofit that supports career training of stairs from parallel strand lumber that for those in need. leads to a cantilevered walkway that runs “Every day a voice in my head says, the length of the second floor. ‘You have one life to live, how are you going To avoid any eventual off-gassing from to live it?’” Regan explains. “So this house the treated wood floors that came with is just another stepping stone in a life full the containers, Regan replaced them with of curiosity and adventure.”

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SAMSUNG small spaces TEXT BY PHOTOS BY @STEPHENKENTJOHNSON Julie Lasky Stephen Kent Johnson Final Edit A pair of magazine creatives condense a lifetime of graphic art and vintage classics— plus children—into a New York apartment.

“We’re not going anywhere,” declares The matchmaker was their friend Luise Stauss, a former photo editor Luise Stauss, a freelance art director, photo Christoph Niemann, an illustrator best at The New York Times Magazine, sits in the living room of the down- editor, and soon-to-be mother of two as known for his New Yorker covers and town Brooklyn apartment she she rubs her six-month baby bump. Despite children’s books. Niemann was born in shares with her husband, Nicholas the tight proportions of her two-bedroom Germany (as was Luise) and lived with Blechman, the creative director Brooklyn apartment, she has no intention his family on the seventh ﬂoor of the of The New Yorker. The roughly of trading up for anything bigger. Breukelen, a 12-story cream-colored build- 1,000-square-foot space feels larger than it is, thanks to high ceil- Fourteen years ago, Luise and her hus- ing on Montague Street. ings and bay windows. Twin 1962 band, Nicholas Blechman, now the creative “I had never really imagined Brooklyn Bastiano sofas by Tobia Scarpa are director of The New Yorker, pulled up stakes Heights as a place I would want to live,” joined by a Cité chair by Jean Prouvé in Williamsburg, when it was still kind of Nicholas says. “I thought it would be off and a wood chair acquired from the New York Historical Society. The edgy, and moved a few miles south to com- limits, especially because it felt so adult.” floor lamp is by David Weeks Studio. paratively comatose Brooklyn Heights. But he and Luise admired Niemann’s They had fallen for a 1948 building small yet nicely proportioned corner designed by architect A. Rollin Caughey. apartment, with its pale parquet ﬂoors

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and light that streamed through original casement windows. On the roof terrace, they found heart-stopping views of New York Harbor and the Lower Manhattan skyline. Leaning into the breeze against the thin metal railing, Luise says, was like standing on the deck of an ocean liner. On phone calls with Niemann, they could hear the groaning horn of the Staten Island Ferry in the background. So they moved in, ﬁrst buying a ninth- ﬂoor one-bedroom unit, and then, in 2008, when their son, Anatole, was six months old, taking over Niemann’s apartment when he relocated to Berlin. Downstairs lived other creative friends, such as the well-known graphic designers Emily Oberman and Paul Sahre, and there was a lot of shoptalk and mutual throwing of dinner parties. Now Luise prepares dinner for her family in the hanky-sized kitchen, which has been remodeled by Jan Greben, a New

The coffee table is a Drum pouf with Clarke. A red Crosley turntable sits wood tray top, both by Softline for on top of a custom shelving unit in Design Within Reach; the yellow the living room (left). The use of throw is by Raf Simons for Kvadrat primary colors, also seen in the yel- (above). On the wall is a silkscreened low Stool 60 by Alvar Aalto, is a nod L’Homme Wiggly poster by Greg to the Bauhaus, says Luise.

“We love the heart of the color wheel. I’m drawn to the yellow ﬁrst—it’s so bright and rich and adds sun to your house—and then it works so well with blue and red.” LUISE STAUSS, RESIDENT

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York–based architect and friend. Her interventions—including updated cabinets, floor tiles, and countertops—were simple but effective. A sea breeze floats through a set of windows above the sink, cooling the cook space. “Even on the hot- test day you can live here without AC,” Luise says. It is easy to impose visual perfection when you’re a minimalist and don’t have to juggle too many objects, but Luise and Nicholas are eclectics with a sentimental streak and many talented friends and family members. They have stuff. Good stuff. In the L-shaped living and dining room, for instance, a classic Saarinen Tulip table and Prouvé chairs mix with ofeat pieces like Tobia Scarpa’s 1962 Bastiano sofa for Knoll and a velvet upholstered daybed custom made by designer Chris Lehrecke with wood the couple selected from his property in upstate New York. The master bedroom is outfitted floor-to-ceiling with a sleek Vitsœ storage and desk system showcasing framed art and robot toys.

In the dining area (above), Anatole Corian counter, IKEA cabinets with and Nicholas sit on vintage Prouvé custom pulls, and geometric floor Standard chairs at a Tulip table by tiles from a collaborative series by Eero Saarinen for Knoll. The enamel Heath and Dwell. The white clay pendant is by Labor and Wait. The Kakomi rice cooker (below right) is kitchen (below left) features a white from Salter House in Brooklyn.

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A Winter Haven in the Rugged West Stone. Wood. Glass. Sky.

Designed for a pair of outdoor enthusiasts, this mountain modern retreat in Big Sky, Montana, uses the very landscape as one of its raw materials. Walls of glass allow the enchanting, snow-blanketed surroundings to cascade into the home. In fact, the residence presents views of three nearby mountain peaks—Lone, Pioneer, and Cedar. “With the layout of the house, with all the windows and doors, we feel like we are living in the view, and we love it,” says homeowner Pam Norton. “Kolbe’s VistaLuxe line has clean proﬁles,” explains architect Jamie Daugaard of Centre Sky Architecture. “The overall opaque edges around windows and doors were less as well, so it allowed for more transparency, more glass.” The expansive window walls also lend lightness to the home. “We pulled away from some of the dark, heavy elements that you see in Southwest Montana,” says builder John Seelye of Big Sky Build, “and brought in refreshing architecture and interior design.” Rustic, modern, and wild at its core, the home accentuates the For more information please visit: beauty of Big Sky country. www.kolbewindows.com

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Some of the couple’s favorite curios Christoph Niemann (below). The Tab are displayed in their shared work- T lamps are by Flos. Even the bedding space, a Vitsœ wall unit (above), adheres to the color scheme, with including a sketch Nicholas drew yellow pillows from Merci in Paris and of his office at The New Yorker and a red blanket from Best Made (left). an illustration of their building by The sconce is by David Weeks Studio.

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In Anatole’s room, a metal Min bed by Luciano Bertoncini for Design Within Reach (left) has storage added underneath it. The desk (above) is actually a shelf by Alvar Aalto for Artek installed upside down; the Stool 60 is also by Aalto. Over the bed hangs a drawing of a “rat race” made for Anatole by Nicholas’s father, cartoonist R.O. Blechman, and a Dodos concert poster by Jason Munn. As for the walls, an abundance of post- Above the desk is a 1970s illustration by Jean-Michel Folon. ers, paintings, photographs, magazine covers, and doodles turn them into giant scrapbook pages. There’s the Pentagram designer Paula Scher’s gift of one of her obsessively labeled silkscreened maps. And a photo of the couple shot early in their relationship by Lee Friedlander. And a depiction of long-tailed rats riding bicy- cles in a “rat race.” Drawn by Nicholas’s Stauss-Blechman Residence N father, the cartoonist and animator R.O. ARCHITECT Jan Greben Architecture Blechman, this work is dedicated to LOCATION Brooklyn, New York Anatole and hangs in his room. The layout makes efﬁ cient use of the A Entrance E Kitchen apartment’s approximately 1,000 square B Foyer F Bathroom feet by dividing it into sections without C Living Room G Bedroom A fragmenting it into shoeboxes. Anatole’s D Dining Room H Master Bedroom room, which is big enough for a digital upright piano and baskets of toys and is decorated in Bauhaus primary colors, is off a stub of a hallway next to the kitchen B F WRIGHT and has a tiny adjacent bathroom. The C + master bedroom and bath are entered from the foyer. And where will they put the new baby? H G “With us at ﬁ rst,” Luise says. Then they’ll D E carve out a piece of Anatole’s room. F

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70 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 DWELL PROMOTION The World’s First Smart Printer Strikes a Pose Good design can be hard to define, but designer Ken Musgrave has an opinion at the ready: “Good design fills a need that’s both pragmatic and emotional. When you create a design that addresses both needs, you’ve hit gold.” Musgrave, head of global customer experience and global experience design at HP, has indeed hit gold with the world’s first smart home printer, the HP Tango. Powered by the HP Smart App and able to seamlessly integrate with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Microsoft Cortana for voice-activated printing, the HP Tango combines superior functionality with high style. With its sleek silhouette and a variety of wraps to choose from, the HP Tango, which is available to purchase at the Apple Store, transcends the office, looking just as chic in the living room or den. From a shipping container residence in Colorado to an eclectic artist’s haven in San Francisco, it even shines in Dwell’s featured homes.

To hear more from Musgrave on how the home ofﬁce is evolving, head to dwell.com/hp-tango.

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Tomas Haeger and Tina Linde’s desire for simple weekend and summer living led STEG Arkitekter to design a multi-volume retreat for the couple on the island of Tjörn. Clad in locally sourced fir, the house perches on pillars directly atop boulders that mark the steep site. “The idea was a place for contem- plation and recharging our batter- ies,” says Tomas.

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A generously proportioned wrap- Dappled sunlight dances on a pathway nearby for their boat and a launch for pad- around porch extends the living/ of wood planks, coaxing visitors up through dleboarding. And they wanted a sea view. dining area (above and opposite), a narrow forest passage. The endpoint is The property they found, a steeply slop- which is sheathed on the inside in marine-grade plywood. Clerestory obscured by a stand of tall pines with ing section of rock looking out over a for- windows tucked beneath the shed swimsuits dangling from their branches. It ested ravine to the 19th-century cast-iron roof bring in even more light. A could be the entrance to a treetop walk or a Pater Noster lighthouse, provided the set- Molded Plywood coffee table by path to a secret swimming hole. ting. Two neighboring houses, a pair of Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller joins a Hans Wegner Getama In a way, it’s both. The passageway leads simple boxes, provided the inspiration. 290 sofa. The Skelder globe light to the retreat that Tomas Haeger, a man- The adjacent residences were designed is by Lars Englund for Källemo; the agement consultant, and Tina Linde, an by STEG Arkitekter, a studio founded by Fox chair by Viggo Boesen and the organizational psychologist, share with Jenny Stening and Karolina Hegen in 2010. Monet chair are from Sika Design. their two children on the island of Tjörn The two had studied together at Chalmers off the west coast of Sweden. The home, University of Technology a decade earlier located within an hour’s drive of their pri- and had then pursued independent archi- mary residence in Gothenburg, is a cross tectural careers in England and the West between a tree house and a beach house. Indies before returning to Sweden. Tomas “We wanted it to look summer, breathe and Tina eagerly enlisted their help, invit- summer, and feel summer,” says Tomas. ing the duo to walk the site with them. Although the Swedish coast is known “They wanted the feeling of being up in for its rustic red cottages, when the couple the treetops and asked that none of the began looking for their summer home, natural landscape around the house be they had in mind something quite differ- disturbed,” says Hegen. ent—a stripped-down modern space with To capture that feeling, the home, built high architectural standards, plus a jetty by Joo Bygg, is set atop pine stilts whose

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“ We didn’t use too many materials, A Cassano fabric drape for Designers Guild runs the yet there’s a feeling of length of the family’s sleeping pavilion (opposite), one reﬁnement and elegance.” of three volumes that make KAROLINA HEGEN, ARCHITECT up the house. Behind it is a storage system by Elfa. The built-in plywood bunks in the children’s room were designed by STEG.

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metal fittings were drilled directly into the Perhaps the most distinctive feature, site’s highest point, a craggy outcropping. though, is the layout: three discrete vol- On the south side, it is elevated nine and a umes joined by breezeways and a sloping half feet above grade. roof and measuring roughly 900 square Another of the couple’s stipulations was feet in total. One unit is for socializing and that the house require minimal upkeep. consists of the kitchen and lounge. Another What the family didn’t want was an ongo- is the family sleeping quarters. The third ing maintenance project. “No landscaping, houses the guestroom and, in classic no paint, nothing that takes time,” says Nordic fashion, a sauna. When the large Tomas. “Since it’s a summer house, it sliding doors between the units are closed, didn’t need much insulation,” adds Hegen, the breezeways can double as covered out- “so we could have thinner walls and a door rooms. A deck runs around the perim- lighter build.” eter, evoking the prow of a ship at one The home’s exterior is clad in treated- end with its elevated vantage point over but-unpainted tongue-and-groove fir the ravine and the water in the distance. planks, and the interior is composed Altogether, the terraces are roughly equal almost entirely of marine-grade plywood, in size to the interiors. “The house has from the built-in beds to the shelving. the same feeling inside and out,” says Tina. Even the shower walls in the bathroom are And when all the doors are open, one plywood. “The inspector thought we were can walk straight through the house from crazy,” says Tomas, with a laugh. “He outside to inside to outside again—90 feet thought at first the builders hadn’t fin- from end to end. Just like the gusts of wind ished the job.” that fly across the island and out to sea.

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In the kitchen (opposite and below can function as outdoor rooms. left), Superfront and IKEA cabi- A platform bed keeps things nets are combined with a concrete simple in the master bedroom counter. The table is from IKEA; (below). “We said that every- the chairs are from IKEA and thing that could be made of Artek. Breezeways connect the wood should be—including retreat’s separate units (left) and the shower stall,” says Tomas.

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An Austrian family embraces a plush ’70s home—complete with sunken living room and indoor pool—in need of a little love.

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80 Haus Wittmann, a lavish 1975 villa in Lower Austria designed by architect Johannes Spalt, was revived by new owners Werner and Catherine Weissmann. The indoor pool was in need of investment. The couple fixed it up while also adding a heating system beneath the limestone Splash tiles and a metal fountain whose curvature echoes the clerestories. Club 54 chairs by Kare play to the 1970s ambience.

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A ribbed copper roof area, a limestone patio Werner Weissmann is drawn to furniture mogul had lived there with his curls over the top of flows into the living audacious works of architecture—style wife from 1975 until he died in 2012. Not the 5,000-square-foot room (opposite). In the and era be damned. The list of unusual long after, the business and home were residence (above), yard, a small pavilion, which previously which resembles a places he’s called home over the years even divided among their six daughters. The belonged to a scion of miniature version of includes a 16th-century castle. So when he house needed a hefty investment for reno- the Austrian furniture the house, offers a came across an ad for a one-of-a-kind vations, including new floors in places and company Wittmann. place to sit and enjoy modernist villa deep in Lower Austria’s extensive electrical work. By then, Atop the enclosed pool the gardens. wine country, right as he was ready to Wittmann’s daughters had homes of their tackle another restoration, he pounced. own, so in the end it was simpler for them Designed by distinguished architect to put it on the market. Johannes Spalt in the mid 1970s, the home Werner and Catherine were drawn to was built for Spalt’s friend and collabora- the purity of Spalt’s architectural vision— tor, handcrafted-furniture manufacturer a 5,000-square-foot space sheltered Franz Wittmann, whose family-owned beneath a vast, curved copper roof. A cen- company, Wittmann, dates to 1896. tral gridded skylight illuminates the “In 2015, Haus Wittmann suddenly sunken, mahogany-clad living room, appeared on the market,” Werner remem- which features a handsome travertine- bers. “We’d always dreamt about renovat- and-steel fireplace at the center. A mahog- ing a house built by a modern architect. any-topped railing runs around a raised For me, it was really love at first sight. gallery, with small bedrooms off to the When you compare all of Spalt’s buildings, side, while the lowest level holds an indoor this is the masterpiece.” swimming pool, guest quarters, a large But despite its magnificence, Werner, walk-in wardrobe, and, in a rare nod to his wife, Catherine, and their teenage Austrian vernacular, a hunting room daughter, Leonie, found the Wittmann decked out in cherry-wood panels where residence rather down at the heels. The the Wittmann clan kept their rifles.

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The sunken living room has a total of four half- is illuminated by an floors, which requires eight-by-eight-foot the family to do a lot More at Dwell.com gridded skylight in of climbing. “It was the copper ceiling modern at the time, Check out a video and extra (opposite). A raised but it’s not practical,” photos of this unusual 1970s U-shaped gallery runs Werner admits. The dwelling in Lower Austria around the space row of paintings is by at dwell.com/making-a-splash (above). The house Leopold Hauer.

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In the master bedroom, bottom). The home has the owners aligned more than a hundred “Vegetable Tree,” a mahogany-framed 1940s wallcovering by windows—many of Josef Frank that was which needed to be reissued by Svenskt updated—sheltered by Tenn, behind a cus- four-foot overhangs tom headboard in the (above and right). same pattern (oppo- Werner worked with site, top). The table, builder Bernhard chairs, and sofa in the Klaffel and some 30 living area belong to tradespeople to renew the Constanze col- the property. The yard lection, which Spalt was replenished with designed for Wittmann help from Baumschule in the 1960s (opposite, Matuschek.

The home is clearly a piece of art—the original inside panes had to be removed he tightened his belt and got started, architect even installed a small pavilion from its wood frame. “Had the mahogany bringing the ventilation and the heating at the back of the garden so it can be been damaged, it would have been the end up to date and calling in an excavator to admired from the comfort of a ban- of the project. You cannot rebuy this hollow out the foundation and replace the quette—but Werner concedes that at wood,” he says. “That’s why it was really pool’s fiberglass shell with a new steel one. times the residence is less than practical. important for us to find workmen we “It was difficult because the task was to “It’s a house without compromises,” he could trust.” The team also dismantled the retain the atmosphere of this space, so we explains, citing its grand but circuitous original 1970s kitchen cabinets, which, had to keep or recreate the whole struc- multilevel layout. after a thorough cleaning, were put back. ture, the lighting, the Italian onyx, every- Werner, who works from home as a con- In funky ’70s fashion, Spalt had covered thing,” he says. sumer analyst, as does Catherine, oversaw some rooms with floral wallcoverings by For Werner and Catherine, the restora- the restoration himself, working alongside famed Austrian designer Josef Frank. tion has been a labor of love. In a country a team of craftspeople and contractors. Werner added even more of the designer’s that has existed in one form or another for For the most part he stuck closely to eye-popping patterns to the walls of the more than a thousand years, homes from Spalt’s designs, although he did gut the master bedroom with help from Svenskt the 1970s—even those as special as Haus master bathroom and add some windows. Tenn, a Swedish company that reproduces Wittmann—are not widely considered to The expanses of mahogany paneling Frank’s work. have the same historical value as, say, a throughout the interior were in excellent The indoor pool proved to be a major castle. “It wasn’t easy to communicate why condition and the exterior needed only a drain on the new owners’ resources. The it was worth putting a lot of effort into the facelift, with Werner returning the drab Wittmanns had used it for some years, but renovation,” says Werner, who has applied, yellow facade to its former white. The win- when it became too troublesome to main- unsuccessfully, for a historical designation dows were another story. “You have to tain, they had it covered. Werner initially from the Federal Monuments Authority. understand, it was a huge risk for us,” says considered demolishing the pool, but he He adds, “Nothing here is typically Werner, explaining that in order to install knew that doing so would unbalance the Austrian. Spalt wanted to create a building insulated glass, each of the home’s 120 entire composition of the home. Instead, where you think and live differently.”

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ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION

A self-taught designer in Nashville rolls up his sleeves to create a home that is midcentury-inspired down to the budget.

TEXT BY PHOTOS BY @PIPPA_DRUMMOND Ryan Burleson Pippa Drummond

88 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 DWELL Influenced by Southern Western red cedar lines California’s Case Study the walkway from the House program, designer carport to the entrance Bob Butler conceived a (opposite). The Globe luminous residence and lights are from West Elm. guest house on a slop- A General Electric stereo ing lot in Nashville that cabinet and a 1950s chair originally held a red- are among the vintage brick ranch-style duplex. pieces in the living room.

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90 A double-sided fireplace Almost everything about Bob Butler’s light-filled home in Decatur, Georgia, he shared with the living Nashville home is unexpected. Its sunken purchased a 1950s ranch and refashioned it room warms the deck on living room, open beams, and carport hark almost entirely by himself, on a “super slim cool evenings (opposite). Bob sited the house and back to the 1950s, yet it’s barely more than budget,” into a low-key modernist haven. strategically placed win- a year old. The breezy, rectilinear resi- His education? Francis D.K. Ching’s dows to take advantage dence transports visitors to midcentury Building Construction Illustrated, YouTube of shade in summer and Hollywood Hills or Palm Springs, though videos, and muscle memory from a handful solar gain in winter. The outdoor seating is from it’s located in a city known for Craftsman of drafting lessons in high school. His pho- IKEA. The sunken living bungalows and the rococo mansions of tographic training didn’t hurt, either. “I felt room features a built-in country stars. Most surprising of all, Bob like I was building a 3-D picture,” he says. sofa and loveseat (above). designed and built it himself, with only The legendary Case Study House Bob sits in the entry a few years experience under his belt and program also made a strong impression courtyard with his dog, Goya (above right). no formal training, and on a budget that on him when he was briefly living in would get the attention of many area Southern California. A series of prototype residents: $115 per square foot. homes commissioned by Arts & “It was difficult to find builders who Architecture magazine between 1945 and wanted to be creative within my budget,” 1966, designed by the likes of Richard he says. So he hired a variety of subcon- Neutra and Eero Saarinen, the Case Study tractors and ended up doing it all. houses were intended to demonstrate that The road that led Bob to architectural the fruits of modernism could be made design was also unexpected. Born in New accessible to America’s booming middle York and raised in Australia, he made his class. Not all the homes were built, but living for many years as a fine art photog- the belief that elegance and economy can rapher. But in 2011, while looking for a coexist remains strong.

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Western red cedar slat bedroom (opposite) panels are paired with a features a vintage Danish pine ceiling and stained teak platform bed from oak cabinets in the Nordisk Andels-Eksport, kitchen. Model Six Stools a Globe pendant from by Jeff Covey for Herman West Elm, and drapes Miller line the concrete from IKEA. The mount counter. The master was a gift from a friend.

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“THIS PROJECT WAS ALL ABOUT PIECING TOGETHER EVERYDAY MATERIALS IN A WAY THAT’S AFFORDABLE.” BOB BUTLER, DESIGNER AND RESIDENT

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After his renovation in Georgia won of the L, and the kitchen and dining area featuring a roof deck, which, because of accolades in the local press, Bob moved to are in the corner. One wing houses an the grade of the site, can be accessed Tennessee to pursue a full-time career as office and bedroom, while the other holds directly from the ground on one side. an architectural designer. He also decided the master bedroom and bath. Bob often enjoys sitting on the home’s to build a new home for himself that While the atmosphere is no-nonsense, wraparound porch in the evening, warmed would push the limits of style and afford- it’s hardly austere. Potted succulents and by the indoor/outdoor fireplace made of ability even further, one that would create cacti fill almost every corner of the interior, cement blocks. (Brick was deemed too a template for future clients. The site he interspersed with Danish chairs and other pricey.) The rear perimeter of the property chose, a three-quarter-acre property in midcentury furnishings. Outside, the post- is lined with trees. Within earshot, there’s East Nashville’s Rosebank neighborhood, and-beam frame extends beyond the a creek. “Before I built a fence in the back, featured another ranch, which he set home’s envelope, creating a grid of dimen- I’d get turkeys coming through,” says Bob, about razing. sional lumber that is “more sculptural than who shares the house with his shepherd Bob started with inexpensive materials. structural,” Bob says. mix, Goya. “Now I have the best of both The 1,750-square-foot structure, consist- Bob also looked to Australia for inspira- worlds—city living and nature.” ing of a single high-ceilinged story, is tion. “A lot of the architecture in the bush As for his second career, that’s going rendered in polished concrete flooring, features lower-pitched roofs,” he notes. well, too. Since establishing his studio, cement-block walls, and stained oak cabi- True to form, the home is topped with a Profile + Principle, in 2014, Bob has under- nets. What few splurges Bob allowed, he subtle hipped section that meets a saw- taken 10 projects with clients and 20 more was careful to offset with other savings. tooth-like roof, allowing sunlight to pour as a developer. “Most modern homes in Many of the large windows, for instance, in through eight-foot-wide clerestories. Nashville are created piecemeal by a group are oriented south with large overhangs The detached guesthouse, finished last of designers, builders, contractors, and to maximize passive heating in winter and spring at a cost per square foot similar to developers,” he says. By overseeing many limit solar gain in summer. that of the house, has three roof compo- of these functions himself, he contends he The home is laid out in an L that has a nents: a flat portion clad in an energy- has a competitive advantage in cost: “I’d limestone-chip courtyard and a efficient TPO membrane; a low-pitched, like people to know that, with ingenuity, Galvalume-topped carport in its nook. The butterfly-shaped section covered in fescue modern living can be achieved on a mod- sunken living room juts out from one arm grass for insulation; and a flat section est budget using everyday materials.”

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An energy-efficient TPO which nestles into a hill. Bob’s office has a teak membrane covers the A George Nelson Cigar wall unit by Sven Ellekaer living room’s zigzag roof wall sconce joins a Crate & for Albert Hansen, a 1960s (opposite). Clockwise Barrel dresser in the master chair by Ib Kofod-Larsen from left: Bob and Goya bedroom. Penny tiles from for Selig, and a vintage walk atop the guesthouse, Daltile line a sunken shower. Nelson Ball clock.

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FORTY YEARS AFTER CREATING A CLUSTER OF UTOPIC VILLAS ON SARDINIA, AN ARCHITECT RETURNS WITH A NEW TEAM TO COMBINE THREE OF THEM INTO A SINGLE RETREAT.

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When Ferdinando Fagnola co- designed a series of avant-garde Brutalist villas on the Sardinian coast in the mid-1970s, he had no idea he would return one day with a group of younger architects to transform a trio of them into one home for new owners. Each villa consists of seemingly discrete, half-buried concrete volumes emerg- ing from the earth. A Spun chair by Thomas Heatherwick for Magis is oriented toward the sea.

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Approaching by land or sea, one could easily miss In a guestroom in Villa 1, an original lamp by Richard Sapper sits on a these three villas on the northeast coast of Sardinia. 1970s bed by Fagnola is paired with custom desk; in the master bath- a new Tab T lamp by Flos and Yves room, oversized windows and an Attuned to the environmental sensitivities of the Klein blue walls (above). Opposite, Agape mirror pull the outside in; the 1970s, when they were designed by Turin architects clockwise from top: Canted asym- master bedroom features a bed by Ferdinando Fagnola and Gianni Francione, they rise metrical ceilings and a mix of Antonio Citterio, Papiro floor lamps almost reluctantly from the earth, their Brutalist concrete, steel, and iroko wood by Sergio Calatroni, and a Diamond Awedges half-rooted and dispersed, woolly with define the main living area; a Tizio chair by Harry Bertoia for Knoll. shrubs. This spring, four decades after the villas were built, Fagnola returned to the island, joined by a team of younger architects from another Turin studio, PAT., to finish off a series of restorations—ranging Villas in Sardinia: The North Villa N from a fresh color palette to adding new bedrooms— ARCHITECTS LOCATION commissioned by the current owners. The result is a Ferdinando Fagnola + PAT. Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy single vision refined and elaborated on by two genera- tions of designers: environmentally committed, aes- A Living Room thetically bold, and built to foster a quasi-communal B Office C Bedroom lifestyle. “New forces bring new ideas,” Fagnola says. D Lounge “I was happy to see architecture I did forty years ago E Patio rejuvenated by young blood.” F Laundry G Kitchen In 1975, the scion of one of Italy’s wealthy industri- H Dining Room alist families commissioned Fagnola and Francione to develop five sculptural villas near the sea on the famed Costa Smeralda. But halfway through, financial pressure led him to sell their naked structures to individual buyers, who finished the construction A B C themselves. The results varied and often broke with H D the architects’ intent. One villa was subdivided into C E multiple units and covered in granite, for instance. G WRIGHT

Fast forward to 2011, when a new pair of owners + C scooped up three of the villas and nine acres of land. Eager to realize the original architectural vision, they CCC F invited Fagnola to restore, modernize, and unify them C into a single retreat. Francione had moved to Bali in the intervening years, but Fagnola was still in Turin,

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The structures are sprawling yet largely imperceptible. Like its coun- terparts, Villa —containing guest bedrooms, a spa, and a network of outdoor havens—extends into the hill- side, cloaked in energy-saving green roofs. The new landscaping cuts water usage on the property by 70 percent compared to previous levels.

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“FOR US, THE ENVIRONMENT WAS PARAMOUNT. WE WANTED THE VILLAS TO DISAPPEAR.” FERDINANDO FAGNOLA, ARCHITECT

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Villas in Sardinia: The South Villa N It was a unique opportunity for the 12-year-old firm ARCHITECTS LOCATION to put some ideas of the counterculture back into play, Ferdinando Fagnola + PAT. Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy says PAT. architect Andrea Veglia. “In the ’70s, the radical utopian visions of the late ’60s had begun to leave A Dining Area E Patio I Living Room some disenchanted,” he says—but not Fagnola and B Mechanical Room F Snow Room J Service Building Francione. “When we first visited the villas, we found C Massage Area G Sauna an almost forgotten example of an architecture that D Turkish Bath H Bedroom was able to incarnate those radical ideas in convincing and powerful ways,” Veglia recalls, citing the villas’ total lack of nostalgia for Italian traditions. H H The team, which called itself F+P, set out to inte- J H grate the three structures for the new owners, who have five children and wanted to be able to host large groups for extended stays. The home’s functions are E G H now dispersed over all the buildings—angular steel C F I H and concrete structures clad in iroko and cedar—and, B D in between them, in shared open-air spaces. A H H Under the new layout, each building includes guest A quarters and a pool (overall the resort-like complex can accommodate up to about 30 people), with Villa 1 containing the owners’ rooms. A spacious patio built partly into the earth outside Villa 2, along with the vaulted living room in Villa 1, form the social core of a compound whose design is intended to encourage a sense of community. And because private areas can be accessed only through public space, and not all the private spaces have kitchens, guests congregate naturally in common areas for meals and activities. Villa 3 even has a Montessori-inspired playroom WRIGHT where kids can paint, model clay, or, just outside, fol- + low a rope bridge suspended in the trees. Villa 2 is a kind of playroom for grown-ups, dominated by a spa and a Turkish bath. The building is newly bisected by a walkway that unites the three structures, a straight path that the team calls the project’s “urban axis.”

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102 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 DWELL A new basalt walkway with iroko steel door with a rebar handle decking glides between a waterfall (above). The sheltered courtyard cascading off Villa 2 and a pool with (left), known as the “piazzetta,” is a squiggly steps (top). All across the favorite gathering spot. The swanky property, blocks of jewel-toned mid-pool conversation pit (oppo- color meet raw materials, like a hot site) was added by the new owners pink concrete wall next to a Cor-Ten during the renovation.

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Villa 3, seen here, is newly connected to Villa 1 by a series of stairs and walkways. At the request of one of the new owners, who had previously established a Montessori school, it includes an educational playroom for kids. Like the other villas, it also features guest quarters and a pool.

104 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 DWELL T3HE EAST VILLA “THE FACT THAT IT IS NOT EASY TO TELL WHO DID WHAT IS A TESTAMENT TO THE FACT THAT ARCHITECTURE IS A COMPLEX AND COLLABORATIVE EFFORT.” ANDREA VEGLIA, ARCHITECT

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Villas in Sardinia: The East Villa N not have occurred to him 40 years ago, but it turned ARCHITECTS LOCATION out to be a “brilliant” way to resolve the distribution Ferdinando Fagnola + PAT. Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy of functions. In many ways, the villas were ahead of their time in A Playroom their emphasis on sustainability, a term that was just B Bedroom coming into broad use when they were built. “In Italy, C Pantry 1968 was a defi ning moment for the architect, who D Kitchen E Outdoor Dining was not an artist anymore, but someone who works in F Living Room D E G Dining Area society,” Fagnola recalls. “The message was that C respect for the environment was a paramount value F B for society, and this became the basis for our work in Sardinia.” From the start, Fagnola and Francione G embraced passive design measures, like tucking the B buildings partly underground and using low-mainte- A nance materials like turf, wood, steel, and exposed concrete. Today, new eco-conscious landscaping— smaller lawn areas, native Mediterranean scrub, and roofs furry with grass-like weeds—takes this principle further, reducing water consumption by 70 percent compared to prior levels. The team also updated the villas by adding high-effi ciency mechanical systems, thermal insulation, electronically controlled sunscreens, and low-emission glazing, which earned the project Italy’s highest possible energy rating. The interiors are grand yet inviting. High-ceilinged rooms have a sculptural modern look, while walls cant inward in some normal-height rooms. Furniture from Knoll, Paola Lenti, and Living Divani coexists beside custom pieces, restored from the 1970s or newly designed. The renovation linked certain mate- The communal area of Villa 3 (below was updated as part of a broader rials to certain functions: cork for living room fl oors and opposite, top) features slat- landscape renovation. The roofs ted iroko walls, a modular sofa by are planted with rosemary, myrtus, and children’s rooms but carpet for others; mosaic Piero Lissoni for Living Divani, and a westringia, and more (opposite, tiles and Corian for the kids’ baths, wood and stone coffee table by Studio Guscetti for bottom left). “The way these villas for the adults’. The team also introduced basalt to the Fioroni; the patio dining chairs are blend with the environment gives spa’s material palette. “Basalt has a link to an old, by Dedon and the iroko wood table a taste of what sensitive coastal noble Sardinian building tradition, from Romanesque is custom. Outside, the limestone- development could be,” says PAT. encircled pool (opposite, right) architect Andrea Veglia. churches to the Nuragic architecture of the Bronze Age,” says Veglia. “It seemed a perfect fi t in this project, which veers away from the Mediterranean vernacular and its romantic use of pink granite.” That said, the PAT. team did add color as a counter- point to the existing neutral tones of earthy concrete, grainy wood, and metal beams. “For [Francione and me], the environment was paramount—we wanted the villas to disappear,” Fagnola explains. “I had spent my life looking for the right shade of gray, and suddenly, when they said, ‘Let’s make this wall pink,’ it was a cultural shift.” Spaces inside and out now feature emphatic blocks of color: hot pink painted concrete, aubergine plastered walls, triangular teal paneling, and baths tiled in lilac, blue, scarlet, and yellow. Some reference palettes used by architects Luis Barragán and Le Corbusier. Fagnola, warming to the idea, even surprised the team with an Yves Klein blue guest room. At fi rst glance, it is tempting to attribute the more far-out features—certain colors, a conversation pit in the middle of a pool, an outdoor cinema—to maxi- malist 1970s tastes, but these were new additions. “The fact that it is not easy to tell who did what,” Veglia says, “is a testament to the fact that architecture is a complex and collaborative effort.”

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Condo Maximum Going from West Coast to East Coast and custom to spec, a couple ask a design team to individualize their standard-issue Brooklyn apartment.

Design firm Dash Marshall worked with Structure NYC to customize When Rachel Klauber-Speiden and Josh in New York City was a different beast, a spec apartment on the Brooklyn Empson moved from Santa Monica to New with fewer opportunities for a single- waterfront for Rachel Klauber- York for Josh’s job in ﬁnance, they weren’t family home, they looked for an apartment Speiden and Josh Empson. Built-ins, just changing cities—they were also giving instead and found a new condominium multiuse spaces, and clever design details give the couple the flexibility up their modernist dream home, one they at the edge of the East River in the Dumbo and personalization they sought. and an architect had designed and built neighborhood of Brooklyn. Their 2,600- The closet wallpaper is Nuvole from from scratch. Well aware that real estate square-foot three-bedroom unit, which Cole & Son’s Fornasetti collection.

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“In California there’s so much space. Here it was, ‘How can we use each space multiple ways?’” RACHEL KLAUBERSPEIDEN, RESIDENT

For the couple’s shared office, there’s a tucked-in bed for reading which is windowless, the team or relaxing (above). “The idea behind installed backlit panels to give the the office was figuring out three illusion of daylight entering the tiers,” explains Rachel, “rest, casual, room (left). In addition to a desk, and full-on work mode.”

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A Entrance D Bedroom G Living/Dining Area J Master Bathroom B Office E Flex Space H Master Bedroom K Mechanical Room F Kitchen L Powder Room they bought in 2016, offered sunny views C Bathroom I Walk-in Closet over a park and across the river to Lower Manhattan. The only problem was that the A developer offered a cookie-cutter interior L B with almost no options for personalization. H J “Having had a custom house, it was a I C little hard to go spec,” says Rachel. “I really K didn’t want to feel like I was living in a C generic unit.” Looking to make the space their own, but without a gut remodel, they called on G F D D the architectural design ﬁrm Dash E Marshall, which had recently completed a friend’s renovation that they admired.

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The light-filled living room (above), with its view of the Manhattan Bridge, gets extra wattage from an Anglepoise Giant lamp. A pair of Talma armchairs by Moroso face a walnut coffee table designed by Dash Marshall and constructed by Harlem Built. The daybed was also fabricated by Harlem Built, from a drawing by Rachel.

The media/guestroom is encased For their apartment Dash Marshall devel- enormous oak and ribbed glass doors and in white oak shelving and features oped a series of elaborate built-ins that built-in shelving—when open, the arrange- a large translucent glass window fundamentally changed the character of ment functions as an extension of the (above). When it’s open, the room connects visually to the kitchen. the space. “The idea was to take this living space; when closed, it serves as a The stools and dining table are by unit and upgrade it,” says Ritchie Yao, who cozy guestroom. Harlem Built; the Eames Molded runs Dash Marshall along with Amy Yang In the bedroom for the couple’s son, Plastic chairs add a touch of color. and Bryan Boyer. now 11, Dash Marshall added cabinets WRIGHT

+ “Like ‘Pimp My Ride,’” notes Yang. resembling stacked boxes for storage and With custom millwork built by Structure a platform for his bed. Along the wall that NYC, they added a wall of overlapping oak separates his room from his 13-year-old ﬁns with oversized integrated pegboards sister’s, the designers created interlocking for hanging coats in the entrance hall. At nooks for side-by-side, but separate, one end of the main living area, they cre- desks for the siblings, who can lift tiny

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“The kids’ rooms have a ‘confessional talking window’ between them. We almost always propose weird stuff like that, but it doesn’t always get built.” BRYAN BOYER, DESIGNER

What child doesn’t love passing boy’s room, Dash Marshall designed didn’t want them to look like built- secret messages? Josh and Rachel’s a platform bed and multiple storage ins,” says firm principal Ritchie Yao. young son and daughter can do just units, accented with red lacquer and “They’re more like stacked boxes.” that through the peephole between arranged in a playful way (above The rug is by Flor and the Real their bedrooms (above left). In the right). “They’re built-ins, but we Good chair is by Blu Dot (below).

conspire. Josh and Rachel’s interior windowless ofﬁce now has backlit glass panels and is furnished with both a daybed nook for a casual work space and a more formal desk. The result is an apartment that not only appears dramatically different from others in the building, but also gives the family an expanded sense of space. “The things they designed for us we use every day,” says Rachel, “multiple times and in multiple ways.”

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Artist Christopher Florentino says pendant hovers over Eames clas- his respect for Gene Leedy drove sics, like an LCW chair, a Molded his update of the architect’s 1963 Fiberglass armchair, and a Molded Ellison Residence in central Florida: Plywood coffee table. Christopher “Being original is important to me. found the lounge, an Eames replica, I don’t want Gene Leedy to come in a dumpster and couldn’t let it go here and be like, #Damn, you killed to waste. A Warhol print hangs from my vision.’” In the living room, the sandstone block wall; the Ekko George Nelson’s Saucer Bubble mobile is by Matthew Richards.

Artist in Residence Pop Art, street art, and Space Age furniture collide at a painter’s midcentury ranch in Florida.

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The living area’s Chicklet sofa by Ray Wilkes is covered in a Knoll tweed (left). Beneath a work from Christopher’s “Something Modern” series sits a record player once owned by his grandfather, which Christopher retrofitted with a Bluetooth speaker (above). A vintage Robie Junior robot vacuum sits atop a modern-day auto- mated floor cleaner. In the master bedroom, the dresser and the bedside tables are by American of Martinsville (opposite, top). An Eames La Chaise lounge occupies a spot near the sliding glass doors.

Most people buy furniture for their In June, he closed on the house without house. Christopher Florentino, aka Flore, having stepped inside. Here, he takes us bought a house for his furniture. The through his first few months living there. Brooklyn-born painter, whose work draws on graffiti and street art, has had a life- Christopher Florentino: I’ve been drawn long obsession with midcentury modern, to midcentury modern design since I was amassing furniture from the period since young—the lines, the materials, the colors. he was a teen. His collection finally found I started collecting furniture when I was 16, a home when he discovered a Gene Leedy– and I needed a showcase for all my pieces. designed 1963 ranch house in Winter The way Leedy designed this house is Haven, Florida, on Instagram. pretty cool. If I’m standing on one side of Leedy, a founding member of the the house I can see all the way through to Sarasota School of Architecture, fostered the other wall. It’s so open. Everything is a regional Gulf Coast twist on modernism, completely symmetrical, and everything defined by courtyards, local sandstone, has access to the outside. The whole back glass walls, and bringing the outdoors in. wall is glass, and at night, when you’re It was these features, combined with the looking from the pool into the house, it home’s pristine condition, that made the looks so big. It’s very Frank Sinatra. Ellison Residence, as it’s known, the ideal The house is all original: cabinets, habitat for Christopher and his furniture. doors, walls, fixtures, hardware, the cork

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Christopher found the 1962 Custom The side-by-side bathrooms look When Christopher spotted a limited- Some 2,400 square feet of artificial Imperial Flair combo oven-stove by out on a private courtyard through edition polka-dot version of George grass provide a maintenance-free Frigidaire/General Motors in perfect floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors. Nelson’s 1956 sofa on Craigslist, he landscape for most of the home’s working order when he moved in—it They feature original tile in the called the seller and offered her exterior spaces, including its two just needed new burners. The eye- sunken showers—one in butter yel- $1,000 on the spot. “She said, #If enclosed courtyards. At close to $14 level dual ovens are fitted with glass low, the other in light gray. “The tiles you can be here in fifteen minutes, a square foot, it was a pricey proposi- doors that open vertically—a bit like are heavy, real chunky, and of the it’s yours,’” he recalls. Apparently, tion, but Christopher wanted to the gullwing doors on a DeLorean— period,” says Christopher. He had she was really ready to get rid of it. embrace Leedy’s indoor/outdoor while the burners hide in a sliding them completely restored, working “As soon as I got there, she pushed concept by leaving the doors open as drawer. With its Howard Miller– alongside the tilers and filling cracks it down the stairs,” he says. He had it much as possible, which would be inspired clock and cursive labeling, with a porcelain paint pen for two reupholstered in Alexander Girard’s less pleasant with grass clippings and the Flair was the “it” stove of the days straight. “For something from “Double Triangles” fabric, which, at dirt blowing in. “It cost a fortune, but ’60s, seen in the kitchen of Samantha 1963, they’re really in immaculate $1,400 for the total yardage, cost it was worth it,” he says. “I can watch and Darrin Stephens on Bewitched. shape,” he says. more than the sofa itself. TV from my backyard.”

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Leedy’s signature precast double- (above) is mostly original, with T concrete beams create overhangs new grasscloth paper covering the (left). Christopher furnished the formerly white walls. Christopher, patio with a red GN2 lounge chair known professionally as Flore, by Peter Ghyczy and Maya chairs surveys a painting in his garage from CB2. The master bathroom turned studio (bottom).

ﬂooring. I did some renovations, but it was mainly polishing. I have the original stove and I make eggs on it every morning. I curated the space as if in 1963 there was an artist who went out and purchased all brand-new furniture by designers like the Eameses, Alexander Girard, and every single person who worked under the Herman Miller brand. I look at everything like a painting. I wanted the house to be a palette dominated by primary colors, like a Picasso or a Miró. Keeping that palette very “period” Ellison Residence N was just as important as the pieces I chose. Everything is color-blocked. I have an ARCHITECT Gene Leedy LOCATION Winter Haven, Florida orange Knoll Womb chair next to a blue Ray Wilkes Chicklet sofa, a yellow velvet

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An Eames lounge chair covered in Alexander Girard fabric from Maharam sits near a Girard Model 108 coffee table for Knoll (right). The floor tiles are marble. A Jeff Koons lobster joins a float by the artist KAWS in the pool (below).

Nelson Coconut chair, a yellow Andy Warhol “Flowers 1967” rug. I’d been hound- Warhol flower print on one wall and a red ing this lady forever about it. She finally one on the opposite wall. emailed me, “Listen, you’re the most I source pieces mainly on the internet— annoying-est young man I’ve ever met in eBay, Craigslist, 1stDibs. I get pretty cre- my life. I will sell you the rug for $450.” ative. There was this lady selling a mirror You’ve got to be super annoying, but on eBay and I saw, in the corner of the polite, because this is their holy grail. photo she posted, an Eames “suroard” They’ve held on to it for so long and now table in the reflection. I emailed her and they’re finally ready to sell it. said, “I’ll give you $600 for the table right Now that I have this house, I send now—I’m sending an Uber to your house.” photos of it to sellers, saying, “Look where If you can find a great upholsterer, you it’s going to go. You have it in a warehouse, can bring pieces back to life. I found a but I’m going to sit on it. It’s going to be reproduction Eames lounge chair outside among friends, in a house.” an apartment building in Miami. It was Living here is like living in a piece of art. upside down in the trash and in bad I find myself walking around a lot, sitting shape, but I was like “I can’t walk past in different rooms, experiencing the light this.” I had an Uber XL pick me up in the in each one. The shadows that the roof alleyway and I threw it in the back. I took casts when the sun is going down, the way it all apart, polished it, sanded it, and had the rain draining off it sounds like water- More at Dwell.com it upholstered in yellow velvet. Now it’s falls—all these little components that Find a video and extra photos of pretty sweet. went into building it are special to me. Christopher Florentino’s refreshed Collecting is sometimes about luck, but When you wake up every day in a place midcentury modern home at mainly about persistence. In the kitchen I where you have to live and create, why not dwell.com/artist-in-residence have an original, limited-edition Andy make it somewhere special?

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pendants House salter.house and dining chairs from westelm.com; safari Pool and spa by Sainte for Fioroni by Regan Foster 68 606 Universal IKEA ikea.com; chair chair by Kai Lyngfeldt Claire fioronidesign.it; fosterdesigndenver.com Shelving Unit by Dieter by Alvar Aalto for Artek Larsen for Bovirke, 97 Spun chair by outdoor couches by 60 Dining table, bed, Rams for Vitsœ, vitsoe artek.fi; stove by vintage; stereo cabinet Thomas Heatherwick for Rodolfo Dordoni and chandelier .com; paper flower by Nordpeis nordpeis.se by General Electric, Magis magisdesign.com for Kettal kettal.com by Regan Foster John Derian johnderian 76 Drape by Cassano vintage 98 Bed by Ferdinando fosterdesigndenver .com; Tab table lamp by fabric for Designers 90 Chairs and table Fagnola, vintage; Tab 110 Condo Maximum .com; faucet by Delta Edward Barber and Guild designersguild from IKEA ikea.com table lamp by Edward deltafaucet.com; Jay Oserby for Flos flos .com 91 Custom sofa by Barber and Jay Oserby Dash Marshall bathtub by Maax INC .com; 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PHOTO BY | @MICHAELFRIBERG Michael Friberg For 20 years, Los Angeles designer and professor Jennifer Siegal has been pushing the limits of modular housing through her firm OMD, most recently with a series of prefab accessory dwelling units just released this fall. Here, she shares the story of a knickknack that she always keeps nearby.

A tiny wind-up toy keeps prefab proponent Jennifer Siegal’s mind on mobility.

I founded my design flying cars, ran a mobile the use of intelligent, record-breaking sales firm, Office of Mobile candy store, and broke kinetic, lightweight day came at a Grateful Design, in 1**8 to work my knee while riding materials. Today the Dead concert. I ran out on transportable and my bike down a hill in whirling toy reminds me of dogs and made do demountable environ- front of my house with of when I owned and with mustard, sauer- ments—what many peo- roller skates on. It’s in operated a hot dog cart kraut, and buns. But ple refer to as prefab or my blood. while putting myself most of all, the toy container homes. Ever On a shelf in my office through graduate school reminds me that joy can since I can remember, sits a wind-up metal at SCI-Arc. (I followed be found in simplicity I’ve been fascinated with robot-vendor toy, a gift in the footsteps of my and through living mobility. As a child, I I received when I was a maternal grandfather, lighter on the land, turned wood blocks and Loeb Fellow at Harvard. I who had a hotdog cart which remains Hot Wheels into cities of spent that year exploring on Coney Island.) My my true life’s work.

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