What's the secret to these homes' charm? A generous blend of varied surfaces, textures, and materials.
Furniture designer Alejandro Sticotti's Buenos Aires home features a kitchen equipped with buffed concrete floors, chrome globe lights, a marble-topped wooden table, and a fleet of Bertoia chairs.
The dining room of a family house in London features a terra cotta "carpet" of turquoise and green cement tiles that rests beneath a table made of wood sourced from a school science laboratory. The nearby kitchen island is a mahogany museum display case now topped with salvaged iroko hardwood and adapted to hold a sink and washer.
A San Francisco apartment in a converted garage features original raw concrete walls tempered by blackened steel, white-oak flooring, and bush-hammered Carrara marble.
After living in her childhood home in rural Pennsylvania for seven years, Eve Metzger and her husband, architect Michael Metzger, decided to give it a loving update. The original brick fireplace remained in the living room and the floor was resurfaced with fence boards that had penned in horses when Metzger was a child. Meanwhile, the staircase's angled steel beams and stainless steel cables create a visual transition from the cozy first-level to the more modern second-floor.
Nicknamed the "Scrap House," metal broker S.J. Sherbanuk's Ontario home is covered in galvanized-steel siding, and features interior walls made of the same material. The dining room features concrete flooring and a Douglas fir table cut from planks found in the Toronto warehouse of a forestry company.
Suzanne and Sergio Feld renovated their previously dark and cramped kitchen in the style of a neighborhood bistro. The new kitchen is laced with industrial touches like laboratory faucets, glass pendant lamps, and stainless steel appliances. Warmer materials balance the atmosphere: a fireclay farm sink made in England, fir floors, Carrara marble counters, walnut shelving, and an old English butcher's block.
Furniture designer Alejandro Sticotti's Buenos Aires home features a kitchen equipped with buffed concrete floors, chrome globe lights, a marble-topped wooden table, and a fleet of Bertoia chairs.
Docomomo US announces the winners of this year's Modernism in America Awards. Each project showcases exemplary modern restoration techniques, practices, and ideas.
Today, we kicked off this year’s annual Dwell on Design at the LA Convention Center, which will continue through Sunday, June 26th. Though we’ve been hosting this extensive event for years, this time around is particularly special.
By straightening angles, installing windows, and adding vertical accents, architect Aaron Ritenour brought light and order to an irregularly shaped apartment in the heart of Athens, Greece.
From the bones of a neglected farmstead in rural Scotland emerges a low-impact, solar-powered home that’s all about working with what was already there.
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