Kim Sargent
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Photo: Caroline Sharpnack © 2017 Houzz
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Rather than starting with an outcome in mind, this 1,400 square foot residence began from a polemic place - exploring shared conviction regarding the concentrated power of living with a smaller footprint. From the gabled silhouette to passive ventilation, the home captures the nostalgia for the past with the sustainable practices of the future. While the exterior materials contrast a calm, minimal palette with the sleek lines of the gabled silhouette, the interior spaces embody a playful, artistic spirit. From the hand painted De Gournay wallpaper in the master bath to the rugged texture of the over-grouted limestone and Portuguese cobblestones, the home is an experience that encapsulates the unexpected and the timeless.

Located within a residential building, the design intention for this terrace was to create a visual and experiential escape from the city with a four-season garden. A full-width wall of bamboo was planted to break the monotony of the existing fence, create an ambiguous visual depth and generate a soothing rustling sound. Furnishings, including the rubbed stainless steel storage bench and planters, were carefully selected to complement the year-round vegetation.

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The shutters are custom painted in Black Fox by Sherwin Williams to match the trim throughout the large space. A high-gloss finish was used to reflect light and is an ambiguous black/brown/charcoal color that pairs perfectly with the granite of the bar and game table and chairs by Lorts Furniture. Although a collector of fine art, the homeowner had an ingenious idea of framing their favorite CD covers to show off their taste in music. Designed by Melodie Durham of Durham Designs & Consulting, LLC. Photo by Livengood Photographs [www.livengoodphotographs.com/design].

Question: What is more luxurious than a view of the sea? Answer: A private view of the sea. This pool pavilion on the western coast of Quepos in Costa Rica achieves that level of luxury without imposing walls or gates. Instead, it builds toward it slowly and stealthily. Access to the view is not grand, just purposefully nondescript, offering a supremely unassuming gap in a wood-framed screen as an ambiguous point of entry. Once in, however, we discover it conceals a lush secret garden to the left. On the right, a translucent glass wall further delays the main event. As we come around it and enter into a living-dining room with a small kitchen and bath, we see a pool bordered on two sides by the concrete exterior walls of the pavilion, its watery ripples disappearing over an infinity edge that directs the eye, finally, to one’s own personal perspective on the seascape beyond. Architect: John Beckmann © Axis Mundi Design LLC

Midnight and Tiger Charwood™ were intentionally selected for a distinctive natural interior and exterior envelope on this secluded cabin retreat. The divergent char colors of this shou sugi ban inspired product instills a stunning contrastive aesthetic that flows naturally with the beauty that surrounds it. The line between inside and outside is ambiguous, allowing a cozy inside feel while surrounded by a striking mountainscape.

Question: What is more luxurious than a view of the sea? Answer: A private view of the sea. This pool pavilion on the western coast of Quepos in Costa Rica achieves that level of luxury without imposing walls or gates. Instead, it builds toward it slowly and stealthily. Access to the view is not grand, just purposefully nondescript, offering a supremely unassuming gap in a wood-framed screen as an ambiguous point of entry. Once in, however, we discover it conceals a lush secret garden to the left. On the right, a translucent glass wall further delays the main event. As we come around it and enter into a living-dining room with a small kitchen and bath, we see a pool bordered on two sides by the concrete exterior walls of the pavilion, its watery ripples disappearing over an infinity edge that directs the eye, finally, to one’s own personal perspective on the seascape beyond. Architect: John Beckmann © Axis Mundi Design LLC

Located within a residential building, the design intention for this terrace was to create a visual and experiential escape from the city with a four-season garden. A full-width wall of bamboo was planted to break the monotony of the existing fence, create an ambiguous visual depth and generate a soothing rustling sound. Furnishings, including the rubbed stainless steel storage bench and planters, were carefully selected to complement the year-round vegetation.

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**I. Spatial Composition & Architectural Volume** This powder room operates as a compressed, processional vestibule — a jewel-box volume whose narrowness is deliberately weaponized to intensify the encounter with a single focal event. The plan reads as a tight rectilinear corridor, entered obliquely past a pivoting sculptural door leaf at the left foreground, with the sightline funnelling directly to a recessed alcove at the terminal wall. That alcove is the compositional engine of the room: a deep, orthogonal reveal framed in slender blackened-metal profiles, within which a monolithic marble vanity cantilevers as a full-width plinth, its shadow-gap plinth detail dissolving the mass into apparent levitation. The full-height glazed screens flanking both side walls — divided into a disciplined grid of stile-and-rail metal mullions above a stone dado — introduce a Miesian rhythm of verticals that visually widen the space while preserving enclosure. Above, a crisp plaster soffit with a razor-thin perimeter reveal caps the volume, while the mullion grid's continuation across the ceiling plane and door surround creates a cage-like armature, an architectural drawing rendered in three dimensions. The suspended, wall-hung water closet at left is deliberately subordinated, half-concealed by the stone return, ensuring the axial procession terminates not on plumbing but on art. **II. Materiality, Color & Texture** The material palette is orchestrated as a controlled dialogue between the geologic, the vegetal, and the metallic. Book-matched Calacatta Viola — or a closely related Paonazzo — sheathes the dado and vanity in slabs whose oxblood, umber, and graphite veining reads as gestural brushwork, its cool bone-white ground counterweighted by the warm ferrous rust of its fissures; the veining on the right-hand wall is sequenced to cascade, treating stone as a continuous painterly field rather than a modular cladding. Against this, the foreground door presents a deeply carved, three-dimensional sculpted timber relief in a mid-tone oak or walnut, its undulating, plaited chevron texture introducing a haptic, almost textile-like tactility that provides the composition's most overtly artisanal register. The glazed screens deploy reeded or fluted glass in a smoky sage-olive cast, their striations diffusing and abstracting whatever lies beyond into vertical striae of light — a translucent counterpoint to the opacity of stone and wood. Blackened bronze or patinated steel mullions supply the graphic scaffolding, while unlacquered brass appears as accent punctuation: the gooseneck spout with exposed swivel collar, and, most emphatically, the flame-patinated bronze oval of the mirror frame, whose molten amber bloom is the single high-saturation event in an otherwise desaturated envelope of greys, greiges, and bone. Underfoot, chevron-laid oak parquet in a soft tobacco stain grounds the palette and repeats the door's zigzag geometry at a domestic scale. **III. Lighting, Atmosphere & Style Profile** Lighting is handled with theatrical restraint and a distinctly museological logic. The terminal alcove is backlit by a full-height plane of sheer, pinch-pleated linen sheers washed with daylight — an ambiguous, screened luminance that functions as a lightbox, silhouetting the mirror and reading as a window without conceding a view. Concealed cove or perimeter LED at the soffit reveal lifts the ceiling and grazes the plaster, while the reeded glass side screens capture and refract borrowed light along their flutes, producing a soft vertical shimmer that keeps the narrow volume from collapsing into gloom. The lower register is intentionally darker, the recessed shadow gap beneath the vanity and the bronze toe detail anchoring the composition in a low-key, chiaroscuro base. The atmosphere is hushed, contemplative, and faintly ecclesiastical — the alcove operating as a reredos, the framed portrait glimpsed in the mirror's reflection functioning as an unexpected, wry apparition that injects narrative and humor into an otherwise austere scheme. Stylistically, the room synthesizes into what might be termed *Tactile Luxe Modernism* or Refined Warm Modernism: the structural clarity and metal-gridded transparency of mid-century International Style, tempered by Italian post-war sensuality in the bronze and marble, and finally humanized by contemporary craft-forward texture. The result is a space of considerable discipline that nonetheless privileges touch, patina, and surprise over minimalist abstinence.

Sean Fennessy
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