Innholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2019 i Dwell

An entire Jurassic scenario of plastic dinosaurs. @gennyland on Instagram Sweetgrass coasters, a midcentury modern decor book, and usually a lovely white cat sipping whatever I rest on one of the coasters. Alison Rhodes on Facebook The newspaper, too many remotes, pepper spray, old tape cassettes, a dot art project, and beer. Tina Leonard on Facebook A rubber-band ball that I started in college (7 inches in diameter and counting), a vintage Royal Aristocrat typewriter with a sentence typed each day, and two rabbit figurines. @creativecurrents design on Instagram A 1964 Camaro camshaft and a coffee tin full of Krugerrands and bottle caps. Charlie Trefry on Facebook Books I would like to read but never will and four old bedsprings that have been turned into candleholders. @brynkarlberg on Instagram We’ve…

“An outdoor kitchen is more of an entertaining space. Everyone can hang out there. I like to cook as I go—make a little and put it out‚ let people eat‚ then make some more. There’s something nice and casual and fun about it. When my husband and I bought our house in Chicago‚ we built an outdoor kitchen before we even bought a couch. Our backyard is decorated with a lot of plants and meant to be a bit of an oasis‚ so cooking there never feels like a chore. If it’s a weekday dinner‚ it feels even more special.” Executive Chef‚ Girl & the Goat‚ Chicago…

The Mediterranean country house is an architectural tradition that unites Europeans beyond national borders and across social classes. The French maintain them in Provence, and the Spanish in Catalonia—where the name for such houses is mas—havens for city dwellers seeking downtime near the balmy coast. The rich have them and so do the not-so-rich, though the rich, of course, have bigger ones that can resemble elegant chateaus, while their middle-class neighbors are more likely to camp out in something closer to a farmhouse, a little more rustic and a lot more handmade. The mas inherited by Josep Cruset and Encarna Rega in 2015 was “somewhere in the middle,” according to their architect, David Tapias Monné. It started out in 1933 as a single two-story masonry structure but was expanded into…

“It has lots of names: the wood house, the glass house, the James Bond house,” says Christian Harvey of Farnley Hey, one of Britain’s most notable midcentury modern homes, which Harvey and his partner, Victoria Davies, now own. “When it was built, it was like a spaceship had landed.” The two-story, flat-roofed residence, wrapped in glass and wood, is indeed an anomaly among the traditional gray stone cottages of West Yorkshire. Designed in 1954 by architect Peter Womersley as a wedding present for his brother John, the home stands on one and a half acres of lawn and woods overlooking the majestic Pennine Hills. Christian and Victoria bought Farnley Hey in 2013, a few years after the death of its second owner, Joe Battye. Whether it was the home’s relatively…

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“You know it’s a good design when people either love it or hate it.”—@jessjanice Re: March/April The paper on which you printed the March/April issue is delightful. I don’t know if this is a change, but I found myself wanting to pet every page. The tactile experience of reading the magazine was a treat. And bonus points for whatever magic was involved that prevents ink stains on my hands even if I am wearing hand lotion. VALERIE COURTNEY, SEATTLE EDITOR’S NOTE: Nothing has changed, but thanks for your appreciation. Architect Otto Ruano hid insulation behind fresh exterior cedar siding for the remodeled cabin in the Hudson Valley [“Like Old, But New,” March/April]. Serious question: What kind of insulation and R-value was installed above the exposed-rafter ceiling and roofing? That would…

For nearly a decade, architect Jesper Therkildsen and his wife, Karin, lived in a dream house: a 2,900-square-foot space of Jesper’s design that looked out onto Denmark’s Little Belt strait, a regular haunt of porpoises, whales, and myriad bird species. But the couple gradually realized they were ready to trade their waterfront vistas, and Jesper’s 19-mile commute, for the convenience of city life. They set their sights on nearby Fredericia, where Karin worked and the couple first met. They eventually found a dilapidated 1930s building that had been empty since the appliance company using it as a storage facility abandoned it in the early 2000s. The property consisted of two conjoined yet distinct buildings—they were attached in a U-shape but their interiors weren’t connected. “When we saw that old stock house,”…

Inviting lush lawns, beds bursting with blooms and greenery, leafy trees offering shade and solitude. Who wants to bring technology into the peace and beauty of the outdoors? The truth is, gardens and yards are hard work, and landscape maintenance leans heavily on resources that are anything but plentiful. Add in lighting, and outdoor spaces quickly become costly and complicated to design and keep up. Enter the smart landscape, which promises to maintain your grounds more efficiently and effectively than you might, while preventing wasted water and providing simple ways to enhance aesthetics. Water is the biggest challenge of any landscape. We spray roughly nine billion gallons on our yards every day, accounting for 30 percent or more of all residential water use in the U.S. Most of us drastically…

Spectacular coastal views and a prime location were what first attracted the homeowners to the Plum Street house, a 1960s property located near Point Loma, San Diego. Aware that the mid-century home would need considerable updates in order to meet their modern needs and active lifestyle, the family knew they were in the right hands when they were introduced to Will & Fotsch Architects, Inc. Only accepting new clients on referral, this California-based firm was given free rein to renovate the 3,700-square-foot home. Goals for the project included modernizing the home and creating a series of comfortable interior spaces for living and entertaining, while keeping as much of the existing structure as possible—and most importantly, preserving and highlighting the home’s striking views. To achieve this, design firm principal Andy Fotsch…

To say 2019 has been an exciting year so far for Joel and Meelena Turkel would be an understatement. After having spent the last two years designing their own family residence, the couple—founders of Turkel Design—have not only completed the home, but it was also recently featured at Palm Springs Modernism Week. Paying homage to the area’s legacy of midcentury architecture, it is the property’s modern flair and prefabricated structure that makes it so unique. Inspired by midcentury-modern architecture and an easy, breezy, open-air lifestyle, the 2,110-square-foot home embodies the beauty of prefab living to the core. As with the majority of their projects, panelized prefab was used for the design of this property, which the couple have named the Axiom Desert House. “When you panelize and produce componentry, you…

Maria Ibañez de Sendadiano and Todd Rouhe had been camping in the Catskill Mountains of New York with their daughters, Inez and Luz, for many years, getting fresh air away from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where they live and run their firm, IdS/R Architecture. The couple do both commercial and residential work, and they’re members of Common Room, a collective based in Brussels and New York that publishes books and designs exhibition spaces for arts organizations. Their love of the wilderness and their growing interest in building with sustainable technologies converged as they began thinking about swapping their sleeping bags for a permanent second home outside the city. At first, they considered fixing up one of the old stone houses that line the area’s main highway. But they realized that…

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Growing up in India, we had occasional power outages. During one, I sat in front of an Impressionist-style oil painting in the house, copying it with my Alphacolor pastels. That was the first thing I ever made that I was proud of, and it’s why I brought the pastels with me when I immigrated here in 1984. It’s a treasured box full of dust and years. Back in the ’80s, people wore a lot of teal and purple. I remember being quite offended by it and not understanding it, which is why that color range of the pastels is pretty untouched. Colors in India are much earthier, and those are all worn out. My Alphacolors and Prismacolors were my lifeline to thinking about architecture. I preach drawing all the time…

“The pool can be a reflection of a house’s architecture or a picturesque alternative outside—like a grown-up version of the tiki rooms people used to have. In the daytime it can be cool and keep you out of the sun‚ but later it can be lit up and be a kind of glamorous place to hang out all night. You’re doing more entertaining than having a bunch of 12-year-olds splashing. It’s like a hotel where you’re in a branded space. You’re part of a bigger picture.” Founder‚ Bestor Architecture‚ Los Angeles…

When Crystal Russell, the owner and CEO of TVL Creative in Denver, Colorado, is tasked with designing a modern home, choosing the right windows and doors is integral to nailing its overall look and feel. “They create a defined cadence on the exterior of a home, and a language of light and form from inside the home,” she says. But more than just conveying the clean sightlines and coveted indoor-outdoor feel of a modern property, Russell says that the right windows and doors can underscore current calls for building efficiency, too. Wood, she says, may be reliable for heat retention and rarely has trouble with condensation. But aluminum frames require less care over time, and come with other pros that can make them a more sustainable option. “One of the…

Whether he’s at home or at the chopping block, Emmy Award winner Ted Allen knows a thing or two about good food. Longtime host of the Food Network’s hit prime-time competition series Chopped, the culinary influencer has also traveled across the United States in search of the best cuisine, as well as written two cookbooks and won several prestigious awards in the process. Through his experience of working on various cooking shows, Ted has learned the value of designing a kitchen to not just be aesthetically pleasing but also efficient in terms of flow, function, and practicality. “Do not design your kitchen like the Chopped kitchen—it will create panic,” he says. Instead, he advises one to establish a clear, systematic layout. “Our kitchen works because the space was well thought…

You could say the sea has become part of Mark Ingraham’s DNA. Though he’s a lawyer like his father, the Miami Beach native has been sailing and surfing most of his life, and he’s more likely to tell you about the bronze boat cleats and pulleys he discovered at a nautical antiques shop than about his latest case. Those old pieces of hardware have been given new life at Mark’s off-the-grid cabin on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera, a 110-mile-long sliver of land known for its pink-sand beaches and laid-back vibe. Part surf shack, part family getaway, it’s where Mark, his wife, Kate, and their 13-year-old daughter, Lucy, go to soak up the island’s unspoiled landscape. The structure is Mark’s second foray into building on the island. The first was…

Long before Mela Breen and David Good finished constructing their 2,400-square-foot sustainable home on the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Breen already knew what she wanted to use for the landscape design: Stepstone pavers. “Stepstone allows you to think about how buildings tie into landscapes,” she says. “The products are a bridge.” Breen held on to the idea for more than a year, keeping Stepstone in mind as she and her husband claimed a rural site just outside Nevada City, California, and built a property in keeping with the zero-energy design and construction mandate of their firm, Atmosphere Design Build. “The house is an experiment in how far we can push architecture and still meet the highest level of performance,” Breen says. When it was finally time to address…

The look of chef André Chiang’s cuisine tends to be as compelling as its flavors. His red grape carpaccio with peaches and pink coriander, for example, is a delicate play of circles with the luminosity of stained glass. Beyond art-directing his dishes, he has also guided the design of his stylish and highly rated dining venues on two continents, including his former flagship, the two-star Michelin-rated Restaurant André, in Singapore. Not surprisingly, the chef took a lead role in the design of his house in Taiwan, where some of his culinary approaches crossed over into the architecture. His “Octaphilosophy”—a culinary code based on eight essential “elements” he calls “pure, salt, artisan, south, texture, unique, memory, and terroir”—is the core of his cuisine. And purity, texture, and memory could describe his…

Vancouver builder Patrick Powers was fascinated with shipping containers even before he inherited a 20-footer in 2012, cut it in half, capped the ends with glass, and outfitted the interiors to create portable site offices for his firm, Powers Construction. While spending his days crafting high-end homes in the Pacific Northwest for the likes of Olson Kundig, BattersbyHowat, and Measured Architecture, he has continued to explore the possibilities of mobile, prefabricated structures. So when Patrick, his wife, Renée, and their two young kids decided to trade their increasingly cramped home in Vancouver for a 104-acre farm on nearby Salt Spring Island, he immediately bought a 53-foot shipping container to serve as the family’s weekend digs during construction of their new primary residence on the property. (When the house is finished…