The House That Makes You Want to Leave Everything Behind | Weekend Getaway Home

Martha’s Vineyard is home to the single largest concentration of our residential work and some of our earliest projects, including the Polly Hill Arboretum. Chilmark House, like many of these commissions, is immersed in the landscape and continually reconnects its inhabitants with the surrounding woods, pools of sunlight and nearby Vineyard Sound. Entire walls and windows are designed to vanish and erase boundaries between indoors and outdoors. We were guided in the earliest phase of the project by the couple’s wish for distinct public and private spaces and the site’s topography. The central public space—the living and dining areas–plus a sitting room in the guest wing, are oriented toward a kind of natural sun-filled well on the house’s south side. Interior load-bearing elliptical columns allow sliding doors and windows to make large openings to the south in the exterior walls. Opposite, on the north side, sliding windows create large gaps in the exterior, connecting the living room and kitchen directly to the woods and waters of the sound. Bedrooms are on the wooded edges, on the east and west sides. A roof deck, terrace and side decks create outdoor living spaces. Shortly after completion of this project, the couple asked us to begin designing a guesthouse nearby as their family continued to grow.

There is something undeniably magenta about an abstract building with modern minimal design that draws you to it almost instantly. They feel like brilliant works of art; masterpieces that stand out from the crowd and light up a world dominate by simpler squares and rectangles. Nestled in the picturesque and majestic backdrop of Oppdal in […]

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Photo: Asaf Kliger As winter envelopes the nordic countries, blanketing the landscape in snow, the famous…

Decorating your home is always a fun thing. But things can get pretty serious at times. With the many styles, trends and colors to choose from, it can be overwhelming as well. It is a task that requires careful blend of form and functionality. Decorating your house can feel like a chore at times rather […]

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In Englishman Bay, where his relatives have summered since the 19th century, a musician builds an idyllic hideaway for his family and their three parrots.