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Viewed from the living area, the net adds a bit of restrained whimsy.
The cabinetry on this side of the kitchen is painted Farrow & Ball's "Pea Flower Tea.
An Akari pendant from Isamu Noguchi hangs above the living room. The table and stools are from Ah Um Design Studio.
A found boulder sits beside chairs by artist Samuel Richard Hess.
All of the interior walls are covered in birch plywood, which keeps the focus on the natural beauty outside.
Kím designed all of the cabinetry in the kitchen, which features Venice terrazzo tile from Concrete Collaborative.
The Boathouse was painted a bright mint blue to glow from below.
The Front of the home is layered in texture, also preserving its original 1950's mahogany front doors.
An undulating mirror and illuminated shelves infuse the bedroom with an artistic feel.
Situated underneath the wood ceiling, the upper-level apartment’s living room is elevated by a petite, functional kitchen.
Victor and Brittany’s kitchen features a Bertazzoni range and oak floors.
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Earthy tiles by Heath Ceramics surround the alcove bathtub with custom wood millwork.
In the galley kitchen, tiles by Heath Ceramics complement the original ash cabinetry.
The sprawling property includes an infrared sauna just outside the house.
At Sea Ranch, a half-century-old enclave of rugged modernist houses on the Northern California coast, a new home captures the spirit of its surroundings. The client, a couple, were guided by the Sea Ranch rules—local covenants guide new designs—didn’t mean slipping into Sea Ranch clichés. Lovers of Cor-Ten steel, with its ruddy and almost organic surface, the architects made it the main exterior material, along with board-formed concrete and ipe wood. The Cor-Ten, which quickly turned an autumnal rust in the sea air, and the concrete, with its grain and crannies, mean the house isn’t a pristine box, Ramirez says. His Neutra house "was very crisp and clean," he says. "This house is more distressed, more wabi-sabi." Together, the Cor-Ten steel and board-form concrete give the exterior a weathered look.
After buying a site overlooking an inlet called Smuggler’s Cove, Gabriel Ramirez asked two architects—Norman Millar, dean of the Woodbury School of Architecture, and Judith Sheine, head of the architecture department at the University of Oregon—to design the house. Boi sconces, which David Weeks designed for Ralph Pucci, illuminate the bedroom in this Sea Ranch residence.
As the marble slabs surrounding the bath were retained from the original fit-out, it was impossible to change the tapware—which was a shiny chrome and felt dated. To give it new life and a more contemporary style, Prineas had it powdercoated in the same bold blue color as the new tapware.
The couple loves to cook and host, so the kitchen was designed to be sturdy—"I just didn't want anything to be precious,
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