Backyard at dusk
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Upper cabinets were eliminated to open the kitchen to spectacular views.
Gogo, Exterior / Polished metal offset by black accents. The look mimics some of the jewelry created inside; polished dark stones set in silver pendants.
Dining Room - operable louvers at stair, original Jose Moya del Pino cityscape mural, Vibia Rythm light, Hermés table and chairs
Scott Pitek designed this gabled structure for Betty Rahman on a 5,000-square-foot lot in Portland, Oregon.
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This tree house in Sweden with a mirrored exterior by Tham and Videgård Arkitekter is just large enough to host two people.
The sleeping cabin perches on a rocky rise near the Floating House; Meredith imagines these two as a start of a string of buildings that will wrap around the island.
The clients insisted that none of the trees on the property be disturbed, so Kevin Alter and his team at Alterstudio Architecture built a deck and an overhang around two of them.
Photo by Patrick Barta
The dining room is delineated from the kitchen by a long kitchen island with a higher partition between the two spaces. The island provides storage along its length, with exposed shelving at the ends. The drum lighting pendants by Axiom were also made using local timber.