A Swedish Architect Crafts a Flexible Home Fine-Tuned for Her Musical Family
Narrow windows lining the inner walls of the L-shaped structure evoke the sharps and flats on a spruce keyboard.
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As most design fans know, Le Corbusier once declared that "a house is a machine for living in." But the home that architect Pernilla Wåhlin Norén created for her family of seven (eight including their black Labrador, Lovis) in Borlänge, Sweden, is more like an instrument.
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Tiffany Orvet
Tiffany Orvet is a writer and documentary producer based in San Francisco, and couldn't be happier than when seeing good design in action.
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