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"We love to be at the fireplace with a glass of wine or mezcal—it's one of our favorite places,

With previous uses a butcher shop, grocery store, window workshop, hat shop, and a restaurant, the mix-and-match facade feels like an appropriate reflection of the renovated home's varied history.

Boy Boy fabricated the framing for the flue shroud and base, which was then finished with plaster, and given a limestone benchtop. The Arto Ceramic tile extends into the kitchen, which has a preserved wood ceiling with new skylights.

Pierre Frey wallpaper surrounds the built-in bar.

"Our many ideas were floating around the mountain, and we needed someone to bring them down and turn them into reality,

The terrace attached to the primary bedroom overlooks the home's fenced-in backyard.

Much of the home’s exterior was preserved. The siding is painted Benjamin Moore “Dolphin,” and the trim is Benjamin Moore “Mopboard Black.”

The pitched roof upstairs is set back from the flat-roofed main floor, breaking up its mass. The detached rear garage became an office for Moshe and firm partner Wayne Erb.

The pitched roof upstairs is set back from the flat-roofed main floor, breaking up its mass. The detached rear garage serves as an office for Moshe and Wayne’s firm, Porter & Erb Architects.

on the coast of Buenos Aires in

When Ana’s design team at Fala Atelier first proposed blocky kitchen cabinets with dramatic stripes, Ana hesitated. “I thought it would be too much,” she says. “But it’s not. It is incredible, and it is very elegant.” Fala’s Filipe Magalhães says the plays of scale and direction in the house’s patterns make the modest spaces feel grander and create a visual rhythm.