Amina

Mandel designed a six-by-eight-foot extension for additional space on the ground floor.

A central wood-burning fireplace efficiently heats the whole home, minimizing the need for supplemental in-floor heating incorporated in the concrete floors. Natural cross-ventilation is achieved through the use of CO2 directed grills at the north and south of the home, an added green feature that further reduces the ecological footprint.

The double-sided fireplace is wrapped in a custom surround made fron Cor-Ten steel. The rocker is vintage and the artwork is from the Lost Art Salon.

The living room includes a table from Normann Copenhagen, chairs by Annansilmät-Aitta, and Alvar Aalto’s A810 lamp for Artek, all on a poured concrete floor.

In the land of large mountain lodge wannabes, two California natives tuck Utah’s first LEED for Homes–rated house onto the side of Emigration Canyon.

Architect George Bradley and his husband, Eddie Baba, renovated a 1941 house in San Francisco. Tiles from Heath Ceramics surround the Ortal Clear 130LS fireplace. The white ceramic logs are by Klein Reid (but of course can be replaced with real firewood!), and the firewood storage continues the same dark horizontal band that contrasts with the light-colored fireplace cladding.