Collection by Kate Reggev
This home in a former Chicago church fully utilizes an original stained-glass window in its light-filled kitchen.
The undulating white-cedar door is a replica of one Santiago admired at a sushi bar in Japan.
The First Church in Boston, restored by Paul Rudolph in 1971. Image courtesy Flicker user Barakmich.
Designer Paola Navone transformed a 200-year-old factory in Umbria into an inviting home for Andrea Falkner-Campi and her husband. Once a tobacco-drying plant, and before that a silkworm farm, the home sits 90 miles north of Rome.
Architects who practice in dense cities know its almost impossible to add square footage to an apartment. Yet at a garden-level residence in Boston's historic Beacon Hill neighborhood, Chris Greenawalt of Bunker Workshop was able to unearth 70 square feet of living space through a little excavation.
An older building doesn't mean that it can't also be modern, particularly in the kitchen.
The bedroom is located on a mezzanine just below the roof of a church. The minimal decor and simple arrangement of the room reflect the client’s modest tastes. The small pewter spotlights and pendant by Holloways of London connect to an exposed galvanized conduit that is set against the brick above the bed.