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The studio was initially designed to sit atop an elegant stilt system. When architect Cristian Stefanescu drove past a construction site littered with large boulders, however, he had the idea to replace the conventional foundation with a rock. “It would be much cheaper and much more interesting,” he says. “I had to spend many hours driving around Bergen with the builder to find a suitable stone that someone was willing to part with.”

The dining room features a tongue-and- groove Douglas fir ceiling. Original built-ins include a mahogany bench anchored between cabinets whose fronts tilt at the house’s signature 15-degree angle.

In the couple’s bedroom, a back corner window that had been straightened by the previous owner was restored to its original slant, and an interior clerestory was uncovered and used to brighten a bathroom on the other side of the wall. The vintage teak bed with built-in headboard and side tables is from Vintage on Point in Los Angeles. A signed Andy Warhol screen print hangs overhead.

The fireplace in the living room is actually a structural element: a steel cage that holds the building upright. The Fischers finished the steel panels that surround it with raw wax.

A petite en-suite bathroom was added to the guest room.

Exposed structural details speak to the age of the home.

The public area of the apartment, which includes the kitchen, has an open floor plan. The floor is a simple concrete solution used in garages which, combined with brass profiles to prevent cracks, unifies the whole floor of the apartment.

The team installed sliding fluted glass doors with wooden framing to separate the living room from the home office, which doubles as a guest bedroom.

A shade of “Art Deco green” bedecks the wall behind the gray velvet Andes Deco bed by West Elm.

An interior window conveys natural light into the hallway from an exterior window in the bedroom. Curving walls allow the relatively small space to live larger. The custom door pull is fashioned from walnut.

In the hallway, a vintage Art Deco desk made of nickel, brass and smoked glass stands before a vintage Chinoiserie hand-painted screen.

“The bones of the original stair are in there,” says McGuier. “We just sawed off the bottom half, put a new straight portion of stair onto the spiral stair, then covered the whole thing in sheet metal and painted it.” Vintage slipper chairs in mohair sit on either side of a vintage Art Deco parchment table.

A view from the grounds shows how the new addition echoes the form and materiality of the 17th-century farmhouse.

The balustrade's splayed spindles offer a playful counterpoint to the rigidity of the exposed wood structure. "As you move around the building, the relationship between the spindles creates a sort of dancing movement as light and shadows play off the wood,

The couple named their company Konga after the young son, Vinca’s mispronunciation of the Lithuanian word for “socks” when he was learning to speak. “For us, it formed a symbolic association with the feeling of the earth under bare feet,” says Goda. “It encouraged us to leave our footprint, but with minimal impact on nature and meaningful value to humans.”

The calming pink palette continues upstairs in the primary suite. The bathroom is located just steps away, and features original yellow and purple tile-work with a matching green bathtub, toilet, and sink.