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The interiors fully embrace the midcentury aesthetic, with high-beamed ceilings, slate floors, custom wood flooring, and a split rock fireplace.

An alternate view of the living space and wood-paneled fireplace.

In total, the home offers three bedrooms. Here is the master, which features an original stone fireplace that divides the sleeping area an adjoining sitting room.

Wood screens blur the boundary between indoor and outdoor spaces.

The sleek, modern interiors feature minimalist furnishings, dark stone floors, and light oak walls.

Les Jours Meilleurs House (1956) The "better days" house was inspired by the plight of a homeless woman and child, who passed away in the cold on a Paris street in 1954. After an appeal by the famous priest Abbé Pierre to solve the social housing crisis, Prouvé developed this 50-square-meter, low-budget prototype, which boasted a kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms.

The Mikado 2 sofa by Hans Hopfer for Roche Bobois is a bright and cheery centerpiece in the otherwise sedate living room. The nubby wool Photon rug from Design Within Reach warms up the expanse of concrete. The framed drawing is by the Los Angeles–based artist Daniel Brice. Huge sliding doors open the house to the outdoors and virtually double the Burtons' living space.

Passionate cooks, the Burtons installed a Mugnaini wood-fired oven in their kitchen and had a custom Grillery fireplace-barbecue built into the concrete block wall on their deck at their home in northern California designed by Marmol Radziner. Beneath the grill in the prefab home, they store oak firewood collected from their property.

The bathroom

The two wings are each clad in a different material. One is clad in white stucco, while the other has walls of charred cedar, giving the house a monochrome exterior.

The Stepstone pavers tie the home's outdoor spaces in with its indoor spaces, creating a seamless living area for the family to enjoy.

"Stepstone allows you to think about how buildings tie into landscapes,