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Soft Witness is based between New York and Florence, and you can feel the balance of global taste at work in founder Whitney Krieger’s designs. The Cono chair, debuting in this presentation, is upholstered in super soft camel-colored alpaca mohair and is luxuriously comfortable. Every piece in this display felt slightly unexpected, graceful, and well-constructed.

This Catskills getaway is crafted from copper, wood, and stone—and comes with a hinoki soaking tub and 46 acres of woodlands.

"One of my favorite moments in the house is the window above the vanity in the guest bath,

A George Nakashima chair sits in the corner office off the stair landing.

In the kitchen, mini orb pendants by Allied Maker illuminate the island. The kitchen stools are by KBH through Fair Design.

The screened porch enjoys a darker aesthetic, with a couch by Kettal and table by mark Jupiter. The wall sculpture is by Malcolm Hill.

In the living room, corner glazing helps blur the line between inside and out. The sofa is by Minotti and the coffee table is by Jake Szymanski. The lounge chair is Finn Juhl.

Located on a quarter-acre site in Amagansett, the house is closely bordered by neighbors but screened by mature landscaping.

After entering through a gate, the home's charred spruce siding presents a somber face.

“When you work with a remodel, depending on how far you want to take the work, you are either careful and consider the existing structure or you treat it as a blank canvas,” he says. They worked with the shape of the building to make it “appear less imposing from the street” as well as clean up the elevations to make them more pedestrian in scale by rebuilding the front porch and carport. The exterior, a blackened sugi ban-esque wood, brings warmth and resiliency, and has an “alligator-like texture to it,” says the architect.

“Finding this house was like finding a treasure,” says Jessica. “A lot of people who saw it wanted to tear it down. But we wanted to do right by it. The pool has become a shared social space—it’s a very good hangout.”

Playing off the design of the concrete pad outside the living room, Frank laid out a series of stepping stones that lead from the house to the pool. “These circles bring you through the grass, but when you hit the pool, the baja shelf is itself another big circle,” he says.

“I’m a pool person,” says Jessica. Daltile penny tile lends a retro feel to the water feature. “Orange and blue are our primary accent colors for the house, so taking them to the backyard was kind of a given,” says Frank. “The orange refers back to the burnt orange from the [1950s] era of the house itself.”

The Niwa collection prioritizes accessibility with panelized build that allow for efficient shipping and quick assembly‚ even in remote locations.

Koto is a a UK-based company that offers a number of prefabricated structures. Niwa is their first flatpack product that can be delivered anywhere in the world.

The living room got a facelift with a new fireplace and built-in seating and storage that flows into the hearth. The marble fireplace surround is the same stone used in the kitchen, and the bench is white oak.