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Marcos Altgelt, cofounder of Argentine design studio Ries and one of last year’s Dwell 24, renovated a 100-year-old “chorizo house” in Buenos Aires in exchange for a decade of reasonable rent. Chorizos—so called because their rooms are arranged in a row, like sausage links—feature long, greenery-filled courtyards with doors offering independent access to each room.

Instead of hardware for pulls, Andrew made cutouts in the cabinetry.

He also built the record player stand using a console he salvaged from a set.

Like in the living room, Graci removed the closet in the bedroom. Andrew constructed a custom storage cabinet for clothes, suitcases, and display objects. Graci installed a mirror on the wall opposite of the windows to help bounce more light around.

Located in a pre-war building, the floor-through unit had a fairly generic layout: two bedrooms on either end and a cloistered kitchen and living area in the center. “Everyone just wants to hang out by the windows,” Graci says of these fairly common floor plans, noting that the center becomes dead space. She turned one of the bedrooms into this living room and office, removing a wall between it and the kitchen to create a free-flowing public area of the apartment.

Graci works from home so she turned a former closet in the living room into an office. “I always get frustrated at how inefficient closets are,” she says, noting how the very top of the space is difficult to access because doors are usually so much lower than the ceilings. Andrew designed and built a custom workstation for her, which takes advantage of the full width and height of the nook and has a surface that can be collapsed into the desk.

Thaddeus Longstreth, a student of Neutra's, designed the home for pioneering physicist Roger Dashen.

The living room, just steps away from the kitchen, enjoys natural light on both sides thanks to a row of sliding-glass doors.

The sash-style windows are from Sierra Pacific, with a ‘Paramount’ sofa and ottoman by Blu Dot tucked underneath.

South: Mark Word Design Mulch and living ground covers—like Big Blue liriope, marsilea, and Palisades zoysia turf—keep moisture within the soil and lowers the soil’s temperature, protecting the live oak trees’ roots.

A view onto the terrace.

Hartshaw designed and built nearly every wooden detail inside the home: the bespoke kitchen cabinetry, multiple staircases—including the sculptural spiral that serves as a functional centerpiece—solid doors with custom handles, stair rails that flow like sculpture, and built-in elements that are both practical and expressive.