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Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner poses for a portrait next to an architectural building model circa 1965 in Los Angeles, California.

The smooth curves of molded plywood on the Eames Lounge and Ottoman were unprecedented in furniture design at the time.

Florida couple John Pirman and Steve Tetreault built a new house inspired by the Sarasota School. Today’s FEMA codes required a plinth to lift the house five-and-a-half feet above grade and a roof that can withstand hurricane wind loads, making it a challenge to re-create the lightness of midcentury design, Pirman says.

Joshua Skirtich’s pegboard wall and pulley-system closet serve as clutter control in his Bushwick live/work space.

Floor plan of Lil Shingle by Best Practice Architecture

The contrasting style of the original home and the 70s-era addition come together in this space, now with white oak wall paneling and a twenty-foot-long, seven-foot-wide custom sofa designed by Office of Tangible Space. The painting is by Kathan Zerzan.

“Where we let loose was on the window,” Matt says. “It’s an aluminium window frame, which is bushfire compliant and easy to install, but the way that we detailed it was about hiding the frame so that the eye is drawn into the space.”

The "appliance garage

Designed in 1952, Paul McCobb’s C7806 coffee table from CB2 is hewn from American white oak and Arabescato marble.

The second floor has an open-plan living and dining area integrated with a single-row kitchen. To the right of the “parlor” is a new addition with rows of skylights.

Build: Starting with the longest and shortest lengths, artisan Warren Shaw taps the ash spindles into the top of the seat and the continuous arm with a mallet. The legs will follow.