Collection by Diana Budds
Masterful Finishing Touches
A house is clearly more than the sum of its parts, but sometimes a single masterstroke adds the ultimate finishing touch to a project. Here are seven such moves.
Architect Whitney Sander and product developer Eric Chu used bus graphics to provide an attractive privacy screen for a Los Angeles prefab house. Chu ran a couple of photos he had taken of a tree through some Photoshop filters for what he calls “a painterly effect,” sent them to Astek Inc., and, about $5,000 later, he had a pair of roughly 500-square-foot vinyl panels.
Photo by Osamu Abe
A digitally fabricated home office in London conceals all the daily desk clutter and nods to the owner’s love of travel. Photo by: James Day
In Manhattan, where space is the ultimate luxury, a clever design workaround makes a dining table disappear after supper.
Eight years after construction began, this lakeside weekend home 80 miles outside Johannesburg, South Africa, received the long-awaited finishing touch that makes it an eye-catching thermal wonder.
CATCH A WAVE
An undulating wall made from over 40,000 dowels adds a dose of awe to a Massachusetts loft.
photos by: John Horner