6 Homes Framed by Trees

Mark Word Design did the landscaping, with an emphasis on water conservation, surrounding this Austin, Texas, house by Alterstudio Architecture. "It's about usage levels, but it's also about the way we treat storm water and runoff since it all goes back into our supply at the end of the cycle," designer Sarah Carr says. Word and his team chose plants that help reduce erosion, require little watering, and allow storm water to percolate. Mulch and living ground covers—including Big Blue liriope, marsilea, and Palisades zoysia turf—keep moisture within the soil and lower the temperature of the soil, protecting the roots of the live oak trees.

Photo by Patrick Wong.

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The Companies That Are Keeping American Design Alive

The Retailers of American-Made Design: Makers Market

Suzy Ekman of Makers Market, an online shop that aims to celebrate American craftsmanship with high-quality local wares, tells us about her dreams for domestic production.

The Retailers of American-Made Design: Room & Board

We chat with Gene Wilson, director of manufacturing and vendor management at Room & Board, about the ups and downs of producing in the U.S.

The Retailers of American-Made Design: WorkOf

Charlie Miner and John Neamonitis, the co-founders of WorkOf, discuss the trends they've noticed in the maker community.

The Retailers of American-Made Design: The Commons

Erin Connelly and Kerry Clark Speake are co-founders of The-Commons, a site that sells American-made home wares.

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An Off-the-Grid Island Home for a Seattle Music Producer

On a 24-acre parcel on Henry Island, in Washington State’s Salish Sea, is the home of Grammy-winning producer Adam Kasper, one-third of what he describes as a “tight three-piece family,” including wife JJ and daughter Sofia. Designed by Peter Bohlin of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, the 3,000-square-foot house “incorporates the natural world by allowing one to experience the temperature, sights, and smells of the island as you travel through the house,” Kasper says. He calls it “the house that Nirvana built,” from his time as a producer for the world-famous band, along with their Seattle grunge brethren Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and the Foo Fighters.

Site challenges abounded in this project, among them the fact that the crew needed to work carefully around sensitive Native American archeological sites—including midden and rock-cairn burial sites—of the Lummi tribe, which necessitated the family inviting tribal members to the property many times to approve and bless the process. And, notes Kasper, “every single item had to be brought in by barge or boat and driven by gator to the site.”

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A House from the Era of 'Downton Abbey' Sports Surprising Modern Furniture

The Chatsworth house, the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, is over five centuries old. Home to the family's impressive art collection, it's a fitting place for an exhibition. But "Make Yourself Comfortable at Chatsworth" is not the type you'd expect. Open through October 2015, it brings modern seating—and some site-specific designs—to the home's historic interiors, making for an unusual juxtaposition of old and new.

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  Spun Chairs by Thomas Heatherwick for Magis.

  
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  Chaise lounge by Deger Cengiz.

  
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  Counterpart, a site-specific commission by Tom Price in the chapel.

  
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  Endgrain, a custom piece by Raw Edges, situated in the sculpture gallery.

  
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Spun Chairs by Thomas Heatherwick for Magis.

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An Homage to the Mighty Beanbag Chair

In the foreground are Float beanbag chairs and poufs from Paola Lenti. Mamagreen sofas nestle near the house on the sun-dappled deck. A 9.5-foot-tall shade cloth curtain seals off the entire length of the prefab house, keeping the heat out of the interior and preventing accidental bird suicides against the floor-to-ceiling glass walls.

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This Modern Barn Looks Completely at Home in the English Countryside

Constructing a contemporary home extension in a bucolic region renowned for its untarnished hills can quickly provoke local controversy. So when Chris Dyson Architects began renovating a dilapidated, 19th-century gasworks building in England’s beloved Cotswolds, the firm came up with a clever way of respectfully adapting the structure to the rural landscape. The nearly 1,300-square-foot addition to a traditional cottage mimics the shape and materials of nearby barns while remaining distinctly modern. The local response? “It’s been remarkably positive,” partner Harry Whittaker says.

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6 Ways to Use Color at Home

An accent wall needn't read like an outdated real estate marketing tool. When done right, offsetting spaces in your home with a new coat of paint can make all the difference.

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  Soothing gray turns this bedroom in a renovated Brooklyn apartment into a calrming retreat from the bright, white living spaces.

  
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  Farrow & Ball’s Babouche yellow enlivens one of the bedrooms in a Royan, France, apartment.

  
  
  
  


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  A coat of rose-hued paint is applied, unexpectedly, to the ceiling of a New Zealand house.

  
  
  
  


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  The wall behind a tub in an English farmhouse boasts a chartruse wash.

  
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George Nelson’s Ball Clock May Not Be His After All

The Ball Clock is credited to George Nelson Associates, but even Nelson isn’t sure who made it. Isamu Noguchi, Bucky Fuller, Irving Harper, and George Nelson spent an alcohol-fueled night goofing off and one-upping each other with outrageous sketches. The next day, Nelson discovered the Ball Clock amongst the drawings. “I don’t know to this day who cooked it up,” he’s since said, adding, “I know it wasn’t me. It might have been Irving, but he didn’t think so.”

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A Vision of the 'Apartment of the Future' From Poland

Predicting the future tends to be a thankless enterprise, but architect Bartosz Haduch was willing to give it a shot. His firm, NArchitekTURA, eagerly accepted an invitation to participate in a competition to design the “apartment of the future” in Dobrodzień, Poland, where his firm is based.

The space that NArchitekTURA calls the “Apartment of the Future—R&D Laboratory” is the product of more than two years of work. The idea, Haduch says, was “to create an open space, responding to changes in technology, furniture, and the diverse needs and behaviors of users.”

The apartment, which occupies a space in the Dobrodzień Interior Design Park Dobroteka, has an open plan and a monochromatic white interior, a nod to the simple design of contemporary cellphones and other mobile devices. The space is designed to be versatile, with working and sleeping surfaces that can be rolled out from cabinets.

A defining feature is a nearly 50-foot “green wall,” composed of movable panels that, when closed, presents a panoramic image of a natural landscape. The panels slide from side to side to create different zones within the space, allowing for a variety of arrangements.

Haduch says the apartment was designed to function as a living space, showroom, hotel room, and art gallery. It was also conceived as a laboratory; NArchitekTURA has invited companies to test new products and innovations there, and academic institutions will be encouraged to use the space to conduct research into the development of residential spaces and any residual effects in the areas of behaviorism, sociology, ergonomics, and ecology.

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