Our boys are half Swedish, so we wanted to pay homage to that heritage, too, with the furnishings and the delicate pottery. With help from AD100 designer David Cafiero, who oversaw the redesign of our Hans Hoffman studio in Provincetown (AD, December 2019) we set out to make it a little more us, a little less wabi-sabi. After years of cleaning up Mattel toys and Legos, I kept saying I wanted to feel like I was living in a bowl of miso soup.Ī hand sculpture by Adam Kurtzman adds a touch of whimsy to the master bath. All the repeated materials were ordered specifically in muted shades. This was my favorite, and perhaps the most difficult to achieve. But they are instantly grounding-calming, almost-as they loom large and give architectural order to the façade. Huge plaster horse-trough fountains were designed for the front of the house, and they were so large and long we had to take out lap-pool permits from the city. All of the brick fireplaces, for example, were put up and taken down at least three times to get the regal, walk-in effect we wanted. Everything in the house was done with this in mind. From Stephen I learned the great lesson of monumentalism, that grand gestures help focus and declutter a space. For the new house, we chose blindingly white chalk plaster walls (popular in old Spanish monasteries!), black and white Malibu tiles done in a modern geometric way, and dark tile and wood floors. What this came to mean is find three materials you love and just keep using them.
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