The modern recipe is here: aluminum (or steel) + glass on top of hardwood floors, a neutral palette of colors with some accent walls painted in bright and contrasting tones = winner! Designed by 1100 Architect.
Eliminating boundaries by integrating the exterior and interior spaces and tons of light pouring through. The only change I would do, is to get rid of the ugly Dell PC and put a Mac. It’s a better match to a Tolomeo…
James on 01.15.2009 at 19:10 PM
A house from a parallel world where the energy crisis has been solved. The recipe here is extreme heat loss and gain, inefficient incandescent lighting, off-the-charts energy bills and a life sentence in the climate clink. The kitchen, being all windows, appears to need mechanised air conditioning to offest the heat gain. We can’t build this way any more. In UK, literally so: I don’t think you’d be allowed to build this. The Dell is the least of the problems.
Sam on 01.16.2009 at 13:05 PM
Bashing the Dell is tacky. Macs are nice computers, sure, but they have aspects they excel at, as do PCs. I use a PC because that’s what my clients need and use. Does that mean you’re going to criticize me? Pah. Too much advertising + only mid-level content + unwarranted superiority complex = first and last visit.
Daniel Ward on 01.16.2009 at 14:06 PM
What a bunch of whiners.
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Melissa on 01.16.2009 at 22:51 PM
I think it’s beautiful. Not sure about the orange sinks though – would have gone with something black or dark brown.
Contemporary Furniture on 01.18.2009 at 19:32 PM
OK, so is this a place to debate the energy efficiency, or a place to marvel at some elegant, clean contemporary design. Im guessing the latter. Of course nobody is going to actually have a home like this (or if they do, only a very select few), but it is a look for the rest of us to aspire to. Stop whining, start admiring good work when you see it.
Sean on 01.20.2009 at 11:55 AM
All of the comments are valid. We can both admire (or criticize) the aesthetics, and we can certainly call out bad design. Energy efficiency is part of design.
Ana on 01.22.2009 at 15:57 PM
I love this project… There’s a lot more to the story, it was in Architectural Digest October ’07.
colleen attara on 08.04.2012 at 18:13 PM
I find this to be a wonderful living space. Love the openness and the splashes of color against a city background…..
Theresa Grillo Laird on 08.05.2012 at 11:19 AM
Ice cold! Isn’t it possible to look modern without looking so cold and uninviting?