David Jameson’s Jigsaw house is located in Bethesda, MD on a corner lot that once was home to a single-story residence. The house was built around an open courtyard that was left from the original house’s remains. The clean lines and the massive windows create a beautiful airiness to the space. Each space is complex with varying ceiling heights and window sizes and an overall asymmetrical, puzzle-like design. The angular lines of the house, inside and out, create a repetition of rectangular shapes throughout. Despite the overall complexity of the design, there is modern simplistic element as well.
Photos by Paul Warchol Photography.
DeAnna on 02.24.2012 at 23:19 PM
I love this house! The interior light is superb! The only thing I think is calling out to me is the (in the 3rd and 4th photos) main entrance and walkway need some greenery on the left, possibly something similar in look to a dwarf horsetail rush or a reed. Then a ground lighting pointing up, highlighting the rush and stone wall at night. Just my opinion. The building is spectacular.
Jennifer G. Horn (@jhornlandscape) on 03.27.2012 at 21:43 PM
Last summer my firm was hired to replace the planting by the new residents and their interior designer Cole Prevost Design. We had a lot of fun adding native herbaceous plants that didn’t compete with the modernism yet added seasonality, texture and color. We used Muhlenbergia to refer to the corten steel used throughout the landscape (Muhlenbergia, or Muhly grass, has a wonderful rust colored flower in the fall, much like corten). We also used Amsonia hubrichtii which looks like a ornamental grass in texture but has blue flowers in the spring and a wonderful toasted-honey fall color. Finally, at the pool, we treated the masonry wall with a swath of Russian Sage which has a surprisingly contemporary aesthetic for a plant in the mint family.