This contemporary home features clean lines and extensive details, a unique entrance of floating steps over moving water, attractive focal points, great flows of volumes and spaces, and incorporates large areas of indoor/outdoor living on both levels. Taking aging in place into consideration, there are master suites on both levels, elevator, and garage entrance. The home’s great room and kitchen open to the lanai, summer kitchen, and garden via folding and pocketing glass doors and uses a retractable screen concealed in the lanai. When the screen is lowered, it holds up to 90% of the home’s conditioned air and keeps out insects. The 2nd floor master and exercise rooms open to balconies. The challenge was to connect the main home to the existing guest house which was accomplished with a center garden and floating step walkway which mimics the main home’s entrance. The garden features a fountain, fire pit, pool, outdoor arbor dining area, and LED lighting under the floating steps.

This project is about memory and transformation. The clients' upbringing in India and memories of the cool white Calacatta Oro floors of her grandfather's house 1960s highrise unit into an open plan that is both informal and luxurious. Marble and finely grained quartersawn maple create a simple aesthetic that runs in variations throughtout all of the rooms of this complete interior re-build. The use of waterjet cut, hand inlaid onyx lotus flowers creates an evocative entry.

Photo: Scott Hargis Photography

AKDO Products Shown: Carrara (H) 3 x 6 Tile, Carrara (H) 12 x 24 Tile, Carrara (H) 12" Grand Molding, Carrara (H) w/ Blue Alps (H) Chic Mosaic, Lunar Gray Medium (Clear) 3 x 12 Tile, Carrara 3/4" Slab (H) Install courtesy of: Marble Works

projecr for architect Michal schein

Daniel Chia

Pedro Pegenaute

Claudia Uribe Photography

Brief was to refurbish the apartment keeping exsisting marble floor. I was asked to create a look that would appeal to a wide age group and give a feel of home rather than hotel to this long stay property.

This 1899 townhouse on the park was fully restored for functional and technological needs of a 21st century family. A new kitchen, butler’s pantry, and bathrooms introduce modern twists on Victorian elements and detailing while furnishings and finishes have been carefully chosen to compliment the quirky character of the original home. The area that comprises the neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY was first inhabited by the Native Americans of the Lenape people. The Dutch colonized the area by the 17th century and farmed the region for more than 200 years. In the 1850s, a local lawyer and railroad developer named Edwin Clarke Litchfield purchased large tracts of what was then farmland. Through the American Civil War era, he sold off much of his land to residential developers. During the 1860s, the City of Brooklyn purchased his estate and adjoining property to complete the West Drive and the southern portion of the Long Meadow in Prospect Park. Architecture + Interior Design: DHD Original Architect: Montrose Morris Photography: Peter Margonelli http://petermorgonelli.com

Photos are taking by http://www.ju-la.be/ Design by Architect Alexander Dierendonck Interior Design by ARTerior Design www.arterior-design.com

Photoographer: Russel Abraham Architect: Swatt Miers