On the front end of the same floor, the master suite has a reconfigured
walk-in closet with custom pulls by Doug Mockett & Company, and
a new Calacatta marble bathroom with a rain shower and Agape tub
offers unobstructed views of the city. Furniture includes a Ligne Roset bed
against a Douglas fir wood-clad wall. The bed is flanked by nightstands
fabricated from the same wood. A vintage Vladimir Kagan chair is paired
with a Murmansk silver bowl by Memphis designer Ettore Sottsass, and a
curved deco dresser has designer Oskar Zieta’s elliptical balloon-like steel
Tafla mirrors above it.
Down the hallway, a small nursery was converted into a music room. Its
closet was eviscerated to form a cubby, upholstered with green Maharam
fabric, where the owner likes to play his guitars. For better acoustics and
privacy, Reed asked for built-in pelmets to install drapes.
At the top of the last flight of stairs, Smith added a boxy MDF railing
cap, which also provides a display surface in the spare, open-plan living
space that has no dividing walls and opens easily to the outside. “You
understand the house better up here,” Smith says.
At the front end, the living room, with full-width Fleetwood aluminum
sliding doors, extends out onto a deck with glass railings surrounded by
planters and river rocks. Its Paola Lenti furnishings and lanterns are all
deliberately low so they do not block sight lines from inside the living
space, where B&B Italia’s flexible Tufty-Time seating is arranged facing
city views. On one side, an old fireplace is reconfigured with a new metal
Clockwise from this image: In the open-plan living space,
the dining area near the head of the stairs, where a glass
railing doubles as a shelf, has a stainless steel ceiling panel
that mimics the scale of existing skylights, and the understated all-white kitchen with marble backsplashes and a
marble island opens to the stepped rear garden by Sculpt;
ipe stairs and board-formed concrete walls and decks form
several zones in the garden for outdoor cooking, for a spa,
and for lounging on Daydream sunbeds by Paola Lenti, and
at the every top, a 10-by-10-foot mirrored cube by CCS
Architecture contains a James Turrell–esque room with a
custom heated bench and an oculus; the rear garden green
wall contains baby’s tears and dwarf geraniums from Flora
Grubb Gardens, reflected in the mirrored cube’s back wall,
which has a narrow doorway cut into it.
