| American Institute of Architecture Honorable Mention Winner 1989 |
This single building is the reason you see so many being sheathed in galvanized or enameled sheet metal. This was the very first and, since it won an AIA Honorable Mention award and offered some cost benefits from it's use of material several Architects 'borrowed' the idiom. It's now seemingly on everything; they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and I'm happy it worked out the way it did.
It also started the Project Architect's and to a lesser extent my own fascination with curved construction. Check out our 'A Larger Project' page to see the pinnacle of that design trend. At least in terms of LEAN construction, which it was not then called as the term had yet to be invented and applied to construction processes, and my input.
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| Featured in a Sunset Bath Book |
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Here is your classic before picture taken in one of the three bathrooms we remodeled in the Berkeley home of Elizabeth Thomas, well known cooking writer and lady of great taste, a few years ago. Below you will see the results of our collaboration with Tracey Kessler of tkid, NYC which was featured in a Sunset Bath Book.
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And the after...Quite the change I must say. From the $200.00/sy moiré pattern wallpaper installed by our ace hanger to the one-off custom bronze vessel sink this half bath is right over the top. Such great fun to do with the client who's enthusiasm and taste were amongst the best I've ever encountered.
I was pleased to have the cabinet maker point out to me during his installation that the tile installer would have to take care that his installation did not block the bottom drawer, which you can see in this picture, to the left from opening. The tile sub did take notice of my pointing this out and we had no problems. A small example perhaps but when you multiply it by one hundred times, as will happen on even a small Project, it becomes the sort of issue which I like to avoid.
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This is shot showing the Lumicor inset 'window' in the partition which defines the shower. Lumicor is a recycled plastic resin in which, in this case, long blades of grass were embedded during the manufacturing process. The tile installer and I worked together to fabricate and install it as a waterproof 'window'.
Note the niche for shampoo and other shower needs placed on the tile layout.
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| The Powder Room |
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This is the upstairs powder room of this bath 'triptych' and uses the last piece, but one, of Teak thicker than 1" to be found in the U.S. This is due to the embargo no in place on the importation of this species by the suppliers in South East Asia. We were glad to give this a home that shows of it's beauty. The edge was left as found after the bark was removed for an 'organic' look.
And an Ann Sacks vessel sink with Kohler ficture. The intallation of same in the mirror is a real hassle. Getting the holes just right so that they do not show past the fixture trim took installing the mirror twice but our team got it done and it really is eye catching.
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The last of the bathrooms shows a Buddy Rhodes concrete counter top. Grass laid wallpaper and not really that visible a Italian motif tile floor consisting of a eleven tile repeating 'block' pattern.
'Charcoal' Bamboo veneer cabinetry by our cabinet fabricator with stainless steel wire pulls.
A relatively simple bathroom compared to the others but still stylish.
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