Tuesday, August 5, 2008

A Modern Hillside Home


I droooool over this house. My dream home is a modern minimal house with natural elements in it.


While constructing a contemporary house for a couple in Sonoma, California, architect Harvey Sanchez and his son, Conrad, asked designer Ron Mann to help with the architecture and build out and decorate the interiors.



A bridge cantilevers over the pool. Mann added the poolside terrace and used a large fragment of ceiba-tree root as a curtain for the outdoor shower.


Interior Designer Ron Mann.


An aluminum pendant light hangs above the dining table. The banana photomural is by Lenny Eiger.


Mann designed many pieces for the house, including the cypress bench and the hammered-aluminum-and-steel light fixture in the entrance courtyard.


An antique chariot wheel from Rajasthan, India, greets visitors to the wine cave. Soil was removed from either side of the entrance to create a natural stone passage.


The cave walls have a sprayed-concrete finish.


A mixed-media work by Gugger Petter hangs on a wall of the master bedroom, where textures help define the space. The throw on the bed is made of Icelandic wool. A pair of swivel chairs are covered in a rose-pattern hemp. Glant silk chenille on bed, headboard and banquette.


The living area. His corrugated-steel-wrapped blue wall extends out to the courtyard. The sofa back and base “monoliths” are made of blue-gum wood.


The upper terrace and the living and dining areas employ a mix of contemporary and primitive elements.


More of this beautiful Hillside home here...


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