{"id":2706,"date":"2025-01-03T11:34:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2025\/01\/03\/modern-design-meets-the-center-hall-colonial-a-washington-d-c-house-gets-a-bright-new-guise\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:34:43","slug":"modern-design-meets-the-center-hall-colonial-a-washington-d-c-house-gets-a-bright-new-guise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/modern-design-meets-the-center-hall-colonial-a-washington-d-c-house-gets-a-bright-new-guise\/","title":{"rendered":"Reka Bentuk Moden Menemui Kolonial Pusat-Hall: Sebuah Rumah di Washington D.C. Mendapat Penampilan Baru yang Cerah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was a case of strange bedfellows: an Italian couple based in Washington D.C. approached local architecture firm Fowlkes Studio with a 1980s brick Colonial and an impressive collection of pedigreed European modernist furniture. How to combine the two into a family home?<\/p>\n

Fowlkes, which is run by husband-and-wife team, VW and Catherine Fowlkes (they studied architecture separately\u2014he at Harvard, she at MIT\u2014while living together), rose to the challenge by deftly streamlining both exterior and interior. Out went the window shutters and the center hall. In came the Poul Henningsen front door light, the Finn Juhl sideboard, and the  custom cabinetry in place of partitions.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a makeover that transformed the house from the kid next door to international sophisticate. Let\u2019s take a tour.<\/p>\n

Photography by Jenn Verrier, courtesy of Fowlkes Studio (@fowlkesstudio).<\/p>\n


Above: The new looks begins at the entry. The Italian owners\u2014she\u2019s works for an international organization; he\u2019s in tech\u2014are confirmed modernists, hence the painted brick (it\u2019s Blackened from Farrow & Ball at 50 percent tint), new Marvin casement windows, orange steel stair rail, and aforementioned Poul Henningsen copper sconce. \u201cOn a block of buttoned-up red brick [it\u2019s in Spring Valley], these details help the house stand out,\u201d says Catherine. (Scroll to the end for a look at it Before.)
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Above: \u201cThe furniture is almost all well-known pieces from a mix of Italian, French, and Danish modern designers and architects. Every home our clients have lived in has incorporated these pieces, even their parents\u2019 house,\u201d says Catherine. The Vico Magistretti Chesterfield-style Raffles sofas and circular Sen tables are available from De Padova, a Milan-based company with a showroom in downtown NYC.,<\/p>\n

Note the new linear moldings that the architects introduced throughout\u2014each room in a different design that\u2019s a translation of the traditional. \u201cRather than create wood paneling on walls we applied square-cut wood (sticking) to the drywall and also created a custom crown,\u201d explains Catherine. \u201cIt provides an elegant backdrop for the more contemporary, and in some cases, colorful furnishings.\u201d<\/p>\n


Above: A Finn Juhl sideboard, a 1955 design still in production, stands in the den, which has a newly wide open to the living room. The circular hanging light is the Sorry Giotto from Catellani & Smith, an Italian company that supplied the majority of the lighting\u2014the owner is an old friend of the family. The living room and den are painted Farrow & Ball\u2019s Ammonite.
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Above: A Ligne Roset\u2019s Prado Sofa and Saarinen Womb chairs add primary color to the den, which, the architects describe as \u201coriented around a custom monumental fireplace surround clad in honed Super White marble flanked by metal bookshelves.\u201d Note the new crown molding and \u201csticking\u201d on the ceiling. The wooden  floor is the existing white oak refinished.,

Above: In lieu of the center hall, custom cabinets two feet short of the ceiling serve in several spots as partitions and provide ample storage. (Scroll to the end to see Before and After floor plans.) The island, topped with honed Saffron White marble, is the only division between the kitchen and dining room. The cabinets, fabricated by Mersoa Woodwork, are wire-brushed white oak with stained walnut pulls, knobs, and toe kicks\u2014the two-toned wood on George Nakashima\u2019s Straight-Back Chair inspired the color combination (see the stool version in the pantry below).
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Above: \u201cThe copious storage provided by the partition allowed the homeowners to forego upper cabinets in the main part of the kitchen, opting instead for a large picture window in front of the range,\u201d write the architects. \u201cThe header over the window bulges out in a gentle curve to accommodate the exhaust fan, leaving the large window unobstructed.\u201d Of the adjacent butler\u2019s pantry they say: \u201cBecause the kitchen is on full display to the dining area, some real estate was culled from the existing  garage to create a second, adjacent kitchen area where dishes could be piled out of sight.\u201d,

Above: The fridge and a second sink and dishwasher are tucked out of sight in the pantry.
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Above: The pantry and island sinks both have Grohe Essence Single-Handle Faucets in different colors. The Lucenera sconce is from Catellani & Smith, an Italian company that supplied the majority of the lighting\u2014the owner is an old friend of the family.
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Above: The dining room cabinets are inset with a textured fabric as a way to distinguish them from the kitchen millwork.
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Above: A David X. Levine painting hangs in the dining room, where tomato-red Wishbone chairs surround &Tradition\u2019s Drip table. The oak cabinets are shorter than the ceiling, says Catherine, to \u201callow light to bleed throughout the first floor and blur the distinction between furniture and architecture.\u201d,

Above: Two bedrooms and a bath were combined to create the primary suite: \u201cThe space is organized around an oak bed wall that recalls the downstairs millwork and separates the bed chamber from the closets which, in turn, lead into the bathroom,\u201d write the architects. The bedside String Cone and String Sphere lights are Michael Anastassiade\u2019s designs from Flos.
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Above: The bath has Venetian plaster walls and a white oak vanity topped with honed Petite Blue limestone. The burnished nickel faucet is from Phylrich\u2019s Transition line. 
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Above: Zia\u2019s Cotto Tiles (<\/span>Toltec Red Clay
\n and <\/span>Red Clay 4 x 4
\n) step up to a <\/span>Victoria + Albert soaking tub
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Above: The brick Colonial was built in the 1980s.
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Above: A view from the dining room of the center-hall entry: The plan was traditional down to the wainscoting. The white oak floors were preserved but refinished with the dark stain removed.
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Above: The kitchen was white on beige. <\/p>\n

Floor Plan: BEFORE<\/h3>\n


Above: The downstairs was formally divided with the two living rooms to the left of the hall, and a dining room and kitchen on the right. That\u2019s the garage on the far right. <\/p>\n

Floor Plan: AFTER<\/h3>\n


Above: Fowlkes Studio introduced a more organic flow between the rooms. \u201cThe hallway wall that divided the front hall from the dining room was entirely demolished and replaced with a continuous run of millwork: the first stretch houses the coat closet and is accessed from the hall.  The second run, adjacent to the dining room table, accommodates the family\u2019s china and glassware. The cabinet then stretches into the kitchen where flipper doors expose a coffee station. These oak cabinets then take a left turn at the end of the hall where they offer a broom closet and other storage around a portal to the powder room.\u201d A back section of the garage became the butler\u2019s pantry. <\/p>\n

Also by Fowlkes Studio:<\/p>\n

Outbuilding of the Week: A Guest Cabana in Washington D.C.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ia adalah satu kes rakan kongsi yang ganjil: sepasang suami isteri Itali yang tinggal di Washington D.C. mendekati firma seni bina tempatan Fowlkes Studio dengan sebuah rumah Kolonial batu bata era 1980-an dan koleksi mengagumkan perabot modernis Eropah berprestij. Bagaimana untuk menggabungkan kedua-duanya menjadi sebuah rumah keluarga? Fowlkes, yang dikendalikan oleh pasukan suami isteri, VW dan Catherine Fowlkes (mereka [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-renovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}