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Industrial Chic Makeover of a 1960s Icon

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Casual industrial chic is amusing and never cold in this black interior makeover of a landmark work.

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Chadbourne + Doss Architects have reconstructed one of Seattle architect Fred Bassetti’s earliest designs from 1962.

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Now a new metal skin with interior cedar liner wraps over the roof and grounds the house to the site.

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Glass forms both sides of this delicious reading room with a warm fire at one end.

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Black surrounds nearly all surfaces of this stark white kitchen.

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Viewed from the opposite side, a warm wood encases and is supported by black steel beams.

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This cedar wood lined “box” shape is new, wrapping and encasing the home.
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Rough and rustic boulders are feature that bring the wooded site in to a patio under the family home.
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By extreme contrast, bathing spaces are ethereally bright, smooth and seamless.
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Yet all the materials used throughout are natural but installed and crafted in an extremely crisp manner.
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Entering the glowing white center of the home has got to be a sensuous delight after the matte black of the bedroom.
Altogether a sensitive makeover of an icon.

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