Weekend House
Best of Year 2009 Winner: Steven Harris Architects LLP and Rees Roberts + Partners LLC
Best of Year -- Interior Design, 12/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
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Best of Year Winner, Weekend House: Steven Harris Architects LLP and Rees Roberts + Partners LLC: Kinderhook Retreat, Columbia County, NY
They may be members of Interior Design's Hall of Fame, but even Steven Harris and Lucien Rees Roberts need a little assistance sometimes. They got it from Margie Ruddick Landscape, brought in to collaborate on a crushed-shale driveway that would give form to the couple's 50-acre property. At the top of the hill, two cedar-shingled structures sit perpendicular to each other—seemingly separate but actually connected by an underground passage. Effortless elegance pervades both parts of the house. The 750-square-foot wing contains the double-height living room, a guest suite, and Rees Roberts's painting studio; in the 1,500-square-foot wing are three bedrooms and bathrooms, the kitchen, and the dining room. Seated in Pierre Paulin chairs beneath an Italian 1960's glass chandelier, hosts and guests can enjoy the scent of thyme wafting in from the terraces on either side.
DAVID KELLY: PROJECT TEAM.
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