Architects and Artisans

If Moseley Architects’ new headquarters in the Scott’s Addition section of west Richmond resembles a 1930s industrial plant, that’s because it started out that way. “It was the Baker Equipment Company,” said Bob Mills, president of Moseley. “They’d take a truck off the assembly line and do a complete makeover to turn it into a [...]

Out in Provincetown, Mass., on the tip of Cape Cod near the end of the earth where all the writers and the artists and the bohemian outcast characters of this world go to live and work and fool around – out there in P-Town, as they call it, are the house and garage that Norman [...]

Jacob Marks is a history major turned furniture maker. He sees similarities between the two fields that are less than obvious to most people. “Both require skill, discipline and attention to detail,” he said. “But the design of furniture comes more easily to me than the writing of history.” It shows. He started Skram Furniture [...]

For the past six years, Judith Shatin, professor of music at The University of Virginia, has enjoyed an office in the Stanford White-designed Old Cabell Hall on the Lawn. She has an inspiring view of Jefferson’s Rotunda.. “I happened to be sitting in Old Cabell, looking at that beautiful scene, when it suddenly occurred to [...]

For the renovation of a 1950s ranch in La Canada, Calif., FER Studio (that’s Form, Environment and Research) learned to walk the fine line between modern and too modern. “We wanted to give it a modern space, but not lose that feeling of ‘home’ and where it came from,” said Christopher Mercier, partner in the [...]

House 6 in Menlo Park, Calif. is a tactile excursion into the sensuous appeal of concrete. At the heart of the 4,000 square foot home is a hybrid core of concrete and wood framing. While some of its walls are rough, board-formed concrete, others are hyper-smooth and seemingly polished. Still others are articulated with bands [...]

Anyone who’s ever heard Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington team up on “Mood Indigo” has experienced an understated tutorial on the meaning of timing and economy. With Indigo Modern in central Tucson, Rob Paulus Architects has tuned into both concepts with an easy, stark beauty. Indigo Modern was designed as an environmentally friendly community of [...]

Vernacular Studio’s 101 Lounge + Café is a destination not just for the young professionals who now live and work in downtown Raleigh, but for the state and local politicians who represent them in the capital city too. It’s a place that celebrates the upbeat transitions taking place around it – and a space that revels [...]

Photographer David Lena not only had the good fortune to shoot a classic, mid-century modern residence in Southern California recently – but also the sensitivity to appreciate fully the rarity of this carefully restored and expanded masterpiece. “It was striking how stark and clean the geometry was,” he said. “There were dark wooden beams that [...]

It may look new, but architect Chad Everhart’s “Farmhouse Redux” is built in large part out of recycled materials. He and his wife bought the two and a half acres where it now stands near Boone, N.C., along with an original 1930s-era farmhouse, in 2007. “We looked at it, and it was the cheapest house [...]