The founders of New York studio BoND have renovated a mid-century home for themselves in Hearth Island Pines, wherein sightlines to personal areas are deliberately open.
After visiting and having fun with the island for years, architects and husbands Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger purchased the 1965 cottage within the notorious queer enclave off Lengthy Island in celebration of Dvir’s fortieth birthday.
The duo set about modernising the home to signify their very own architectural model whereas honouring the modernist masters who designed a number of the barrier island’s most vital buildings.
“The island retreat is BoND’s private reinterpretation of the experimental properties that had been constructed there within the Nineteen Fifties and 60s led by visionary architects like Harry Bates, Marcel Bretos, Earl Combs, and the prolific Horace Gifford,” mentioned the BoND staff.
They settled on a vibe that blends their “signature institutional locker room” model with the celebrated modernism
“Calling it a machine for voyeurism, every part is on show,” mentioned the staff, which aimed to “execute the positive line of each sexual playfulness and want.”
By that they imply a urinal put in in order that it is seen from the entrance door, and strategic sightlines into the main bedroom or onto the deck and scorching tub.
The ground plan was tweaked to accommodate these adjustments, however current home windows and doorways had been reused to work with the revised format.
In the lounge, anchored by a wood-burning range, a pair of leather-wrapped Knitting Chairs from Audo accompany a big day mattress that is striped to echo the rug and cushions.
A spherical paper pendant hangs from the present ceiling beams stained with “smoke and sweat” over the big picket eating desk.
BoND revives mid-century Sears Catalog equipment home in Hearth Island Pines
Floorboards each indoors and out are laid diagonally in opposition to the principal partitions, extending to a brand new round scorching tub recessed into the raised deck. One of many bogs is lined with brilliant yellow tiles that match the patio furnishings.
Total, the design celebrates “options that had been already there and makes use of commonplace supplies like clapboard siding and sq. rest room tiles, making a house that’s so ‘The Pines’,” the staff mentioned.
Hearth Island Pines has been a haven for the queer neighborhood because the mid-Twentieth century, and nonetheless has a wealth of summer season properties constructed throughout that period.
Many have required upgrades through the years, and up to date renovations have seen a bayfront bungalow overhauled by Rodman Paul Architects, a Gifford-designed property up to date by Andrew Franz, and a Sears Catalog equipment home additionally refreshed by BoND.
The studio was based by Dvir and Rauchwerger, who each educated as journalists earlier than shifting focus to structure.
Together with a number of residential tasks in New York Metropolis, BoND’s different latest tasks embody retailer interiors for trend manufacturers Le Père and PatBo.
The images is by Chris Mottalini.
