Luxe Interiors + Design Explores a Pacific Northwest Island Retreat
Evolving a remote property in the San Juan Islands, clients and project team revisited hallmarks of the original home design while creating new opportunities to enjoy the remarkable setting.
"This home is all about bringing families together and being immersed in nature. The scents, the sounds—the piercing cries of the bald eagles as they swoop down over the water—everything is different here.”
We’re honored to have Henry Island Residence featured as the cover story in the January/February Pacific Northwest issue of Luxe Interiors + Design. Writer Maile Pingel spoke with Ray Calabro, FAIA, Principal in our Seattle studio, as well as Chris Huggins of Hoxie Huggins Construction, to explore the process of creating an expanded family retreat with a new guesthouse, workshop, and games pavilion organized around a main residence first designed by our practice in 2012. Pingel notes the zen-like qualities of the new and renovated modernist dwellings, which together create a “close yet faraway retreat for lengthy camp-like vacations” and open completely to invite the sights, sounds, and smells of the surrounding forest, meadow and bay. Read the full article in the link below.
