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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.

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

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

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

Black surrounds nearly all surfaces of this stark white kitchen.

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

This cedar wood lined “box” shape is new, wrapping and encasing the home.

Rough and rustic boulders are feature that bring the wooded site in to a patio under the family home.

By extreme contrast, bathing spaces are ethereally bright, smooth and seamless.

Yet all the materials used throughout are natural but installed and crafted in an extremely crisp manner.

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.