Poject Details

Maury Island Residence is designed to evoke the purest experience of a Pacific Northwest home. Set on a gradually sloping, open site, the house has a foreground of madrones and alders, a middle ground of water, and a background of Mt. Rainer. Building materials are representational of the region, and the history of residential architecture in this area of the country. Cedar and fir, as well as decorative metals like bronze create a warm palette against which the clients can display their collection of mid-century paintings by Northwest artists like Mark Tobey and Kenneth Callahan.

The region’s legacy of craft is strongly manifested in this house. The architect studied the details of mid-century regional architecture, looking carefully at the relationship between wood and glass. This expresses itself in panes of glass which seemingly disappear between walls, and exposed ceiling beams that move seamlessly from inside to outside.

The house is designed both for family life and for large-scale entertaining. Protected by site walls and a stand of trees, the east wing houses the family’s bedrooms, kitchen, office, and informal living and dining rooms. Moving west, and taking advantage of the southern view and light, a formal dining room and living room are connected by a covered outdoor patio with an inlaid mosaic floor. The firm designed several custom pieces of furniture for the house, including a monumental table in the formal dining room.

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