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"A Peaceful California Retreat\nIn an idyllic California coastal town, architect Dirk Denison crafts a shipshape seaside house for a couple seeking a Zenlike retreat\nChicago-based architect Dirk Denison designed a small but sybaritic house for clients in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The cedar-clad main fac\u0327ade rises above street level, which increases the homeowners' privacy and guarantees them unobstructed ocean views.\nWidely spaced mahogany panels serve as screens to define the living room, where built-in seating and cabinetry are paired with Nakashima low tables.\nThe galley-style kitchen features custom-made mahogany cabinetry and granite counters, Fisher &amp;amp; Paykel dishwasher drawers, a Sub-Zero wine cooler, and a Just stainless-steel sink with Dornbracht fittings; the runner was handwoven in tibet.\nA view of the ocean from the breakfast room. Verner Panton's acrylic Globe light hangs above Hans Wegner CH20 elbow Chairs, and Marie Krane Bergman paintings are displayed on the wall.\nA teak floor and built-in shelving in the office play up the house's shiplike quality, as do the high-function furnishings\u2014an eames chair by Herman Miller, and Artemide's tizio lamp on a Nakashima Conoid desk.\nThe glass-roofed courtyard at the center of the house provides natural ventilation and passive solar heating. A Japanese ofuro soaking tub with a Vola faucet and fittings joins custom-made chaises by the architect and Brent Comber's Buds side tables.\nOn the top level, a meditation room with a circular skylight opens onto a roof deck framed by cypress trees.\nOff the meditation room, a roof deck doubles as a dining area; the built-in teak daybed has cushions and pillows of perennials outdoor fabric."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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