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"Bedrooms by the AD 100\nToday's top designers and architects bring comfort, luxury and exquisite taste to one of the most personal spaces in the home\nArchitect Bernard Wharton, of Shope Reno Wharton, and his partner Jerry Hupy drew on vernacular buildings of South Carolina's Low Country for their clients' Kiawah Island retreat. \"The scale of the master bedroom is amplified through its use of millwork,\" notes Wharton. Generous windows were intended to bring the outside in and offer expansive vistas. (June 2009)\nPenny Drue Baird teamed with Irwin Weiner, who handled the architectural design, to transform a 19th-century barn on her clients' Bucks County, Pennsylvania, property into a 4,000-square-foot space for entertaining and housing guests. Throughout the house, Baird balanced the rustic with the sophisticated. \"It's a lovely way to live,\" she remarks. Pictured: She found the headboards in one of the two sleeping lofts at the Paris flea market. (June 2010)\n\"I've always wanted to have a toile guest room,\" says Geoffrey Bradfield, who redesigned his 1869 Manhattan town house. \"Although I loved the concept, the subject seemed too traditional, until I found a pattern depicting New York.\" (September 2005)\nPaul Vincent Wiseman and his associate Timmie Friend designed \"a Balinese pavilion on the Kohala Coast\" with architect Robert Glazier on the Big Island of Hawaii. \"Our goal was to create an oasis by floating the bed in the center of the room, decked in tropical-colored fabrics,\" says Friend. (November 2007)\nInterior designer Karin Blake created \"a gallery-like atmosphere\" for a couple's Los Angeles residence. Edward Ruscha's 1989 portfolio of 10 photographs, Gasoline Stations 1962, lines a wall in the master bedroom. Twin antique carts are used as a low table in the sitting area. \"Karin knew my husband wouldn't be excited by traditional antiques,\" remarks the wife. (March 2004)\n\"There's an economy to the house. It made sense for it to be practical,\" says Thad Hayes, who designed the interiors of a weekend home in rural Massachusetts. \"The common link in my projects is my ability to edit, to make a project complete but not full. I know when a room has enough.\" Hayes made the master bedroom and the guest room (pictured) almost identical, having \"the same bed, the same side tables and the same rugs.\" The gouache is Sol LeWitt's 1998 Irregular Form. (June 2007)\nDesigner Jacques Saint Dizier styled his California clients' abode near Waikiki in what he calls contemporary Pacific Rim. \"If we had torn the house down, it would have been an impossible lot to build a house on,\" says Saint Dizier, citing the difficulty of reproducing aspects of the original architecture. A corner of the master bedroom is all that is left of the previous house's footprint. It is separated from the Pacific Ocean by a single wall and eight and a half feet of island. \"It's just magnificent; you feel like you're floating over the water.\" (July 2010)\nCharles Allem and architect Alexander Neratoff remodeled a 19th-century Manhattan house for Angela Rich. \"Warm and cozy is fine, but I prefer to have a little edge as well,\" says Allem. \"The bedroom is a romantic, feminine hideaway, but it's also glamorous.\" So glamorous that the biscuit-colored, fabric-covered wall directly behind the bed, with its geometricized tufts, reminds Rich of nothing so much as big emerald-cut diamonds. (April 2003)\nWith characteristic bold style, Peter Marino created rich, exotic interiors for a 1929 Tudor Revival house in Greenwich, Connecticut. Pictured: A black-lacquered choba dansu and a pair of black-lacquered four-posters by Marino occupy a guest room. (May 2008)\nJust outside of Athens, Greece, Spanish architect Javier Barba conceived an expansive residence that represents the fusion of structure, site and culture that typifies his work. \"When you design for the beautiful places that I do, you must make architecture that respects nature's resources and does not look like your ego poking the landscape,\" he says. Pictured: In the master bedroom, as throughout, he covered the walls with the same slate he used on the fa\u00E7ade. (August 2010)\nOn a lush oasis in Silicon Valley, designer Suzanne Tucker and architect J. E. Caldwell remodeled an early-20th-century stone winery into a 2,300-square-foot residence. The new master bedroom was carved out of thin air when Tucker and Caldwell halved the family room/dining room volume and put in a stairwell leading up to it, creating a second story. Painted a warm cinnamon, it rests serenely up in the house's eaves, taking full architectural advantage of the pronounced angles afforded by the roofline. (June 2010)\nAllan Shope\u2014a founding partner of the architectural firm Shope Reno Wharton, who started a practice all his own, focusing on energy efficiency\u2014designed a home for himself and his family in Amenia, New York, that gives off more energy than it takes. Site-harvested black cherry clads the walls and ceiling of the master bedroom and is the source of its built-in furniture. As throughout, Shope avoided applying stains or paints. An old Kazak rug covers the bed. The prints on the bedroom walls are all from Audubon's original folio, and most of the birds on view, such as the passenger pigeon and the great auk, are long extinct. \"I put them there,\" Shope states solemnly, \"to remind me every morning of my environmental responsibilities to the world.\" Which, of course, is what this groundbreaking, if not earth-shattering, little house is all about. (September 2010)\nOn a hill surrounded by vineyards in California's Napa Valley, architect Howard J. Backen built a house for himself and his family. In the master bedroom, he left the rafters exposed as a nod to farmhouse architecture. An oversize window provides uninterrupted views of the neighboring appellations. \"It's hard to leave this bedroom in the mornings,\" Lori Backen says. Adds her husband, \"I've traveled all around the world, and I've never been in a bedroom I like more. It's wonderful to be here in a storm, with the fireplace lit and the sound of rain on the metal roof.\" (September 2004)\n\"It evolved into a much more beautiful, elegant and finer house,\" designer John Barman says of a Southampton residence he made over. The lush gardens were a strong influence throughout the 9,000-square-foot home. The d\u00E9cor in the master bedroom captures the yellows of the daylilies and the blues of the hydrangeas. Barman painted a pattern on the bedposts to match the carpet's floral design. (November 2006)\nBeneath the sacred volcano Mount Agung in East Bali, designer Linda Garland revived traditional Sumatran Minangkabau architecture for film director Rob Cohen and his wife, Barbara. From the master bedroom pavilion, the Cohens enjoy views of both a man-made lake and the ocean. (August 2009)\nKatrin Bellinger and Christoph Henkel fell in love with the Colorado ghost town of Dunton Hot Springs and recruited their longtime friend Annabelle Selldorf to design a grandly vertical family retreat for them. By the time you get to the master bedroom on the fourth floor, says the architect, \"you gasp at the views.\" (January 2009)\nInterior designer Mario Buatta used color to breathe new life into a New York couple's dark penthouse. In the master bedroom, he bleached the dark plank floor, painting it in a geometric pattern of apple green on white, and glazed the walls a pale mulberry. (November 2009)\nInterior designer Jennifer Post's overall concept for a family's high-rise apartment in Miami Beach involved \"freedom of space, light, texture, proportion.\" Pictured: A \"catwalk\" follows the bend of the building's architecture and functions as window or wall, changing from clear to opaque at the touch of a button. The full-height, curved glass wall allows views from a guest room, where the beeswax White Brick by LeRone Wilson hangs above the bed. (July 2009)\nArchitect Marc Appleton and associate Paul Williger reimagined a Spanish-style Santa Monica, California, house for Michael and Danielle Braverman. The architects incorporated another bedroom to enlarge the master suite, which spans the width of the residence. A pitched ceiling, with recycled barn beams, increases the volume, while three sets of 10-foot-tall French doors accentuate the ocean view. (April 2010)\nSir Elton John and his partner, filmmaker David Furnish, asked Martyn Lawrence-Bullard to create a 1970s-inspired design for their Los Angeles residence. The couple wanted to \"keep the vibe\" of their building, which dates to 1965. Pictured: The designer placed a Tracey Emin neon installation in the grand, chocolate-lacquered master suite. A work by Gary Hume is nearby. (December 2009)\nJohn Stefanidis designed the interiors of a Neoclassical-style guesthouse pavilion in the Midwest. Each of the whimsically named bedrooms has a different flavor, and guests must be as hard-pressed to choose among them as a child contemplating a glistening array of gelati. Pictured: The fanciful Foxcote bedroom is a symphony in blue and white. (July 2004)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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