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"Country Modern\nTen remarkable homes that illustrate how contemporary composition can redefine the image of rural living.\nIn northern Minnesota, architect David D. Salmela let Scandinavian influences inspire photographer and author Jim Brandenburg's country compound. Above: The guest bedroom is separated from the contemplation loft by a shoji screen and connected to it by a shared minimalist, Japanese-derived aesthetic. (June 2000)\n\"We attempted to integrate the house into the land without imitating anything the landscape offers,\" architect Tom Ward says of the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, residence he designed for Peter and Karen Warshaw. (June 2006)\n\"They are modernists who have ended up living in old structures,\" designer Russell Groves says of longtime clients\u2014a hedge-fund manager and his wife, parents of three year-old twin daughters\u2014who asked him to reimagine the interiors of a 19th-century barn that had been moved from Canada to Connecticut and subsequently converted into a 15-room house. Above: The kitchen's modern appliances contrast with the barn's original wood beams, posts and flooring. \"What we did here, basically, was revise what we found,\" says Groves. \"We used zinc and marble countertops. They're materials that get better with time.\" (June 2008)\nA residence north of New York City \"has hundred-year-old trees, water and a 19thcentury barn,\" says architect Lee F. Mindel, whose firm, Shelton, Mindel &amp;amp; Associates, renovated it for a young couple. \"If you made a list of things you wanted in a bucolic site, it would have them all.\" Above: \"The bed frame acts as a kind of subspace within the bigger space of the master bedroom and scales it down,\" says Peter Shelton. (June 2000)\nArchitect Margaret McCurry redesigned a rural homestead in Galien, Michigan, for a Chicago couple. The property includes an expanded 1940s farmhouse, a barn, a poolhouse built to resemble a milk house, a guest cottage that was converted from a pig barn, and an old corncrib. Above: The west entrance to the old farmhouse, now the remodeled guest wing, was replaced by a screen porch. Inspired by local architecture, McCurry chose distinctive green and gray asphalt shingles for the gabled roof. (June 2002)\n\"Only one house intrudes on their 360-degree view,\" architect Tom Nelson says of Marc and Elizabeth Wilson's Missouri residence, which he designed with architect Dan Maginn. Above: A freestanding wall separates the kitchen and dining area. The table, made from a 19th-century Japanese kuru door, is surrounded by mid-1930s French chairs. The floors are recycled pine. (June 2002)\nArchitect Michael Graves was commissioned to design a contemporary cottage, a getaway on a family's farm property in western New Jersey. Interior designer Victoria Hagan oversaw the selection of furnishings, fabrics and art. Above: The heart of the first floor is the living room, which Graves and project architect Robert J. Miller left open to the porch, where a dining area was placed. On the partition wall, right, hangs a Rena Bass Forman print. Below it is an X bench in cerused oak, from Maison Gerard. (March 2007)\nCrisp minimalism characterizes a Tennessee residence designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen. Abstracting local farmhouse styles, the architect united seven stark, gabled pavillions on a gentle slope in Nashville. \"At first people thought it was a church,\" he says with a laugh. (May 2005)\n\"I'm interested not so much in interior design as in designing environments,\" says fashion designer Lauren Sara, who graduated from the Parsons School of Design. In renovating her house outside Philadelphia, the clothing designer chose honed concrete for the kitchen counters and added a stainless-steel-topped island. The chairs are from Lancaster County. (June 2006)\nArchitect and artist Steve Mensch added a series of timber-frame pavilions, including a three-bedroom house with a separate office/shed, to his 600-acre property near Rhinebeck, New York. \"To move among them,\" he says, \"is to experience variations on a theme.\" (June 2006)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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