Luxury Life & Style - (Page 29) Porcelain paving stones give way to light bamboo flooring. challenges is how to “unbox the box”, using subtle plays of volume and material. The John Street Residence is a perfect example of the elegant simplicity that is emblematic of Starr’s designs. The home is situated on a corner lot in the hill section of Manhattan Beach, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The design is organized around two walls that create an L-shaped plan. This linearity is subtly altered by the shifting of volumes along the main axis to create a sense of movement and sculptured form. These volumes are defined both by materials and by use — smooth troweled stucco contrasts with a rich, warm mahogany siding, accented by copper sheet metal cladding. The outer walls function as a screen to create privacy from the street, while still allowing for maximum light to enter the space. The placement of the windows on the facade recalls the face of a lantern and, like a Japanese shoji screen, achieves a translucency rather than a transparency. The landscaping is gently graded, echoing the sense of movement already established in the build- ing’s clean and fluid lines. Entering the home, there is a seamless transition between indoor and outdoor by virtue of a consistent palette of materials that is carried in from the exterior and utilized throughout the interior as well. Ann Sacks’s porcelain paving stones carry over the threshold into the dining room, giving way to light bamboo flooring that blends with the tone of the tiles. Starr designs with a simple yet sumptuous palette, and a repetition of the finishes gives a clean simplicity and continuity to the overall design. As you enter the foyer, the open plan reveals itself. Floor to ceiling sliding doors “disappear” the inner wall, revealing the garden and pool area that is the true heart of the house. Although the layout is extremely open, with one room flowing into the next and indoor blending into outdoor, each volume or room is well defined and conveys the sense of a definite end and beginning that is cozy and airy all at once. Mahogany built-in cabinetry and both door and window frames trace dark and elegant lines throughout the light-filled space. The tongue and groove detail on the exterior July/August 2008 Luxury Life & Style 29
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