Two of the garage doors were filled in with frosted-glass block and the ceiling was studded with Leikos from the theatre to light the hangar-like studio. A second living room-like story has a 3000 square feet deck. Natural light floods the entire space. Painted steel structure lines the ceiling filled in with lighting and round vents. Steel beams and radiators may house a telephone or adjacent podium. A 16-foot brick fireplace rises floor to ceiling with the same brick as the building exterior and is framed by floor to ceiling gridded windows, occasionally clothed in curtains of unbleached linen. A built-in grid recalls the new window wall nearby. The floor is painted white wood, soon to be marked by the busy artist’s activities.
The exterior garden features meandering walks and luxurious landscaping. A washed river rock path and triangular pool with a small waterfall are nestled against the latticed windows. The ornate teak scaffolding, once part of a Javanese house, was found rising from a mulch pile in the back of a Balinese warehouse. All the teak furniture came from Bali. The deck is stained redwood in the same parquet pattern as the pickled-oak floors upstairs in the duplex. The window wall features a copper cornice allowing the building to respond to the historic neighborhood.
