Design Travel With Sarah Lonsdale
Channeling Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic mixed with a dash of vintage yacht club, chef Josh Henderson and designer Matthew Parker of the Huxley Wallace Collective have created Westward, a restaurant and oyster bar on Seattle's Lake Union with views across the water to downtown. The duo relied on a coterie of local designers to finesse the nautical notes.
Abvoe: The 25-feet-bar was created from a slice of a ship and anchors (no pun intended) the restaurant. Created by local art fabricators Electric Coffin, several of the compartments are crafted into a quirky diorama. The drum lighting shades are made of recycled sailcloth, and the white ceramic lights in the shape of buoys are from local firm Fleet Objects.
Above: Restaurant staff wear St. James boat shirts and other marine attire.
Above: The food served is Northwest-meets-the-Med.
Above: In the oyster bar, pilings are used as pillars with brightly painted cleats for hanging coats.
Above: The Little Gull Grocery in the oyster bar has shelving suspended by rope.
Above: Strung rope serves as a screen of sorts.
Above: Portraits of various captains in history decorate the restaurant (Captain Kirk and Bill Murray as Captain Steve Zissou, included).
Above: Adirondack chairs line the shore of Lake Union, and diners gather around a large fire pit surrounded by a ring of oyster shells. Downtown Seattle rises in the distance.
Above: Nautical rope is used as outside decor.
Above: The restaurant has a 150-foot dock for boaters to drop by.
Inspired by the maritime look? See our Steal This Look on another Seattle favorite, The Walrus and the Carpenter. For more of our Seattle stops, consult our City Guide. And take a look at life on nearby Bainbridge Island in The New Homesteaders.
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Design Travel With Margot Guralnick
After decamping from London for life in the country, designer-maker Rupert McKelvie established Out of the Valley, his Devon, England, workshop devoted to building sustainable, off-the-grid, "efficient yet aesthetic" cabins. His model design on the banks of the River Teign happens to be available for rent by the night.
Photography via Out of the Valley.
Above: McKelvie's little cabin in the woods is solar powered and perfectly sized for two. It has a shou sugi ban exterior—read about the Japanese technique in Torched Lumber.
Trained as a classical wood boat builder, 31-year-old McKelvie went on to study 3-D design and sustainability at Falmouth University and then worked in London as a product and furniture designer. He moved to Devon to start his own practice with a focus on off-the-grid living.
Above: The oak deck is furnished with Net Chairs by Mark Product of Cornwall and a McKelvie burned-wood table inspired by a Kaspar Hamacher design: "After seeing it, I wanted to have a go at making one."
Above: The deck has a canvas shade stitched by a sailmaker and a corrugated black metal roof (see more on metal roofs here). The cabin is heated by woodstove and has solar-powered lighting.
Above: A king-size bed is tucked into an alcove off the open living space. The kitchen comes complete with cooker and gas hob. "For the next cabin, I'd like to incorporate gray water recycling and not use any gas," says McKelvie.
Above: All the furniture and built-ins are McKelvie's own designs in ash and oak, which he and his small crew fabricate (and make on commission). "I wanted to use a minimal material and color palette, three at most," says McKelvie. "Less is so much more when it comes to the architecture of small spaces; each material allows the next to have room to breathe." (For more tips, go to Expert Advice: 11 Tips for Making a Room Look Bigger.)
The wood print over the banquette is made from an ash tree on the property felled in a storm. It's by McKelvie's friend illustrator Bea Forshall. The conical wood hanging lights are by Secto Design of Finland.
Above: A sliding door off the kitchen opens to the compact bathroom. The glass-and-concrete Leimu table lamp is by London-based designer Magnus Pettersen for Iittala.
Above: The bathroom is detailed with Carrara marble tiles and has a brass monsoon showerhead (plus a compost toilet).
Above: The sink is kitted out with reconditioned old brass taps. (If you're looking to source your own old-fashioned hot-and-cold spouts, see Objects Lessons: The British Cloakroom Basin Tap.)
Above: At last week's Clerkenwell Design Week in London, McKelvie launched Out of the Valley's first furniture collection, which includes cabin-inspired sinks with surface-mounted copper pipes and vintage taps.
Above: The cabin overlooks a former farm field that slopes down to the river, where guests can fly-fish and skinny-dip. Bluebells and foxgloves bloom around the property in early summer, and McElvie reports seeing wagtails, wood warblers, herons, and kingfishers near the water.
Above: The field is surrounded by National Trust woodland.
Above: Stargazing from the deck is the main nighttime activity.
The Out of the Valley cabin rents for £130 ($193) to £160 ($237.63) per night, depending on the season. It's located on the northern edge of Dartmoor in Devon's Teign Valley. Two castles—Drogo and Bovey—are nearby, as is the Devon coast.
Explore more cabins in the woods in our Outbuildings of the Week posts, including a Tree Cocoon.
For more examples of shou sugi ban, see:
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Outdoor Spaces With Megan Wilson
When Christopher Columbus set out to find Japan in 1492, he might have discovered futons, but instead he found the Bahamas and hammocks. The name came from a word meaning "fish net," and the West Indians made their hammocks out of sisal, suspending them between trees to avoid being bitten by snakes and other creatures that like to chomp on humans and spread disease. Columbus brought several examples back to Europe, and eventually the Royal Navy did away with traditional berths in favor of this new kind of bed. The naval hammock was made of canvas with enough fabric to wrap the sailor in a cocoon as he slept, preventing him from falling out. The hammock rocked with the movement of the ship, and was easily stowed during the day.
From here, the story takes a Huckleberry Finn turn: Cap'n Josh was a riverboat captain in 19th century South Carolina. He found the canvas hammock too hot for the sultry Southern nights, and the rope hammock too scratchy, so he set about improving the details. Using a smooth cotton rope, he devised a double lattice, and then he plucked some slats from an oak barrel and created a spreader bar. This changed the shape of the hammock entirely and gave us the Pawleys Island Hammock, a classic American design still woven on Pawleys Island. These days, it's one of many notable options for use indoors or out, on land and sea, made of rope or cotton. Here are five favorites:
Above: The classic American cotton rope hammock, created by Cap' Josh and available from the company he founded, Pawleys Island Hammocks, for $159.99.
Above: The Maritime Brazil Cotton Hammock resembles the unstructured hammock adopted by the Royal Navy. It's available at Novica for $67.49.
Above: A rope hammock remains pristine when kept indoors. This one is off the coast of Sicily; photograph via The Travel Files.
Above: A striped Cotton Hammock with Spreader Bar made in Austria; €206 ($226.20) at Manufactum.
Above: A Le Beanock Hammock, $570, in a Swedish country house. To make a facsimile from a drop cloth, see Gardenista's DIY: Instant Summer Hammock.
Object Lessons columnist Megan Wilson is the owner of Ancient Industries and curator of the Remodelista 100 presented in the Remodelista book. Have a look at her past lessons on the Eames Lounge Chair, Atlas Pepper Mill, and Sheila Maid Clothes Drying Rack.
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Architecture & Interiors With Christine Chang Hanway
With a sleight of hand, London architect Alex Cochrane transformed a Victorian boathouse overlooking a lake in Great Windsor Park in Windsor, England—and rumored to have once housed royal pages—into a modern-day writer's retreat.
By its very nature and function, the shape of any boathouse is long and narrow. After completely gutting the interior of this two-story timber structure, Cochrane created an open plan of three interlocking living zones that take full advantage of the structure's shape. Inserting his modern boxlike interventions in the middle of the boathouse, the architect was able to maintain uninterrupted views down the length of the entire boathouse. The result? A modern-day retreat that pays homage to its humble origins with great respect.
Photography courtesy of Alex Cochrane Architects; project first spotted on Dezeen.
Above: Cochrane opened up both ends of the boathouse with new windows to allow light to penetrate into the darkest reaches. The steps lead to the second-story living quarters.
Above: Located at the entry of the boathouse, the first of the three interlocking living areas consists of the writer-owner's study area with desk and built-in seating.
Above: The second of the living areas houses the kitchen and bath, the wet zones.
Above: An uninterrupted view down the side of the kitchen zone.
Above: The original A-frame structure of the boathouse, originally completely hidden from view, was revealed when the interior fabric got stripped away.
Above: Cochrane introduced a ribbon of storage and seating along the other continuous length of the boathouse.
Above: The third living area comprises two beds that double as lounge seating.
Above: The ribbon of storage includes a reclining bench with a recess for books and firewood.
Above: A dressing table at the end is illuminated by cage lights with bronze bulb holders.
Above: The exposed A-frame structure was sandblasted because of damage from nesting birds. The resulting lighter color has a more modern aesthetic matched by the wide widths and long lengths of the Douglas fir floorboards from Danish company Dinesen.
Above: Cochrane added a cantilevered balcony for exterior appreciation of the lake and its view. This required tying back a series of steel beams to the original framework at the center of the boathouse.
Like the look for the pale wood floor? Read World's Most Beautiful Wood Floors.
Above: Cochrane applied oak veneer panels throughout the interior.
Above: Sliding doors offer privacy in the bathroom and shower.
Above: The ground floor still houses boats; the two large wooden doors open outward onto the lake.
Above: The long and narrow plan of the boathouse.
Are we all now lusting after boathouses? See a Boathouse and Screened Porch in Austin and LA Designer Faye McAuliffe's Boathouse Nuptials.
This post is an update; the original ran on June 10, 2013, as part of our Nautical Notes issue.
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