Built for Print
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What began as a showcase of seven home construction projects turned out to be the perfect 10-year retrospective—a look back at some of the key builds that have defined our work in a relatively short time.
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The Cornices and The Eaves
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The millwork for the exterior cornices is possibly the most detailed and labor intensive work being performed on our Atherton project.
Read MoreOur Work in Wallpaper*
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There is something special about working on an historically relevant home and seeing the finished result in all its simple elegance and restraint.
Read MoreOur Endless Summer→
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Where did you go this summer? Road trip, European vacation, or beach time and umbrella drinks? Well, some of us stayed home, dug a very large hole in the ground and had a memorable time progressing with the initial phases of our Mid-Peninsula project.
Read MoreModern Stone
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It is very much an onsite production line with quality and consistency built in.
Read MoreOnward and Upward
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What really rises above all else, is an incredible sense of pride and gratitude to our team for digging deep, staying focused, and continuing to do great work for our clients.
Read MoreLight Well
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Looking up from the below, the framing team is mapping out and placing chalk lines for the main level floorplan.
Read MoreOn Good Form
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The concrete deliveries will run continuously all day, the pump truck will pump non-stop, and the guys will pour 315 cubic yards of material before the day ends.
Read MorePicture This
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There is a story behind every piece of stone, cabinet, roof tile, or ceiling feature, much like a chapter in a very long novel.
Read MoreOn The Surface
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On the floors, limestone borders surround parquét wood floors. Finely finished arched casings limn the doorways and plaster walls. And outside, one person with a good eye shapes and levels the pool surfaces.
Read MoreCeilings are Looking Up
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We’ve been spending quite a lot of time on the classically inspired ceilings from the solid beam and stucco treatments on the balconies, the coffered style with intricate moulding of the grand rooms, to the intersecting half barrels of the groin ceilings spanning the portico.
Read MoreClose to the Work
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There is no one “finished phase” in construction, but many that happen along the way—with some tasks running concurrently, some starting, and some finishing. For now, we’re in the long phase of millwork and cabinet installations…
Read MorePuzzle Piecing
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While construction and build out of the the main house continues, the surrounding retaining walls are getting the stone veneer applied far ahead of any other landscape construction work.
Read MoreSpot On
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Some people say that windows make or break a house. Placement, symmetry and proportion are all paramount in the architects vision, certainly in classic Roman-Italian architecture, so we as builder-collaborator play an intricate role in helping to “get it right” from selection of core materials to executing the finished detail.
Read MoreUnmoveable
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There has definitely been a feeling of solidity and permanence to all of this work — building something of lasting quality has kept us focused and optimistic about the future, even if it seemed as if the world had been crumbling around us.
Read MoreUnderneath the Arches
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Some time ago we posted framing photos on Instagram with the rhetorical question, “Isn’t framing beautiful?” More broadly, the rhetorical question should be “Isn’t building beautiful?”.
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