The work of JOHNHOUSHMAND and architect Jo Machinist, was recently featured in Connecticut Cottages & Garden’s September Issue. The article “Bridging a New Life” focuses on a new Connecticut family home that is as sustainable as it is beautiful, both inside and out.

The eco-conscious, modernist home is situated on 1.3 acres of Connecticut coastline with views of the Long Island Sound and is surrounded by private wooded land. The home, designed by Jo Machinist, includes a billiard-room bridge, a studio, plenty of space for the family’s art collection, and a passageway that leads under the house to the Sound. Machinist made an impressive effort to make the home as green as possible using “local quarry granite, radiant stone floors with a high thermal mass, south-facing walls of glass for winter solar gain, which are cooled by solar shading in the summer, and clerestory windows for capturing the ventilating sea breezes.”

The interior design is similarly flawless. In the dining room, JOHNHOUSHMAND‘s No. 0080.3 Black Walnut Dining Table with Curved Blackened Steel Legs sits with Giorgetti Chi side chairs and “The Aim of the Artist” by Christopher Winter Pugliese. JOHNHOUSHMAND‘s No. 0006 1Fold Spalted Maple Low Table with Glass Leg sits in the living room along side a Cassina Met sofa, Holly Hunt cube chairs and Odegard’s Nima Tashi area rug. Both of these pieces accomplish the owners intent to bring some of the beautiful surrounding woodlands into the interior design of their home.

We were thrilled to be a part of such an inspired and forward moving architectural project. View the full project HERE.