Arnold/Werner Architekten Renovates Century-Old Villa in Munich
April 15, 2021
By Joseph Giovannini
The richly pigmented custom paint on the ceiling, walls, and molding, and Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci’s glossy lacquered-metal console table turn the smoking parlor into a warm and inviting haven. Photography by Boo Yeah.
Every century-old house has a past, but the landmarked 1929 Villa Bogenhausen in Munich has layers of history personal, architectural, social all of which factored into the recent makeover of its interiors by Arnold/Werner Architekten. Designed by prominent local architect Robert Seitz in a simplified château style transitioning into Modernism, the 16,000-square-foot, four-level residence was confiscated from its Jewish owners in 1933 and only restituted to the family after World War II. In the early 1950s, however, they sold the stately house to be used for commercial purposes. By the time the villa’s current occupants a family of five acquired the prope
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Making a good first impression is something Sarah Ashcroft knows how to do well. After all, sheâs worked in real-estate development for 20 years. âI always pay a lot of attention to what the feeling is as soon as you step in the door,â she says. Her specialty is high-rise residential buildings in Manhattan, but she applied the same kind of thinking to her own 3,000-square-foot brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which she shares with her two children (ages 11 and 7). âYou get that sense of openness right when you walk in, as if the stairs are inviting you into the house,â says Larysa Sendich of Nesta Studio, the designer Ashcroft tasked with leading the full gut renovation.Â
A Houston Family Home Combines Warm Comfort With a Modern Edge
See how Chandos updated the house to suit both its owners.
By Alia Akkam JULIE SOEFER
Since 2010, a Houston couple had happily lived and raised a brood of four kids in their renovated 1960s ranch-style house in the Memorial Villages. But, “over time we simply needed more closet and bathroom space to accommodate our growing children, explains one of the owners. So, when the lot directly next to them became available, we jumped at the opportunity to be able to design a custom home where we could stay put in our neighborhood, they explain.