"To create a Zenlike space, we wanted to use light colors," Richardson says. "The Ultrasuede we got can be finished very durably and cleaned easily — they've lived there for three months and it still looks like new." The antique French doors had to be rebuilt, since much of their wooden frame had rotted away; the architects also had to find a craftsman still making plate glass the nineteenth-century way (in other words: wavy) to replace a pane broken during construction. UT picked the scarlet rug to inject warmth into the cool room; set into the white oak floor, the dense pile (industrial-grade wool, from Bentley) forms a continuous surface. The woven chair at rear is a vintage piece, designed by Poul Kjaerholm.
 

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The Chair (at right)
Photo: Andrew Bordwin