When Jorn Ake and Claudia Salomon sought a quieter life outside the noise of New York City, they set their sights north. In fact, the couple was particularly enamored with a house, clad in dark corrugated metal with luminous white interiors, in rural Columbia County. The owners, though, were still quite attached to it. Deflated, Ake and Salomon asked themselves: “Why not track down the architects?”
That question led them to husband-and-wife team Stella Betts and David Leven, of Manhattan-based LEVENBETTS, who were commissioned to design what would become Ake and Salomon’s new primary residence in Hillsdale, New York. Unlike the clapboarded Colonials and shingled saltboxes that line the town’s streets, the new house is tucked away in a clearing beyond a veil of towering, spindly white pines. There, it stands proudly in the center of an idyllic plat—a machine for living amid nature.
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