Louis Halle House

The Louis Halle House is on a landmarked property originally part of the Hiram Halle estate built in the 1920’s.

The property is composed of a rich and varied mix of antique buildings sited within rolling hills, old growth trees and a spring-fed pond. We were engaged to develop a multi-phased design program, which has resulted in a thoughtful merging of landscape, restored and salvaged architectural artifacts, and an expanded and re-imagined modern home.

The original house lacked a defined sense of orientation with no real front or back. While a sense of hierarchy was introduced into the main house creating a clear entry approach, we were inspired to think of the house and its entire property as whole, resulting in a 360-degree design program with the main house being at the center. This created an opportunity to reinforce the connection between living spaces and the landscape. Framed moments of interior/exterior interaction enhance a sense of time and history but also strike a balance between comfort, privacy and enjoyment.

The collaboration between the owner, architect and decorator strived towards a poetic combination of differences found between disparate historical parts and rich materials like terra cotta, Moroccan tile, and wide plank character oak floors. This rethinking and reformulation occurs within a minimal interior backdrop of subtle modern influences that feels at once old world and timeless, yet current and contemporary. The end result is a home that creates new relationships between spaces and events that is endowed with meaning, and built to compliment and enrich the life of the family for this and future generations.