A Quintessential Santa Barbara, California Home
In the hills of Santa Barbara County, California, this 3,000-square-foot residence is all about the sights. With nods to the Mid-Century Modern aesthetic, a previous professional football participant and his spouse dependable inside designer Corinne Mathern—at the helm of her eponymous studio—to form a peaceful refuge from which they could get pleasure from the sunshine all year extended.
“One of the inspirations that the house owner arrived to the desk with was of Aman Kyoto in Japan,” remembers Mathern, noting that the pair lately moved from Dallas, Texas. “I derive a ton of inspiration for tranquil areas from the Aman Resorts, so I understood it would be a superior suit.”
Within the property, a blend of pigmented blues, greens, and yellows echoes the natural surroundings, as do earthy resources which include wooden, clay, stone, and plaster.
“We desired to create a retreat for the householders, exactly where they could love the all-natural landscape and feel the calmness of the mountains,” says Mathern. “If we strayed from pure materials, it would not have had the very same result.”
Mathern also took inspiration from will work by Mies van der Rohe for the open up concept place with flooring-to-ceiling doors and home windows Eileen Gray for the Mid-Century Fashionable affect and Alvar Aalto for the perception of calmness all through the area.
“We made a seamless link amongst the indoor areas and the exterior spaces that invite you to expertise them as a person and the similar,” suggests Mathern.
Flawlessly balanced, the end result is an ode to mother nature that invitations the householders to sluggish down and ponder the beauty of their surroundings in an ambiance where by every little thing falls into position.
