Pure Form

By Ken Gutmaker

This perspective of this home feels balanced, serene, and almost abstract in its purity of form. I’m always excited when a building “tells me “ where to shoot from. This is the side of the house that you see when coming up the drive. The first floor is a garage with board formed concrete and the upper floor shows the loft like living space with floor to ceiling glass walls. The corrugated metal in the center is the back of the fireplace. A “Raven-Baseball” sculpture on the right was fabricated from a ships docking buoy. The rear of the home faces the vineyards.

Architect- http://robertbaumann.com

Photographer- http://www.kengutmaker.com

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