Wood slats

Designed by The Brown Studio, this amazing residential project utilizing solid wood tambour among other materials to create a sophisticated and stunning modernist estate with beautiful ocean views and guest quarters in Carlsbad, California.  More

This project sits in the Church Road Conservation Area in Crystal Palace, South London and consists of a complete refurbishment of a beautiful, historic five-bedroom house and a rear extension.  Unlike with many other projects, the brief here was not to create more area but to enable the clients to fall in love with their home of 27 years again and to make better use of the existing space. This has been achieved by cutting down on circulation area, refurbishing existing bathrooms and moving some into new locations and by providing a more functional and generous kitchen with a new dining area that looks out onto the garden. Further to that we have also created a proper home office, in order to finally provide a nice, tranquil environme... More

A restaurant in Jackson Hole, Wyoming was an existing breakfast diner converted into a high-profile bistro. Pollard Architects was hired as the design architect and associated with a local firm called Tobler Duncker Architects to create a restaurant embellished with western simplicity and high level dining experience. On the exterior, a horizontal wood slat volume was created, similar to western snow fences, wrapped around a private dining room and creating a seamless transition from the outside in. Patterned oak flooring, mahogany and onyx were some of the essential materials used to create the western intimate scale and ambience. The walls and ceilings are adorned with slate and wood. Overall, our collaborative effort was a successfu... More