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A real-estate entrepreneur<\/span> clipped and saved a newspaper story about Arjun Desai and Katherine Chia<\/a>’s glassy weekend pavilion that won a Best of Year Award in 2013. The entrepreneur was intrigued by the way the house practically floated above its spectacular surroundings, a bucolic estate in rural New York—because he had just bought 60 acres on a remote peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan. Arguably even more extraordinary than the New York site, this one sits between a cherry orchard and a bluff plunging 120 feet down to the water. “The lake looks like the ocean from up there,” Katherine Chia notes.<\/p>\n

Country house by Desai Chia Architecture. Photography by Paul Warchol.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Country house by Desai Chia Architecture. Photography by Paul Warchol.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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For comfortable enjoyment of the scenery, the house’s butterfly roof extends 20 feet over a bluestone-paved terrace with an outdoor fireplace. Cor-Ten steel wraps the fireplace wall, while other exterior sheathing is 1-by-6-inch cypress boards finished with a traditional Japanese charcoal technique that naturally resists bugs and rot. The 4,800 square feet are massed in three volumes, grouped like the nearby fishing villages and joined by a glass-enclosed breezeway with doors at both ends for cross ventilation. Interior trim, flooring, and custom furnishings are ash logged on-site. Though used primarily for family vacations, the house features geothermal heating and cooling for efficiency year-round. <\/span><\/p>\n

Country house by Desai Chia Architecture. Photography by Paul Warchol.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n
Country house by Desai Chia Architecture. Photography by Paul Warchol.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Project Architect: <\/strong>Huy Dao.
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> See more from the December 2016 issue of Interior Design<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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