{"id":114928,"date":"2017-06-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/spg-architects-transforms-lilian-swann-saarinen-s-former-cape-cod-residence\/"},"modified":"2022-11-10T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T22:22:51","slug":"spg-architects-transforms-lilian-swann-saarinen-s-former-cape-cod-residence","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/spg-architects-transforms-lilian-swann-saarinen-s-former-cape-cod-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"SPG Architects Transforms Lilian Swann Saarinen\u2019s Former Cape Cod Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modernist royalty, by marriage, Lilian Swann Saarinen had met her husband, Eero, when she was studying sculpture at the <a href=_-1490.html target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cranbrook Academy of Art<\/a>, headed by his father, Eliel. After the younger Saarinens&rsquo; divorce in 1953, she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, with their two children and asked former Eero Saarinen and Associates architect Olav Hammarstrom to expand a fisherman&rsquo;s cottage in the Cape Cod town of Wellfleet for use as a low-budget family getaway. &ldquo;On the Cape, a lot of architects built on a dime and a prayer,&rdquo; <a href=_-1491.html target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPG&nbsp;Architects<\/a> principal Eric Gartner explains. Considerably more painstaking was his own task: updating the Hammarstrom design for repeat clients, one in financial services and the other a sculptor.<\/p>\n<p>Hammarstrom had built a flat-roofed extension to the cottage, which became the living area, to bring total square footage to 2,200. SPG preserved the living area&rsquo;s cathedral ceiling but ripped out the sleeping loft tucked beneath and repaneled the walls. &ldquo;The owners didn&rsquo;t like the knotty-pine visual,&rdquo; principal Coty Sidnam explains. New gray-stained walnut planks are roughly the same width as the pine had been.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/spg_architects_living_area_chair_ottoman_charles_ray_eames.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"637\" caption=\"true\" src=_-2.html class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 770px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 770\/637;\" \/><figcaption><span>The living area includes a chair and ottoman by Charles and Ray Eames. Photography by Peter Murdock.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the exterior, SPG swapped out rotted siding for Western red cedar, again milled to the original dimensions, then stained it gray. Jalousie and divided-light windows gave way to uninterrupted double-glazing, improving both sight lines and energy efficiency. Glass technology also came to the rescue for the deck balustrade, previously just posts with swagged rope. Laminated low-iron glass&mdash;a Saarinen-worthy innovation, for sure&mdash;satisfies safety codes while dissolving into the view of a glacial kettle pond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=index-5083.html target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&gt; See more from the March 2017 issue of <em>Interior Design<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\">Modernist royalty,<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> by marriage, Lilian Swann Saarinen<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"s2\">had met her husband, Eero, when she was studying <\/span><span>sculpture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, headed by <\/span><span class=\"s2\">his father, Eliel. After the younger Saarinens&rsquo; divorce in <\/span><span>1953, she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, with their two children and asked former Eero Saarinen and Associates architect Olav Hammarstrom to expand a fisherman&rsquo;s cottage in the Cape Cod town of Wellfleet <\/span><span class=\"s2\">for use as a low-budget family getaway. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3547,"featured_media":114930,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_image_focal_point":[],"legacy_django_id":13035},"tags":[],"id_tax_domain":[155,16],"id_tax_product":[],"id_tax_program":[],"id_issue":[],"internal_flag":[4220],"class_list":["post-114928","id_project","type-id_project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","id_tax_domain-homes","id_tax_domain-residential"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SPG Architects Transforms Lilian Swann Saarinen\u2019s Former Cape Cod Residence - Interior Design<\/title>\n
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