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Article: POSTMODERN BAUHAUS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 20, 1987
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architects design for themselves.
As you enter the small beige clapboard house of Don and Michiko
Hisaka in Cambridge, you will see what you expect from a dwelling
of the early 19th century. A flying staircase with curved railing
sweeps up from the vestibule.
But the stair treads are thin plaques of pale marble, glued on
with epoxy. "We tried a runner but it looked too dark," says
architect Don Hisaka.
Nor is the flooring quite orthodox. It's not so much the
material or pattern, a dark gray slate with small white squares on
a fine white grid. What is odd and unsettling is that the pattern
doesn't line up with the straight line of the walls but slopes off
on its own diagonal.
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