Instead, he and his wife Stephanie, along with their two young children (their third is out of the house), sought to create a space that blurred the line between indoor and outdoor living. “In general, we really stayed away from technology in the house,” Trollope admits. But if cartoon analogies are to be made, the 50-year-old entrepreneur’s home-which features slabs of stone floors and wood ceilings-would fit more seamlessly into an episode of The Flintstones. Considering his role creating cutting edge technologies, one might believe that his new Lake Tahoe home would look like something out of The Jetsons. Photo: Douglas FriedmanĪs the CEO of Five9, a publicly traded cloud software company, Rowan Trollope knows a thing or two about technology. The ceiling wood planks are raw sugar pine by Jim Morrison Construction. The Trollopes’ kitchen includes oak stools in a jet black finish by E15 and countertops and black splash in Cambrian black granite with a brushed finish by Da Vinci Marble. We kept it very simple,” Nicole Hollis explains. “We intentionally didn’t do lighting hanging over the island or over the kitchen table. Sam Cochran A low-tech home just outside Lake Tahoe With its taught volume, limited materials palette, and engagement with the landscape, Berke’s pavilion builds on that tradition. The overall identity speaks to what Berke calls “the trajectory of classic modernism in New England.” It was in this corner of Connecticut, after all, that midcentury trailblazers such as Eliot Noyes, Marcel Breuer, and Philip Johnson reinvented the image of American domesticity, one glass-wall abode at a time. “Before you enter, you don’t quite know what’s going to be revealed,” she notes. (“That trellis says come here,” Berke jokes.) Step through the door, turn the corner, and you are greeted by a panorama of window walls that frame the sylvan vista. The gravel motor court, however, gives way to a dashed line of rectilinear pavers that unfold beneath a simple black metal trellis, beckoning visitors. When guests arrive they are greeted by a seemingly monolithic expanse of gray brick, its staggered façade concealing the entrance. Through careful siting, ingenuity of fenestration, and other tricks of transition, Berke crafted a nuanced sequence that delays gratification, introducing the scenic surrounds in one spectacular sweep.
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