For Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk, creating the home they share in Eindhoven depended on constructing an entirely new frame within the shell of an existing 19th century building. Amidst bucolic surroundings on the city’s outer edge, the Dutch design couple behind Kiki & Joost re-envisioned a once-dilapidated farmhouse through their own architectural lens, rebuilding the original space around striking core elements, developed in their workshop. “The house is a city monument,” they explain, “So we could reimagine big elements like very large windows, but the structure of the house had to remain.”…read more at nowness.com
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