Modern Design Meets the Center-Hall Colonial in Washington D.C.

It was a case of unusual bedfellows: an Italian couple based mostly in Washington D.C. approached native structure agency Fowlkes Studio with a Nineteen Eighties brick Colonial and a powerful assortment of pedigreed European modernist furnishings. The right way to mix the 2 right into a household residence?

Fowlkes, which is run by husband-and-wife workforce, VW and Catherine Fowlkes (they studied structure individually—he at Harvard, she at MIT—whereas residing collectively), rose to the problem by deftly streamlining each exterior and inside. Out went the window shutters and the middle corridor. In got here the Poul Henningsen entrance door mild, the Finn Juhl sideboard, and the  customized cabinetry instead of partitions.

It’s a makeover that reworked the home from the child subsequent door to worldwide sophisticate. Let’s take a tour.

Images by Jenn Verrier, courtesy of Fowlkes Studio (@fowlkesstudio).