Winfield Street

A Bespoke Personal Oasis

We first worked on this property twenty years ago. It was one of the earliest things I did in San Francisco.  Now that I think about it, I probably swung a hammer there.   

The earlier project had “opened” the house, literally.  We’d cut an oversized hole, about ten feet square and installed a custom stair that curves gently up.  Funny side story: the stair builder showed up on a weekend, and no-one was on the job, so he broke in and installed the stairs… obviously, a character. 

The rest of that job was to expose the gable roof, build the vaulted ceiling and install new clerestory glass, up to the new ceiling height. 

Years later, the owner — a single man — called to say that he wanted to do the next phase of the work: a bathroom. But not just any bathroom.  He wanted a piece of minimalism that would be luxurious, sublime. 

We worked with every fine detail and closely with the builders to coordinate structure and finish from the beginning of the project.  We integrated material choices with a floating ceiling, concealed lighting and translucent glass walls to create an earthly but immaterial sense of place, a refuge worthy of a gentleman.

The result was a truly elegant, bespoke design.