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NAPLES, FLORIDA : COURTYARD HOUSE

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Naples House: Wrapping up

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Naples House: Wrapping up

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NAPLES HOUSE – CONSTRUCTION

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CATSKILL MOUNTAINS – THE RUBBER HOUSE

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MANHATTAN – ROOFTOP APARTMENT

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photography by Thibault Jeanson for ELLE DECOR

RHINEBECK – building the koi pond

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NAPLES HOUSE – CONSTRUCTION

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MANHATTAN – PARK AVENUE LOFT

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Such an honor!

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WOODY CREEK COLORADO – RANCH

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Files for Joe Vance

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Lighting Plan (20)

WASHINGTON, CONNECTICUT – HEARTH HOUSE

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GARRISON, NEW YORK – INDOOR SWIMMING POOL

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RHINEBECK – BUILDING THE KOI POND

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WOODY CREEK RANCH – COLORADO: OLD FASHIONED BARN RAISING

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ESTATE – RHINEBECK NEW YORK Rock Garden Installation

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RANCH – WOODY CREEK COLORADOLandscape Installation

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RANCH – WOODY CREEK COLORADO

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ESTATE – RHINEBECK NEW YORK Master Plan, New Conservatory.

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T Magazine

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THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHES "Swimming Place in the Dunes"

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BEDT PARK

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NY Times Magazine July 2010

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PARK AVENUE LOFT – SLIDESHOW

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[[Show as slideshow]]

WATERFRONT RESIDENCE – NAPLES FLORIDA

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Architectural Digest Jun 2010

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WESTERN COLORADO – WORKING CATTLE RANCH

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Into the West

[Architectural Digest June 2010]
This project is featured on the ‘Architectural Digest’ website. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

ROCK GARDEN: ESTATE – RHINEBECK NEW YORK

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ASPEN – BUTTERMILK MOUNTAIN

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ASPEN – BUTTERMILK MOUNTAIN

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UPPER WESTCHESTER ESTATE

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THIS ELEGANT CRAFTSMAN-STYLE HOUSE DESIGNED FOR AN ACTIVE FAMILY OF FIVE CRIED OUT FOR INVITING OUTDOOR SPACES CLOSE TO THE HOUSE--A SORT OF ACTIVITY MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND THE SURROUNDING FOREST: FLAT AREAS OF GRASS WHERE THE KIDS COULD SAFELY RUN AND PLAY GAMES, DESIGNATED SPOTS NEAR THE KITCHEN FOR OUTDOOR COOKING AND DINING, PLACES TO RELAX IN THE SUN OR IN THE SHADE, QUIET AREAS TO GET AWAY FROM THE OTHERS, PLACES TO SWIM, TO READ, TO DREAM.

LONG ISLAND – SWIMMING PLACE IN THE DUNES

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THE CATSKILLS – NEW YORK: ZOOM. TOM PRITCHARD ET LA RUBBER HOUSE

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AD France Jan 2010

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ZOOM. TOM PRITCHARD ET LA RUBBER HOUSE

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WILLEM DAFOE’S RUBBER HOUSE (as was published on Architectural Digest Magazine)

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A FINE EXAMPLE OF MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE, THE RUBBER HOUSE IS LOST IN THE CATSKILL FORESTS SO PRIZED BY NEW YORK ARTISTS. THE ACTOR TELLS HOW THIS BUILDING–LITTLE BY LITTLE–GREW ON HIM.

ZOOM: TOM PRITCHARD AND THE RUBBER HOUSE

A graduate of Princeton University in 1967, the architect Tom Pritchard strives in all of his work–residences, apartments and large-scale landscapes–to embrace and integrate nature with built form. The key to his approach is to pare away to the essentials, reducing or eliminating ornament to reveal stark form—a philosophy particularly evident in the Rubber House.

A LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION

The famed choreographer, Eugene Loring, when describing what he wanted in this house, asked for something totally different than the simple white house Richard Neutra had designed for him in California and which he described as living in a “work of art.” For the Rubber House, the main idea was to achieve a level of abstraction using simple and unadorned forms, to eliminate wherever possible anything that might come between the house itself and the nature surrounding it.

WITH A BUDGET IN MIND

The Rubber House is wood construction sheathed in plywood; all of the exterior surfaces are covered with neoprene. “This particular rubber sheeting gives it the monolithic quality I was looking for,” explains Tom Pritchard. “Using this kind of material for a private home was obviously a bit controversial, but our budget was very limited and we could only afford to use commonly available materials.”

SHADOW AND LIGHT

Once through the front door, one enters into a space with a vista of floor to ceiling glass windows, a complete relief from the stark black rubber entry façade. Further inside, the kitchen is bathed in light from the glass greenhouse above. Here one can see the absence of details—no roof overhangs, window or door frames—just openings–solids and voids that allow for the play of shadow and light.

A FAMOUS BUSINESS

In 1975, Tom Pritchard started his office, Madderlake Designs, Architecture + Landscape. In addition to the houses and landscapes of well known stars (Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Calvin Klein…) and numerous residential projects in Manhattan, he has created the artistic and administrative headquarters for the New York City Opera, dance and rehearsal studios for American Ballet Theater, a seven thousand acre ranch in Colorado, and numerous other works in Canada, Puerto Rico and Florida. Tom Pritchard has also designed two projects in France, one at Cap d’Antibes and the other, his own country house situated on ten acres of rugged wilderness in the Languedoc.

Willem Dafoe’s Rubber HOUSE : Interview published magazine.

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“The Rubber House was built in 1981 for choreographer Eugene Loring, though he died -shortly after the project was completed. It was designed by Tom Pritchard, a landscape -architect. It’s covered with a gray-black neoprene sheetskin, a material usually used for the flat roofs of -industrial buildings. I was looking for a house upstate, something rustic, like an old farmhouse. This was the first place my real estate agent took me to see, and I was annoyed because the Rubber House was clearly not what I had said I was looking for. But as I continued to search, I kept returning to have another look. Visit by visit, I was seduced, and I finally bought it. One of the best features of the house is that nature has a dialogue with it. The inside looks out, and the outside looks in. While the side exposed to the road is austere, with few windows, the other side is floor-to-ceiling glass, which frames the landscape like a living diorama. When I first got the place, there was so much glass that birds were flying into it and killing themselves. For a while I put sheets of paper over the glass when I went away, but the birds have somehow learned to accept the house. They fly around it. The cat from down the road has never forgiven me! My best memory of the place is lying in bed, watching a storm roll in from over the horizon.” —Willem Dafoe.

MANHATTAN – WEST VILLAGE GARDEN

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FLOURISH DESIGNS: INSPIRATION – MADDERLAKE

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WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US?

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LONG ISLAND SOUND – TAVERN ISLAND

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EAST HAMPTON – OCEANSIDE ESTATE

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GREENWICH ESTATE

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URBAN GARDENS

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ESCAPING FLOWERLAND : LANDSCAPE DESIGN BEYOND THE GARDEN.

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Tom Pritchard is the owner and principal designer of Madderlake Designs, a landscape and architecture design firm based in Williamsburg and founded in 1975.
In a rare double appearance, Pritchard and partner Jody Rhone reveal a new scope of landscape work that often defies convention, and sometime even common sense.

Join us for a preview of the last ten years of their work-heretofore unseen-from rooftop to ranches, from the New York area to Palm Beach, France and mountain town of Colorado.
Pritchard and Rhone combine their diverse beginnings in architecture and fine arts to reconsider an approach to landscape design that may just amaze you.

THE CATSKILLS – NEW YORK

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Interview Dec 2008

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O At Home Fall 2006

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Dwell Sep 2003

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Architectural Digest Mar 1999

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Hanajikan Jan 1997

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Hanajikan Dec 1996

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Elle Decor Oct 1994

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Home Oct 1991

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NY Times Magazine Apr 1991

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Visual MD 1991

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New York Magazine Oct 1987

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NY TIMES MAGAZINE AUG 1986

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House & Garden Nov 1983

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New York Magazine Aug 1983

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