Photograph

Potash-McCabe House: Hand-painted Farm-house Kitchen – Photographs of mock-up

01/06/1987

Mock-up

Three photographs from the mock-ups prepared for testing colors until they reached their right balance and harmony, before the kitchen was painted.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., San Anselmo, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Potash-McCabe House: Hand-painted farm-house kitchen 1987

Work of Art for Project, Hand-painted Interior

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Steven Duff, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Hand-painted walls and built-in furniture in pale sea green, light transparent yellow, pale blackish red, very pale blue, and light yellowish green. Varnished gouache applied on wood surfaces prepared with gesso.

Contents

Photographs

References

Scientific Research

Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...

Projects

House for Daniel Potash and Maureen McCabe 1986 to 1988

1341 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo, CA, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1988

Client:

Mr. Daniel Potash and Ms. Maureen McCabe

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou, Chester Cervellino, Mark Brinner, Stephen Duff, Kleoniki Tsotropoulou

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure

Project cost:

$150,000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions

Complete reconstruction of existing house, with emphasis on the house kitchen. Hand painted interiors, hand-plaster work, furniture, and garden terraces; benches, seats, table, fireplace and floor of kitchen --all built and painted by C.E.S. Total construction 2,500 square feet.