Fab 40: Eggleston Farkas, Seattle
John Eggleston and Allan Farkas established their practice in 1999, and in the past decade have built up a portfolio of residential design in the American Northwest. Together with Jon Kwon, the trio have worked on a variety of scales, building everything from small cabins to generous rural homes.
The hard-wearing wooden construction of the award-winning Methow Cabin is well suited to its role as a stopover for cross-country skiers, while the Needham Residence in Washington is built above an existing concrete bunker, a solid foundation for the steel-framed house above. Theirs is a very rural modernism, never skimping on quality materials, given the often rugged surroundings, but never competing with nature in terms of formal invention.
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Blackman Cruz store, LA
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Commonwealth Utilities S/S 09 collection
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BlackWhite House in Bethesda, Maryland by David Jameson Architects
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Methow Cabin, by Eggleston Farkas Architects, Seattle
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Hotel Erwin, Venice Beach, California
Illustration from the Monkey Bar by Barry Blitt, New York
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Interior of the Monkey Bar
Illustration for the Monkey Bar by Paul Cox
My Best Fred, NYC
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Neal Creek, Hood River by Paul Mckean, Oregon
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Beaker & Flask, Portland
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Beast, Portland
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Laurelhurst Market, Portland
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Le Pigeon, Portland
Installation by Johanna Grawunder in Robert at MAD, NYC
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Speakeasy - Rye NYC
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Speakeasy - Clover Club, NYC
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Speakeasy - The Violet Hour, Chicago
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Speakeasy - The Varnish, LA
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Speakeasy - Bourbon & Branch, San Francisco
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Diamond House, XTEN Architecture, LA
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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