Pair ipe with other materials, like granite: for her largest commission to date, a young San Francisco architect channels Tadao Ando to create an outdoor room for a couple in the Berkeley Hills. A maple tree grows through an ipe deck in the garden that Mary Barensfeld designed for a family in Berkeley, California. A reflecting pool separates it from a white-granite patio, which is furnished with a Petal dining table by Richard Schultz and chairs by Mario Bellini. Board-formed concrete retaining walls double as ramps from the deck to the garden’s highest point.
Photo by Joe Fletcher .
