Apartment with the Brass Cube by Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects

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公寓位于斯德歌尔摩市区一栋19世纪末的公寓内，邻近Humlegarden公园的街区内点缀着各国领馆，显得庄严而整洁。经Claesson Koivisto Rune改造后的公寓安逸舒适，让业主夫妇能在繁忙的日常工作之余得到一个平息沉淀的安宁空间。

Ola Rune arrived at the apartment by bicycle, looking very much like your archetypal Scandinavian designer: funky glasses, drop-crotch pants, a strangely bulky synthetic scarf wrapped around his neck. “it’s a Hovding,” he said, which I later discover is a Swedish-made bike helmet that inflates a split- second before a collision, like an air bag. Rune is a founding partner of Claesson Koivisto Rune, one of the most influential architecture and design practices in Scandinavia, and he has chosen this apartment, in a stately neighborhood above Stockholm’s Humlegarden park, to show off his firm’s handiwork.

The apartment, in a fin-de-siecle building on a street filled with embassies, is owned by Ursula, an Austrian transplant to Stockholm, and her Swedish husband. (Private and press-shy, Ursula has only shared her first name for this article.) He’s a management consultant, she’s in finance – they both have frenzied work lives and wanted an apartment that would be a cozy sanctum, a place that radiates ruhig, which, Ursula explains, is German for quiet, still, serene.

▽ 壁炉、松软的沙发、木质的餐桌让公寓显得宁静安详，门廊处悬挂的凳子时钟为空间带来了一分戏谑，a quiet, still, serene apartment

设计师将巧妙地利用限制性的“L”形平面，将两个割裂的空间分别转化为私密空间和公共空间，而位于拐角处的厨房成为了公寓的焦点。一金一白两个巨大的岛台占据着厨房的中心位置，将所有的厨房电器隐藏起来。不远处，来自丹麦设计师的小沙发静静倚靠在窗边，旁边草绿色的粗线地毯是两个孩子玩耍和小憩的小天地。

开放式的厨房让忙碌的女主人不至怠慢了客人，在烹饪时仍能和客人尽兴聊天，而孩子们骑着三轮脚踏车来回穿行，公寓显得热闹非常。

The layout is L-shaped. Rune first viewed this as a limitation, until he and his partners decided to divide the apartment’s two segments into private and public spaces, which fuse together at a kitchen that’s also a sort of salon. Here they hid all the kitchen appliances and storage in two blocky custom- built islands – one in white Corian, the other in smudgy brass – and, to face them, placed a little sofa by the Danish designer Finn Juhl. The piece sits atop a circular grass-green shag rug, where Ursula and her husband’s two young children play and sometimes take naps.

One imagines stopping by the house on a random weeknight for dinner. Ursula is still cooking. (“I’m always late when I cook,” she said,“so I wanted a kitchen where I could face my guests, talk to them, and not feel too rushed.”) You take your drink to the sofa and watch as the children gleefully ride tricycles through the apartment.

▽ 一金一白两个巨大的岛台占据着厨房的中心位置，two blocky custom- built islands located in the center of the kitchen

▽ 岛台内隐藏着所有的厨房电器和储存空间，all the kitchen appliances and storage are hidden inside

▽ 俏皮的眼镜凳子悬挂在窗边的沙发上房，而后侧墙角微微翘起，仿佛可以随手撕开，sunglasses chair hagging over the sofa， behind it the wall look warped, as if it could be peeled back like parchment

长达40英尺的花旗松皂洗木板铺满了整个公寓，巨大的尺寸让设计师不得不动用起重机，将材料从侧窗运入室内。这种低调的奢华在公寓中好不引人注目，但仍让发现的人们惊叹不已。公寓的女主人Ursula在伦敦萨奇画廊对这种地板材料一见钟情，在了解了其详细历史后，她毅然决定在自己的公寓中使用这种在百余年中漂洋过海，辗转北美、欧洲多地，最终落户德国南部的木材。而她对所有细节的求知欲也让Claesson Koivisto Rune赞赏不已。

Bikes inside? This is quite a dispensation on any wood floor, but especially on these giant soaped planks of Douglas fir, which measure up to 40 feet in length. The planks are so long that they had to be inserted into the apartment by crane, through a side window. “Most people wouldn’t notice how the wood doesn’t break － it’s continuous,” Rune said. “But once you know it, it’s a luxury, it’s a treasure.”

After first seeing such flooring at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Ursula learned of Dinesen, the Danish company that sells them, and of how they are harvested from 200-foot trees in the south of Germany. “The trees are descendents of the Douglas firs imported to Europe from the Western United States in the 19th century,” said Ursula, who is that kind of homeowner － she wants to know all the details. And that’s exactly how Claesson Koivisto Rune prefers it.

▽ 奢华却低调的木地板铺满了整个公寓， the giant soaped planks of Douglas fir

事务所的联合创始人告诉gooood：“对生活极富主见的业主会激发我们的创造力，设计将愈发符合个人生活习惯，并带上独特的个性色彩。对公寓的归属感让我们更加大胆、在其中尽情发挥我们的才能和创意。”

柔和的灰色墙壁、长长的木地板、宽敞客厅中央无骨设计的软体沙发，这一切都让公寓显得轻盈而宁静。而悬挂在墙上、来自名家设计的两把造型独特的椅子 －或像墨镜、或是时钟，以及其后微微翘起、带来错觉的墙角设计，更是给公寓带来了一份轻松和戏谑。

而这种优雅的小玩笑似乎无处不在。连接厨房和极简风格卧室的走道衣橱前厚重的帷幕让人产生身处后台的错觉。而在主卧浴室中，汤碗状浴缸后的窄墙上贴满了来自葡萄牙的蓝白瓷砖，如迷宫般交错混杂。

“When we meet clients with strong personal ideas about their life, we are able to be even more creative, and the result of the project becomes both more personal and characteristic at the same time,” said Rune, 50. “We make some kind of bond, which feels like their apartment also become ours.”

In Ursula and her husband’s apartment, that context is one of lightness and tranquility: creamy gray walls, those sweeping soaped floors, an unstructured sofa by Piero Lissoni plopped smack in the middle of the vast living room. The only real artworks in the apartment are two funky chairs suspended from the walls － one by Markus Hofer that’s also a clock and one by Philipp Schweiger that looks like a pair of sunglasses. Behind the floating spectacles, in the corner, Schweiger bent and then painted a piece of steel, making the wall look warped, as if it could be peeled back like parchment.

This elegant trippiness pops up elsewhere. The kitchen is connected to an airy minimalist bedroom by a long hallway wardrobe that’s draped in heavy curtains (walking through, you feel like you’re lost backstage). In the master bathroom, a giant soup bowl of a tub by the Italian company Agape is framed by a narrow wall covered in a puzzle of mismatched blue and white Portuguese tiles.

▽ 连接厨房和极简风格卧室的走道衣橱前厚重的帷幕， long hallway wardrobe that’s draped in heavy curtains

▽ 同样的帷幕延伸进卧室，保持了空间的整体性，same curtain in the bedroom

▽ 主卧浴室迷宫般的蓝白瓷砖墙，puzzle like blue and white tiles wall

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