The house, created by the project of Ryan and Bill Ebil, in a series of others highlights the openness, deliberate nakedness and seeming insecurity

Passing the gallery

Text: Dmitry Kopylov

Materials: - (c) Alan Weintraub/Arcaid

Magazine: (74)

"My home is my castle!" - this aphoristic utterance of the English largely determined the styles and forms of modern world architecture. In pursuit of original solutions, designers, designers and decorators are ready to go for any tricks, but they will definitely face the problem of "protecting" the home. Maybe this is why the project of Ryan and Bill Abil looks very general against the general background - his “helplessness”, the utmost openness to nature. California is a unique region, unlike any other in the world, but at the same time, a resident of any country, with the exception of Chukotka and Lapland, will see landscapes characteristic only for his homeland. Fertile French and Rhine valleys, the mountains of Spain and Italy, the dark sands of the Sahara, Japanese cherries buried in the gentle lilac flowers, tropical Norwegian fjords, and cute birch groves, lovely to our nostalgic heart. California is a multi-moulder white sandy beach, submissively surrendering to the fierce and menacing, or the gentle caress of the Pacific surf, sparkling waterfalls, vineyards, Disneyland and Hollywood. Throughout the world, you will not find such a number of stunningly beautiful men and women and you will not find anywhere so stylish and unusual architecture, graceful and sometimes "cacophonic" forms which attract everyone’s attention. In California, it is absolutely impossible to build a template and sad. The monotony is simply sickening this area - the historical “rookery” of the artistic and artistic elite of America. The project of Ryan and Bill Abil at first glance is contrary to common sense. Their house in a series of others highlights the openness, deliberate nudity and seeming helplessness. This is achieved by the fact that the interior and the small garden surrounding the house are inseparable from each other, being a vivid embodiment of the philosophy of "openness of the world." Exotic and most ordinary plants (in fact, this is a masterpiece of refined and aesthetic floristics) smoothly flow from the garden through the open verandas of the first floor and visually capture the space, not associating with the infamous "Day of the triffids." The light emanating from numerous chandeliers and lamps, further emphasizes the mysterious originality and exoticism of a small park, not so noticeable in sunlight. Mixing a variety of styles and trends in the house of Aibil does not cause dissonance. The children's bedroom, moved here, it seems, from Fire Pleia, Colorado, organically coexists with the parent bedroom, typical of Louisiana and Georgia. The mannered puritanism of the dining room and toilet room, typical of New England and Pennsylvania, does not violate the idyll of the Boston living room with a piano and bookcases. A truly Mexican-looking table on a summer terrace with a stone pyramid in the center. The fireplace, immersed in a luxurious mirror wall, soaring above it, stylized as an ancient Roman basilica, playful carelessness in the arrangement of different-sized furniture and accessories - this is, without doubt, New York. Ryan and Bill Abile created a refined and delicate miniature - their own California. A special world expressing the delicate balance between nature and man.