Great design doesn’t finish when you go home if you’re a member of Apple’s Industrial Design team.
San Francisco’s SFGate has published new pictures showing the home of long-time Apple industrial designer Peter Russell-Clarke, one of the inner sanctum of designers who work with Jony Ive.
Russell-Clarke is named on multiple Apple design patents — including ones for the iMac, iPod nano, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. With that kind of résumé, a house that is anything less than a stunner would be a missed opportunity.
Fortunately, Peter Russell-Clarke doesn’t disappoint.
The land the home is built on was bought by Russell-Clarke and mechanical-engineer wife Jan Moolsintog in 2009. The project was then built with the aid of San Francisco and Hawaii-based architect Craig Steely, who completed the work in 2012. As with the aforementioned Apple devices — which fit a whole lot of functionality into limited space — Russell-Clarke’s home packs many features into a relatively modest 1,800-square-foot plot.
As with any self-respecting Apple employee, privacy is the name of the game, too. According to Craig Steely, the main issue was “how to build a glass house to capture the view and sunlight that still allows for a level of privacy.”
It’s certainly a whole lot different to Jony Ive’s surprisingly traditional $17 million “Billionaire’s Row” mansion.
Check out more images at the link below.
Source: SFGate
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
4 responses to “Drool over the spectacular home of one of Apple’s top industrial designers”
I don’t know. That probably feels a lot like living in Facebook.
I live down the street from them, I can see them getting dressed and stuff, but the view the other way is far more entertaining.
I definitely wouldn’t want to be that exposed to the public like that. It looks cool if the glass side was on a cliff overlooking something like the ocean or a lake or something that doesn’t have a lot of people looking in seeing everything you are doing. Otherwise, it’s a decent looking building, i just think it fails in the privacy area.
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