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A stainless-steel hood custom-designed by a California artist mimics the lines of the poured-concrete island.
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It’s no surprise that Sherry Matthews takes home decorating
seriously. The quality of her very life depends on it. A life-long
sufferer from allergies, Sherry is the award-winning dynamo
behind Sherry Matthews Advocacy Advertising, the Austin-based agency that handles only clients who have an ax to grind for the common good.
Sustainable design is high on her list, so Sherry knew exactly what she wanted from architect Dick Clark’s design for her new home: the greenest environment it would be possible to construct. Not a problem for Clark, Matthew’s close personal friend and an
architect whose eponymous firm has been involved for nearly three decades in what he labels “common sense design.”
“Green design is really about principals we used to apply automatically, but seem to have forgotten when air conditioning came into the picture—like orienting a house to the sun, figuring how to capture the breeze, collect rain water, things like that,” ... more
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