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Seattle designer Terry Hunziker is a strong admirer of what he calls “the Japanese aesthetic—the simplicity of form, the horizontal line, the relationship of outside to inside.” A sensibility closely in tune with nature pervades his work, and the peaceful nobility of the 17th-century Katsura Rikyu (a transcendent Japanese villa that is one of his favorite structures) can be subtly felt in all of his projects—spanning the globe from Singapore to La Jolla, California—as well as in his home-furnishings collections for David Sutherland. Textured materials in palettes of stone, ivory, and other muted tones are offset by ebony window frames and polished dark beams. In his own home, a whale vertebra shares space with Russian Empire chairs and a ceramic pot brimming with moss, while in another residence, satiny horizontal wood boards stripe the walls of a bath, riven here and there by vast windows that frame a romantic rocky bay. terryhunzikerom

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