Double Duty Beauty

You know that terrible moment when you think, “I give up!” You just can’t move that sofa one more time. First it was here, and now it’s there. And it’s never quite right: too much sun on your back or not enough, great seating for a party but lousy for a tête-à-tête.

Well, here’s consolation: architects Tom Huth and Bruce Skiles Danzer moved the furniture around in their getaway condo in Provincetown, Massachusetts, for years before they felt they had it right. And this is a couple with credentials longer than their condo’s nine-foot sofas. Both graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Huth (rhymes with “tooth”), who has an office in Newton, Massachusetts, is in his thirtieth year of designing high-end New England homes, while Danzer is busy creating the interiors for architect William Rawn’s projects—most recently the performing arts center at Williams College.

Competing goals for their getaway lie behind the pair’s years of acquiring, schlepping, arranging and rearranging. “The big challenge for us,” says Huth, “was how to make a summer beach house that can accommodate a never-ending stream of guests—inevitable in Provincetown—and at the same time create a winter place that’s comfortable for just the two of us.”

Another consideration, he adds: “How to show all the art we’ve collected in a modern, gallery-like setting and still treat it like someone actually lives there.”

ARCHITECTURE
Tom Huth, Thomas R Huth Architects, and Bruce Skiles Danzer Jr., Lab [3.2] Architecture
INTERIOR DESIGN
Tom Huth, Thomas R Huth Architects, and Bruce Skiles Danzer Jr., Lab [3.2] Architecture
PRODUCED BY
Kyle Hoepner