Five years ago, we wrote about the arrival of TOURISTS Welcome: The Hip Berkshires Escape Everyone’s Talking About. This summer, the TOURISTS team added to its growing compound, with two newly remodeled vacation home rentals (just a 10-minute walk “through the woods and across the river” from the lodge in North Adams, MA). Both homes have been gutted and remade in the TOURISTS mold—that is, “a hybrid of contemporary and vernacular styles, with an interior environment that is formally simple and uncluttered, that also feels woodsy and playful,” says architect Hank Scollard, who collaborated with owner Ben Svenson and interior designer Julie Pearson on the redesign of the rentals. (A third home will be renovated this winter and available to rent by next spring.)
Today, we’re visiting the kitchen of their 1388 Mass Ave rental, previously a two-family residence that has now been converted into a single-family five-bedroom home. After removing structural walls in the middle portion of the building in order to create an open floor plan that would include the kitchen, dining room, and sunken living room, the team went to work reimagining the kitchen.
“The kitchen was inspired by the design of TOURISTS itself, which can best be characterized as a form of ‘rustic modernism,’ ” says Scollard. Below, the design team walks us through the details.
Photography by Chris Mottalini, courtesy of TOURISTS.
See also:
- The Inn at Kenmore Hall: A Stately New Bed & Breakfast in the Berkshires
- Carved in Wood: The Bespoke Home of a Self-Taught Carpenter and an Interior Designer
- Steal This Look: A One-Room Cabin in the Catskills
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