Adam in front of a Borie hut on our recent trip to the French countryside.  These are scattered all over the Provence countryside — they are typically one-room cabins for shepherds to weather out storms or cold nights.  They also usually have enough space inside for a fire and shelves built into the dry-stone walls on the interior.  Apparently they were built initially as a way to make use of the many many stones that had to be cleared from farm fields, since medieval times.  !!

Cozy photo of the Cabin taken by recent guests and new friends, Manuel and Ea from Lucerne, Switzerland.

A Cabin in a Loft now has an extended workshop space in 56 Bogart in Bushwick.  You can expect to see more cabin studies, furniture, and objects in the coming months.

Morning in the treehouse.  Photo by Andreas Serna.

A Cabin in a Loft is written up on Architizer, “Houses within Houses”

Excerpt:

Though the Bushwick cabins, like Berlin’s Hütten Palast, are positioned as places of leisure, more or less, the design is deserving of more serious consideration from architects and urbanists alike. As Chiao explained to us: “As much as the Cabin is allowing me to fund my own work and create my own space that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford on my own, it is also a suggestion for an alternate model of domestic inhabitation, one built on spatial economy, sharing, and self-action.  The environment itself is also a vision for creating nimble space that bends, grows, and embraces changes in the lives of the inhabitants.” Thus Chiao is crafting and inhabiting an alternative housing model that she believes functions as “a living system.”

Terri and the cabins featured on An Afternoon With…, a great online project by Michael Mundy and Nhi Nguyen about people and their spaces.  Full story and photographs here. 

Hi !  A Cabin in a Loft will be making a three-week inspirational and spiritual trek out to Nepal this fall.  The entire loft will be available while I’m gone.  Please see the RATES page for details.

A Cabin in a Loft will open as a bed & breakfast mid-September 2011.  See airbnb for details and availability.