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Entry Name: Lake Cabinet
Firm: Min | Day
Owner(s): Paul and Annette Smith
Photographer: Larry Gawel

The cabinet is the primary built feature in the master bedroom of a vacation house on a lake in rural Iowa. The Lake Cabinet challenges the modernist notion of the detail as the expression of a joint {between two or more elements}. The piece is essentially an 11’-4” x 6’-0” x 1’-6” storage cabinet lifted 12” above the floor. The architect studied the form of water ripples from several photographs of the lake. From these they developed a range of parameters for a computer animation of the behavior and interference of rippling water. The result is a massive cabinet with a surprisingly supple surface quality.
Jury Comments: Using water as a metaphor is so appropriate on this site. This cabinet uses simple materials and cutting edge technology to great effect.