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WI, United States
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Villibunk
WI, United States
Alice is a graphic designer and plays viola in a chamber group. Bob works in bond investments. They live in Evanston, IL in a renovated house unofficially credited to Frank Lloyd Wright. After visiting the remarkably interesting but somewhat understated project it is hard to think someone else could have done it. Bob and Alice furnish it in the most understated minimal fashion and love the place.
For a weekend and future retirement retreat they found a forest site in Wisconsin near Lake Michigan that reminded them of a verse from Longfellow’s poem “Tale of Acadia”. The first line being “This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks-”.
After the initial construction was complete they and their children liked Viilibunk so much they proceeded into the next phase and the next and now the fourth, it is complete. The first was an open living space for sleeping, working, visiting with a separate sauna, mechanical room, and passageway defining entry connection to the forest beyond. The second phase was an office and guest room in the sauna wing. The third addition, an outdoor shower and fireplace, followed by a private elevated master bedroom in the final phase. The same wood finishes continued on the exterior and interiors to tie all the sections together.
Viilibunk is an invented name combining “viili”, a common home made Finnish-Swedish “yoghurt” with “bunk” a simplified spelling of a Swedish word for” pot”. Alice is Swedish-American and remembers growing up with this cultural yoghurt. Bob is English American thus the Longfellow verse. What more could you say about “Viilibunk” than it is a personal American tale blending site, culture, design and poetry made real.
For a weekend and future retirement retreat they found a forest site in Wisconsin near Lake Michigan that reminded them of a verse from Longfellow’s poem “Tale of Acadia”. The first line being “This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks-”.
After the initial construction was complete they and their children liked Viilibunk so much they proceeded into the next phase and the next and now the fourth, it is complete. The first was an open living space for sleeping, working, visiting with a separate sauna, mechanical room, and passageway defining entry connection to the forest beyond. The second phase was an office and guest room in the sauna wing. The third addition, an outdoor shower and fireplace, followed by a private elevated master bedroom in the final phase. The same wood finishes continued on the exterior and interiors to tie all the sections together.
Viilibunk is an invented name combining “viili”, a common home made Finnish-Swedish “yoghurt” with “bunk” a simplified spelling of a Swedish word for” pot”. Alice is Swedish-American and remembers growing up with this cultural yoghurt. Bob is English American thus the Longfellow verse. What more could you say about “Viilibunk” than it is a personal American tale blending site, culture, design and poetry made real.
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