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– rift-cut white oak floors, walls washed in light – and Peter Zumthor-style craftsmanship – an exterior clad in handmade clay brick tiles, each uniquely mottled – might seem impossibly unlivable for a busy family. For architecture firm Atelier Kastelic Buffey, such contradictions, though,

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