The client wanted a modern house that would easily integrate indoor and outdoor living to take maximum advantage of the site’s garden landscape and sweeping views of Sagg Pond. We were inspired by Samuel Marx’s 1952 Tom May house in Los Angeles, where a glass-clad first floor is surmounted by an upper volume of stucco cantilevered over a swimming pool, with a flat-roofed cabana at one end. Our design, following this precedent, consists of two stacked, offset rectangular volumes with minimal detailing.