An extraordinary indoor/outdoor house in San Francisco, in which the heroically scaled, custom Nacho Carbonell light sculpture breaches the ceiling plane and “grows” into the second level. The owners - final image - have serious vision: Both are software engineers and Silicon Valley pioneers. Ruchi Sanghvi was the first female engineer at Facebook and later lived in Bali while working for Dropbox. (It was Bali, says Sanghvi, where “I went from being a minimalist to a maximalist.”) Her husband Aditya Agarwal has a few Facebook firsts of his own on the resume, too. The couple hired architect @john_maniscalco_architecture, AD100 interiors firm @the.archers.inc, and landscape designer Bernard Trainor (@groundstudiolandscape) to co-create a family residence that embraces modernist rigor but is “warm and inviting,” says Sanghvi, adding that Richard Petit and his team at The Archers were commissioned “specifically to soften the architecture and introduce elements with a handmade quality.” Says Argawal, “We want people to know about our culture when they enter our home. But we also want to express the spirit of our family, the things we hold most dear.” Full story in February AD and linked in bio. 📷 @samfroststudio styling @michaelreynoldsnyc text @mayer.rus