Design collective Framestudio has completed the renovation of this mid-century house near San Francisco, which was designed by architect Henry Hill in a boomerang shape around a swimming pool.
The house called Ridgewood is located in Alamo, a suburb 20 miles east of San Francisco, and was completed in 1959 by Bay Area architect Hill.

Featuring two glazed wings that open up to views of San Ramon Valley and Mount Diablo, and an irregularly shaped swimming pool, Framestudio said the house is one of Hill's "dramatic midcentury homes".
But its history since completion has been "patchy", including being abandoned, renovated and extended, and had left the house "in quite the state", according to the studio.

"Putting together a patchy history from the real estate agent, we understood that the home had at one point been abandoned, then subsequently been updated by two previous owners," it explained. "Those owners had stripped virtually all of the original interiors, including signature elements like the indoor planter box at the entry which gave the original architect, Henry Hill a reputation for being a 'flamboyant modernist'."

Framestudio's refurbishment, designed for a couple who were about to become empty nesters, aimed to preserve existing details where possible, update the house in the style that followed the ethos of its original architect, and fit the needs of the new resident.
"We preserved the few original interior ...