In the Press

In the worlds of architecture and interior design, it can be a slippery slope from fantasy to folly, and holding the line requires imagination as well as subtlety and restraint.That’s no small feat in a place as bewitching as San José del Cabo, Mexico, where the house of Michelle Pitcher and her family manages the task with uncommon grace, offering an object lesson in the happy union of contextual sensitivity and pure magic.

Sarah bune was a psychotherapist before she was a designer, which may explain why—when she and her husband bought a 19th-century workman’s cottage in Greenwich Village—she spent the summer sleeping on an air mattress in the unrenovated space before even bringing in an architect. “I wanted the house to tell me exactly what I should do to it,” she says. And she combed books and archives for deeds, drawings, blueprints, anything that would give a clue to the building’s history, so that “everything I did would be true to its identity.”