About Steven Elmets Architecture

Steven Elmets Architecture is a boutique architecture practice located in Princeton, New Jersey. Our projects are residential, bespoke and exquisitely detailed. Rooted in over 40 years of experience, the first decade of these years was spent in the office of I. M. Pei working on projects as varied as the Louvre in Paris to an apartment for Steve Jobs in  New York City.

The success of our projects derives from listening carefully to our clients’s needs and their dreams. The result: a home that fulfills a client’s desires. But in carefully listening we infer, we interpret, we extrapolate, we enhance to go beyond what the client has described to a place that is familiar nonetheless. The result: a eureka moment on the part of the client: we recognize this design; it is what we always wanted even if we did not articulate it. This is the stuff dreams are made on, both for client and architect.

The architecture and design that you will discover in the photos on the portfolio pages may look wildly divergent in style. What knits this body of work together into a coherent whole is the consistent application of the elements of design developed and refined over the course of  a career. In addition to the ancient Roman architectural ideals of commodity, firmness and delight, we add ingredients most important to us: scale and proportion, light and air, precision, an overwhelming dedication to detail.  For Steven Elmets Architecture, it is the use of detail that recurs across projects, underlying structure to transcend mere style.

Email: selmets@mac.com

Telephone: 617.953.0102