Molly’s Cabin, designed by Adam and Katja Thom, sits easy on the Canadian Shield

Molly's Cabin, seen from the lagoon side, in Pointe au Baril, Ont.It’s no wonder the Group of Seven’s J.E.H. MacDonald put brush to canvas here. It’s raw. It’s quiet. It’s powerful. Whipped by constant wind, the jack pines bend over like old, arthritic men. Long chunks of craggy Canadian Shield break the shimmering water’s surface; in their cracks and crevices, junipers and hens-and-chicks fight for drops of dew.

And it was here, at Pointe au Baril, Ont., that the then-fledgling young architecture firm of Agathom Co. built Molly’s Cabin on their own chunk of shield more than a decade ago. As reported by Carolyn Ireland in these pages in 2009, and as John Bentley Mays’s two-time “cover girl” for both Cottage Life and Azure magazines , the modestly-clad cabin with the tent-flap-inspired roof as designed by Adam and Katja Thom for Mr. Thom’s mother, Molly, was a modernist nod to Georgian Bay cottages of old, with exposed rafters, hard-wearing surfaces, a stone fireplace, bug screens aplenty and gaslights, flashlights and candles to illuminate the inky night.

And that’s why, a few weeks ago, my stomach filled with butterflies as the Thoms’s boat was unhitched and the choppy, half-hour chug across the channel began. On this rainy day, I would finally lay eyes on Molly’s Cabin … would it live up to its reputation? I suppose before I reveal that, a little background is in order. In the 15 years I’ve been writing as the Architourist, many of the architects, designers and builders I’ve profiled have become acquaintances. A handful of these – the ones I’ve broken bread with – have become much more than that. And a very few, such as husband-and-wife team Adam and Katja Aga Sachse Thom, have become dear friends. This adds pressure to what I report, especially when others have done it first, and better.

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