‘Let Nature Dominate & Use Architecture to Frame the Experience’

by Emilie Froment | Apr 11, 2022 | Design & Architecture, Dining, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows, Wine & Spirits

This resort-style guest venue is dedicated to wine, food, & the natural landscape breathes life into a cherished local landmark in California. Located minutes from downtown Healdsburg, in the heart of Russian River Valley, and originally built as a winery in the...

A Legacy of Ancient Malian Knowledge Previously Threatened by Extremist Groups is Now Available as a Digital Treasure Trove

by Emilie Froment | Mar 27, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, Events, Featured (Slider), Home Decor, Lifestyle, Posts, Travel

  You might know that Mali’s ancient Timbuktu manuscripts have been endangered for years due to political unrest. These manuscripts contain centuries of African knowledge and scholarship on topics ranging from mathematics to human rights. After the...

Owners in the Untamed Spirit of the Wild West Share a Love for Disciplined Japanese Culture

by Emilie Froment | Mar 18, 2022 | Climate Control, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lighting, Posts, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows, Wealth

  The four-bedroom home is arranged around a series of garden courtyards that complement the home’s sweeping views over a pond to the Tetons beyond, creating a setting the owner’s call Tengoku, Japanese for ‘paradise’. Tengoku Residence embraces its...

Yellowstone Residence: Like a Barnacle Clinging to its Precarious Perch in Big Sky, Montana

by Emilie Froment | Mar 7, 2022 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  Perched at 2, 470 metres on the side of a mountain in Montana’s Madison Range, the massing and materials of this house are sourced from the powerful landscape – as is its mood. The exterior of the house is a composition of Cor-ten steel and board-formed...

A 1960s Residence is Reimagined and Hovers Over a Nature Reserve in California’s Bay Area

by Emilie Froment | Nov 19, 2021 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Climate Control, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  Affectionately dubbed the ‘doughnut house’, it had an open area in the centre containing an internal courtyard – entering the home involved first walking through and underneath it, followed by a spiral ascent to the main level courtyard. ‘We’d never seen...

Etched into a Cliff with Jaw-Dropping Views and Design Cues from River Curves, a Textural Landscape and Luxury Yachts

by Emilie Froment | Jul 25, 2021 | Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  Overlooking the Swan River, Infinity Views is nestled into the cliffside above Perth’s sought-after Blackwall Reach. The structure and composition of this residence is extremely efficient by necessity. Conceived as a mechanism to communicate the expertise of...