Just north of Jackson Hole, a new stone home lies in a sage-filled field, with unimpeded views out to the Grand Tetons. It was a coordinated effort between interior designers from WRJ Design and architects at CLB, both based in Jackson. “It was very collaborative and great to work with CLB,” says...
Forty-five minutes from the airport, over the mountains and away from a Los Cabos Corridor jammed with tourists, lies a 1,000-acre desert oasis. It’s nestled into an agrarian plain between mountains and sea, and it’s called Costa Palmas. It’s being developed with hotels, custom homes, condominiums...
Alas, Cersaie – the international exhibition of ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings – has been postponed until Sept. 27 – Oct. 1, 2021. But Ceramics of Italy has posted a series of videos with manufacturers called “Two Minutes With…” to keep us up to speed until...
Just in time for a retreat from the pandemic in Northern California, the Island Camp at Delta Coves is now open. It’s a private clubhouse and activities center for property owners at the waterfront community where every homesite comes with a dock. Designed by architect Tim Slattery of hospitality specialists...
It’s time to set the record straight on this Shou Sugi Ban business. The correct term is Yakisugi. Yaki means burned. Sugi means cypress. Some say that years ago, a Cal Berkeley student misinterpreted a combination of Chinese and Japanese characters – and left us with the misnomer. “Yaki was written...
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer place. The top two winners in the 2020 Matsumoto Prize competition – for both juried and people’s choice awards – are sited on one of Carolina’s most sought-after beaches. The affluent community of Figure Eight Island was sculpted from sand in the1960s by landscape...
Architect Walter Scott Perry has an enviable background. He studied with Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania. Graduating in 1968, he moved to New York and worked there and in New Haven – with I. M. Pei, Hugh Hardy, and Malcolm Holzman. But it was a 1970s stint in a Midwest farming environment...
There’s not much that can top the eight-mile beach at Grace Bay in the Turks & Caicos. Its sand is like crystal. The water is turquoise. And the natural reef just off the beach offers some of the best snorkeling in the Caribbean. But the 59-room Hyatt Andaz Hotel and the adjacent 74 condos...
Leave it to photographer Paul Clemence to find one of the more intriguing churches in Washington, D.C. – a city known for cathedrals of all shapes and sizes. He spotted the First Church of Christ, Scientist at 16th and Eye Street – on Black Lives Matter Plaza – and immediately started shooting....
Tom Kundig’s newest book – his fourth – is split 50/50 between small and large projects. For good reason. “There’s a pretty clear narrative out of the office and my career – that everything comes from the residential footing,” he says. “We look at residential work as the soul of our architecture.”...
