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Residents of the valley’s first affordable rental apartments settle into their new spaces, which just happen to be designed by star architect Stephen Dynia. By Julie Fustanio Kling
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A new East Jackson home was built looking toward the future. By Dina Mishev
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A family relocates to Jackson Hole from the West Coast, and remodels a house to create a home they’re comfortable in. By Elizabeth Clair Flood
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10 / WHAT INSPIRES ME Nona Yehia, architect and cofounder of Vertical Harvest
30 / ARCHITECTURE: PALMER HOUSE A clean, contemporary home in Shooting Star
12 / FAVORITES What we want this season
32 / ON THE MARKET Properties currently for sale, from $585K to $10-million-plus
16 / MUST HAVE: PLANTERS It’s not just what’s in your planters that makes a statement. 18 / NEIGHBORHOOD: ASPENS Tour one of the oldest and most diverse neighborhoods on the West Bank
34 / SHOPPING TRIP: BEND, OREGON A mighty river flows through this town at the foot of an iconic mountain range. But Bend is just different enough from Jackson to warrant a visit. 40 / DESIGN: MATTERHOUSE A modernist showroom in the mountains
20 / TEN TIPS: COLOR Three decorators share their secrets to using color in a home.
64 / HOME SWEET HOME Loving life on the flanks of Snow King
26 / ARTISAN: EMILY LACOSTE Art inspires Lacoste’s floral designs at Lily & Co.
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Carney Logan Burke designed Dina’s home; she added the climbing wall on its north face.
IT’S AMAZING HOW MUCH being away from home can make you think of and appreciate it. Or maybe, considering I’m fortunate enough to call Jackson Hole home, it is not that amazing. This past year, a substantial amount of travel has meant a substantial amount of time to think about and appreciate this valley. Whether I was one or eight time zones away, my mind often wandered back to Jackson Hole—both to its community and also to the brightly cozy house here that I love. As I type this I’m in Majorca, an island off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea. Citrus trees dripping with fruit grow absolutely everywhere. Streets are narrow and cobbled and several hundred years old. Climb a Majorcan mountain and the 360-degree view from the top always ends in the ocean. It’s the exact opposite of Jackson Hole. Except something here feels very familiar. This rugged island has the same community energy as Jackson Hole. It is not easy to make a home in either place—you have to really want
it. People living in Majorca do so because they want to. It’s rare someone moves to the island for a job; Jackson Hole is the same way. When you have a population there for the place, it creates a special energy. While traveling, when I tell people I’m from Jackson Hole they almost always ask what my favorite thing is about living here. It has been in the last year that I’ve found my answer: this energy stemming from a shared love of place. I’m not the only one who feels this way. In this issue’s Home Sweet Home, pg. 64, longtime valley residents Kelly and Jeff Ward share why living on the flanks of Snow King Mountain is so special. Elizabeth Clair Flood writes about a home in “California Dreamin’ ” pg. 56. The owners loved this home’s location so much they opted to do a full remodel rather than buy somewhere else. Julie Fustanio Kling lets us into her home, and that of a couple of her neighbors, in the valley’s most recent affordable housing project in “Finding Home,” pg. 44. Longtime valley reporter RANGE ISSUE THREE 6
Mark Huffman writes about the Aspens in our new department, Neighborhood, pg. 18. Each issue going forward we’ll use Neighborhood to give you insight into what life is like in different residential pockets around the valley. Looking at home in the valley on a micro scale, we offer Ten Tips on using color, pg. 20. John Moses, the managing editor of the Jackson Hole News&Guide, took a break from the hardhitting reporting he does at that newspaper to ask local landscape experts about their favorite planters, pg. 16. Meet the valley’s mid-century modern queen in our Design department, pg. 40. I hope you enjoy this issue of Range as much as I enjoyed putting it together.
– Dina Mishev @dinamishev
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thirty-year journalism veteran who has reported for and edited publications in the San Francisco Bay Area and Alaska. He was founder and publisher of the monthly Alaska Pioneer Press newspaper. He presently edits the weekly Jackson Hole News&Guide. In younger days, he built stone walls and planters from San Francisco’s unique Franciscan formation stone and vintage reclaimed architectural elements.
MARK HUFFMAN,
(“Neighborhood: Aspens,” p. 18), is a native Californian who has been back to that state once since uprooting himself in 1978. Today he reports and edits copy for the Jackson Hole News&Guide and, with time newspapering in Aspen and Vail before making it to Jackson, is approaching thirty years in the business.
These days, Bend, Oregon-based writer STEPHANIE (“Shopping Trip: Bend,” p. 34) is a frequent contributor on design subjects to 1859 Oregon’s Magazine, Bend, and Portrait of Portland. In the past she has been a magazine staff editor in New York, a technical editor in New Mexico, and a newspaper editor in Arkansas.
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ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Adam Meyer EDITOR Dina Mishev ART DIRECTOR Colleen Valenstein COPY EDITOR Pamela Periconi CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lila Edythe Elizabeth Clair Flood Mark Huffman Julie Fustanio Kling Stephanie Boyle Mays John R. Moses Joohee Muromcew Maggie Theodora CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS David Agnello Bradly J. Boner Price Chambers Tuck Fauntleroy Jeffrey Kaphan Ashley Merritt
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AD DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Sarah Grengg Natalie Connell
DISTRIBUTION Hank Smith Russell Thompson Jeff Young Georgi McCarthy
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The scale of Abbie Miller’s large-scale sculptures is almost confusing. They have to exist in large spaces. They’re larger-than-life experiments. They are the scale of a landscape, but when you go in, their scale is that of really beautiful clothing. They exist at the intersection of structure and skin, and each gives you a vastly different reading. They’re very organic. It’s like Miller has taken the topology of the mountains and abstracted it in her own craft. You can get lost in them in terms of landscape just like you can get lost in the mountains here. abbiemillerstudio.squarespace.com
WHAT INSPIRES ME
I love having intimate, unexpected experiences, and few things here are as intimate and unexpected as concerts at the Pink Garter. You get a taste of the big city, but in this personal space. There is nothing like a live show—seeing musicians who are pushing the boundaries of music right in front of you. Even when I try to hang back, I usually end up in the front row. It’s amazing to be able to watch someone’s creative process like that. Music is prevalent in my life, but I’m not good at it. But the process of creating, there are so many parallel applications to that. Some of the most inspirational nights I have had in town have been concerts at the Pink Garter. I abstract what musicians are doing and why, and that drives me in my own work. 50 W. Broadway, 307/733-1500, pinkgartertheatre.com
Normally, I’m strictly a savory person and don’t like sweet stuff at all. But the way Persephone’s Kouign-Amann is made—intricate layer after layer of croissant dough—reminds me of a sculpture. They are so surprising as a pastry structure, and perfectly balance the sweet and savory. $3.75, 145 E. Broadway, 307/200-6709, persephonebakery.com
NONA YEHIA Founding partner at E/Ye Designs Food is very important to me and what you serve it in is very important as well. I have a lot of Jill Zeidler’s pottery in my house. Filling her pieces with food just makes me very happy. Jill makes a series of things, but every piece is unique because of the process it went through. Her work is subtle and quiet, but through its making it has real beauty. Sue Fleming carries her work at Workshop. From $32, 180 E. Deloney, 307/733-5520, jillzeidler.com
ARCHITECT NONA YEHIA LIKES WORKING “on as many different scales as possible at once.” This spring, the range of scales the forty-five-year-old tackles is especially evident. The Town of Jackson is installing garbage cans, tree grates, and bike racks designed by Yehia’s firm. Also, Vertical Harvest, a three-story, 13,500-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse in the heart of downtown that has been her “labor of love” for the last six years, opens. “I love to explore design at every scale and understand that there are principles that you can apply to all of them,” says Yehia, who is also the chairwoman of the board for KHOL, the valley’s community radio station. Yehia and her husband, attorney Mark Sullivan, moved to the valley from New York City with their young son in 2003. Wyatt is now fifteen, and younger sister Lucy is eleven. “Mark has loved Jackson Hole since he was eleven,” Yehia says. “The first time he took me over Togwotee Pass—I’ll never forget that moment—it left an indelible impression, and I fell in love with this place instantly. Every time we’d visit, I’d drive around pretending we lived here. Now that we do, I know that the community is every bit as inspiring as the landscape.” Here, in her own words, are some other things that inspire Yehia’s diverse body of work. RANGE ISSUE THREE 10
Mayme Kratz was part of an exhibition at the Art Association [of Jackson Hole], and I was totally taken with her work. I love repetitive elements that differ slightly. Friends here have a piece of hers of seedpods that are slides and then put in resin (shown above). Look at it quickly and they all look the same. But if you take the time to really see it, you notice small differences in each seedpod, and you get this beautiful field. I could spend days within this field noticing subtle differences. The structure of things is what inspires me most about nature. Take a field of grass; each grass has its own form, and together they create a beautiful picture. The individual is beautiful, but the whole is stunning. maymekratz.com
Photography: Mayme Kratz artwork photographed by Edward Riddell
By Dina Mishev ∙ Portrait by David Agnello
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A master perfumer in Grasse, France—pretty much the perfume capital of the world— creates every scent used in Alixx candles. The company’s teatime fragrance is the most popular with local customers, but nothing says summer more than sea breeze. The candles themselves are made from a natural vegetable-based wax, with no added color. Naturally, wicks are cotton. Mouth-blown by an artisan, each vase is unique. From $32, Lily & Co., 95 W. Deloney, 307/732-2211, lilyandcompany.wordpress.com
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Designed in Nebraska and made in the Philippines, these papier mâché animals— squirrels, unicorns, giraffes, and elephants— are perfect for Jackson Hole. We heard about one local putting several of the squirrels in her pantry. We think a unicorn would look great over your bathroom mirror. Starting at $45, Paper & Grace, 55 Glenwood St., 307/7338900, paperandgrace.com
3 / TAKE YOUR TABLE UP A NOTCH
You’ve probably spent time searching for the softest towels for your bathroom. What about soft napkins for your dining table? Los Angeles-based MATTEO Home’s linen napkins are the softest we’ve found. Their Cluny style, sewn with a crochet trim detail, is delicate yet rustic and timeless. $165 for a set of four, Twenty Two Home, 45 E. Deloney, 307/733-9922, twentytwohome.com
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The corn in Highwater Vodka comes from a distributor in Riverton, Wyoming. The oats come from a family farm in Powell. The idea of Jackson Hole Still Works belongs to longtime friends Chas Marsh and Travis Goodman. The two founded the valley’s first distillery and this past November released their first spirit, Highwater Vodka, and opened a tasting room. They commissioned local artist Katy Ann Fox to create the original painting that’s on the label of every bottle. From $25, available at local liquor stores and Jackson Hole Still Works, 3940 S. Eagle View Dr., 307/699-8998, jhstillworks.com RANGE ISSUE THREE 12
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4 / ARTISAN, AND ART-Y VODKA
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Chuck Palahniuk
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Add living art to your collection. Woolly Pocket’s Wally One—made 100 percent from recycled plastic bottles— hangs on any wall and has just enough space for an organic herb garden or a collection of orchids, succulents, or grasses. (It’s fifteen inches tall and twenty-four inches wide.) The pocketed, felt planter is available with or without a reservoir (you’ll want a reservoir for indoor use) and has a military-grade moisture barrier that will keep your walls dry. Create an entire living wall by hanging Wallys side by side and stacking them. From $40, woollypocket.com
6 / LIGHT YOUR FIRE
A fire never looked so good as when lit by a Skeem Design match. Even sitting by themselves, these matches, in twoinch and four-inch sizes, are a conversation starter. They come with blue, green, white, red, and black tips, and each color has its own label, which, if you take the time to notice and read, will make you laugh. Starting at $10, Paper & Grace, 55 Glenwood St., 307/733-8900, paperandgrace.com
7 / HIP TO BE SQUARE
Make your best cocktails yet with Tovolo’s silicone ice cube tray. Each tray—you’ll want more than one since they come in fun colors, from indigo to bright green, yellow, and orange—makes six extra-large squares (two inches by two inches each). The benefit of big cubes? They melt slower than standard cubes, keeping your favorite summer cocktail from diluting too quickly. $9, tovolo.com
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Colonial Mills’ braided storage baskets are as functional and utilitarian as they are stylish. We love the Boca Raton design for hiding kids’ toys or magazines. In winter, it’s sturdy enough to hold firewood. In summer, it can hold towels when you take a trip to the river. From $50, colonialmills.com
9 / TOAST TO THE ANIMALS
You’ve seen pint and wine glasses with bison and elk etched onto them, but have you seen the new ones at MADE, with animals rendered in 24k gold? MADE commissioned Denver’s Vital Industries to make the glasses exclusively for them. Best of all? This might be the most reasonably priced gold in the valley. From $15, MADE, 125 North Cache, 307/690-7957, madejacksonhole.com RANGE ISSUE THREE 14
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Planters can be a vital part of landscaping, but at altitude and with extreme weather conditions, not just any planter will do. Durable metal planters need liners, as they collect summer heat. Our cold temperatures crush standard terra cotta. Jackson architect Peggy Gilday notes that design flexibility and weight are also factors: Concrete is a commitment, but durable, while plastic models are much lighter. Freezeproof planters are a favorite of MD Nursery
& Landscaping Inc.’s Erin Burnham. “Nothing is 100 percent,” Burnham says, but bringing any kind of planter to a sheltered area for winter will extend its life. “The other rule of thumb is bigger is better,” she says. More soil means more moderate temperatures for roots. Allison Fleury of Inside Out Landscape Architecture, LLC doesn’t have a favorite planter, but noted plastic models are getting better. “Go with what looks good,” she says.
Loll Designs
Jackson architect Peggy Gilday is known for her bold designs, like Teton County Library, Local Restaurant, and her own home in East Jackson. So it’s no surprise that she knows about Duluth, Minnesota-based Loll Designs, which makes planters in addition to outdoor furniture. “They can be expensive,” Gilday says of the planters. “But they’re superdurable, they don’t lose their color, and they don’t crack. You can leave them out. They’re fairly thick plastic.” Agrostis Inc. landscape architect Jason Snider agrees. “It’s definitely made to hold up to the weather,” he says. Loll products are also eco-friendly—they’re made mostly from recycled milk jugs—and come in a wide range of sizes and shapes, including a sixty-gallon Mondo planter. From $138, lolldesigns.com
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When does a planter not look like a planter? When it’s in the ground. Among designs created by Verdone Landscape Design of Jackson are graceful stairways with stone planters on each side. “Our designs are more natural,” says Verdone landscape architect Brannon Bleggi. “When we do planters, they’re custom.” Wood can be melded with metal elements to create a lasting planter able to stand up to our climate and protect a plant’s roots. verdonelandarch.com
WHISKEY BARRELS
— “Half whiskey barrels” are one option, says thirty-seven-year veteran landscape designer Rolland Kuhr of Naturescape Designs. Widely available at landscape element retailers, Kuhr says the sturdy structures work in the mountains, although he does prefer to design his own planters: “It depends on the client.” Cast concrete planters also stand up well. Expect to pay about $25 for a half-barrel; 307/733-5564
THE CIVIC PLANTER
— If one’s taste runs to the creatively institutional, Maglin Site Furniture incorporates benches and other elements into the planter. These can be used “in civic projects when seating is an issue,” architect Peggy Gilday says. They also make planters that are just planters. From $300, maglin.com RANGE ISSUE THREE 16
HIGH-FIRED
— Products by Champa Ceramics of Seattle are the top pick of MD Nursery & Landscaping Inc.’s Erin Burnham. Champa makes deeply toned metal planters, and their special ceramic products—they’re high-fired and sealed on the inside so water cannot penetrate the clay—are made to withstand deep freezes. “They don’t absorb water,” Burnham says. This means they can survive our freeze-thaw cycles. From $100, champaceramics.com
ArtStone
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Ella planters are a resin product the manufacturer refers to as ArtStone. ArtStone is made of a resin composite mixture, which provides durability and strength in all environments. From $40, MD Nursery & Landscaping, 2389 S. Highway 33, Driggs, Idaho; 208/354-8816
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NEIGHBORHOOD
THE ASPENS
This neighborhood was carved from ranchland in the 1970s. Between Wilson and Teton Village, it includes 800-square-foot condos, 5,000-square-foot homes, and retail space.
By Mark Huffman ∙ Photograph by Price Chambers PEOPLE LIVE IN JACKSON for years and go to Teton Village hundreds of times without noticing the Aspens. But the subdivision, one of Jackson Hole’s oldest, lies just off Highway 390, behind Aspens Market. It has been here so long that it seems old, says resident Ron Miller. But that’s a good thing. “It’s a neighborhood,” says Miller, who lived here in the 1980s and again starting in 2010. Bret King, a Jackson lawyer and son of one of the developers, recalls that his dad and a business partner “were trying to find a way to develop an area to provide some housing—they felt things were already too expensive.” Developers Floyd King and Charles Lewton bought ranchland from Parthenia Stinnett, a sister of Cliff Hansen, the former Wyoming governor and U.S. senator who died in 2009 and whose family still ranches in Spring Gulch. The first phase of the Aspens—Teton County approved 33 lots on 41 acres—was platted in autumn 1971. This original area is now the north part of the subdivision. The next year, another 125 lots on 72 acres were approved. These were south of the original area and bordered the Teton Pines subdivision. Lots were sold with minimal fuss. A classified ad in The Jackson Hole Guide
mentioned new lots were “4 miles south of Teton Village … one acre and larger … heavily wooded with aspen and pine.” Reflecting back on his time in the Aspens in the 1980s, Miller says it was “pretty much built out even then.” County records show that development peaked in the early-to-mid-1980s, when more than 300 condominium units were built. Today, the Aspens has 75 single-family homes and 434 condos, according to Jim Fulmer, general manager of Aspen Management, which does most of the neighborhood’s maintenance. Fulmer says there are only two vacant lots left. Despite the density, the area retains a lot of what was there before, with big trees and thick brush. The winding road layout and lack of a rectangular grid slows motorists. There’s no public road, so there’s no outside traffic. That’s a big attraction, says Fulmer, himself an Aspens condo resident. After living for years in Jackson, Fulmer finds the Aspens “very quiet, even with 500-plus units.” Moose, deer, coyotes, and the occasional bear frequent the area. Adding to the “wild feeling,” Fulmer says, “you can’t cut down a tree without approval from the condo association.” In addition, lighting rules aim to keep nighttime skies dark. Jackson attorney David DeFazio likes living in downtown Jackson for its bike-to-work convenience—his office is located there—but, while his downtown home was being built, he lived for eighteen months in an Aspens condo he owns. “I liked how quiet it was,” DeFazio says, “and I enjoyed that it backed up against the VandeWater Ranch—there were moose routinely in the backyard, and I remember a black bear tearing up the trash. I thought my
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neighbor was having a wild party.” Downtown denizens may think of the Aspens as being miles away from everything, but Miller says people who live there feel centrally located. They’re away from the craziness of most tourism but still a short drive to town, to Teton Village, to Wilson, and to Grand Teton National Park. “There’s the grocery store there so you don’t have to drive, and it’s so close to the Village, and there’s the bike trail and Stiegler’s restaurant and other businesses,” Miller says. “If you don’t want to go to town, it’s a good place to live.”
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Unlike most subdivisions, the Aspens didn’t start with a bulldozing. Developers wanted to keep as many of its trees as possible. They succeeded. Today, much of the neighborhood still has a woodland feel. Some lodgepole pines are more than a century old—near 150 feet tall and so thick you can’t get your arms around them. In recent years, to combat the ongoing pine beetle infestation, Aspens homeowners have paid for about 1,200 of the neighborhood’s biggest pines to be sprayed each summer to protect the trees from the beetles.
“I LIKED HOW QUIET IT WAS, AND I ENJOYED THAT IT BACKED UP AGAINST THE VANDEWATER RANCH—THERE WERE MOOSE ROUTINELY IN THE BACKYARD, AND I REMEMBER A BLACK BEAR TEARING UP THE TRASH. I THOUGHT MY NEIGHBOR WAS HAVING A WILD PARTY.”
Within a mile along REAL ESTATE Broadway in Jackson there No one remembers what are four supermarkets lots went for in 1971, but with nearly 150,000 square in the 1980s Ron Miller feet of selling space. That’s sold a one-bedroom where the county’s 23,000 Aspens condo for $65,000. residents and millions of Today, the area is much visitors get their groceries. pricier. Most condos are Except for those who go to now selling for about Aspens Market. $600,000 for 1,200 square With just a few feet, says Brett McPeak, [ DAVID DEFAZIO, JACKSON ATTORNEY ] thousand feet of space, owner-broker at Jackson’s Aspens Market is the only RE/MAX Obsidian Real place in the valley outside Estate. “For single-family of town’s grocery row that can bill itself as a homes, there are only two on the market, one full-service market. As befits the neighborhood, at $1.5 million and one at $2.2 million,” McPeak it has a slightly tony feel to it. The market is the says. In 2015, a two-story, 6,650-square-foot house commercial anchor of the area and, like all food built in 2001 sold for $3.655 million. For better markets, is a community meeting place. or worse, the entire Aspens neighborhood is a county resort zone, meaning short-term renting is allowed. WESTBANK CENTER This is the biggest concentration of businesses outside Jackson town limits. One of the area’s THE DEVELOPERS oldest restaurants, Stiegler’s, is here. There’s also Floyd King discovered Jackson Hole in the 1950s the coffee shop Elevated Grounds and Sudachi, as a college student on summer vacation. When a sushi restaurant. Westside Wine & Spirits is he arrived to stay in 1961, law degree in hand, next to Aspens Market. Wells Fargo and Bank of he was the second lawyer in town. King met Jackson Hole both have branches here. There’s developer Charles Lewton, who had previously Teton Sports Club and Teton Yoga Shala, the created Jackson’s Hillside subdivision. The Ginger Root Salon, and the Center for Aesthetics, Aspens was King and Lewton’s first project a plastic surgery practice. Add in Blue Spruce together. They later went on to start the Rafter Cleaners, the UPS Store, a branch of home goods J subdivision, located between Jackson and store Belle Cose, and Harker Design, and you Hoback Junction. really don’t have to leave. King eventually became the town attorney for Jackson and the United States magistrate in Teton County. Development remained a side job CHANGES for him. Lewton did projects around Wyoming Before the Aspens became a subdivision it was and in Utah. King died in 2012. Lewton is retired ranchland, heavily forested and full of animals. It in Ten Sleep, Wyoming. was also a ways from most everything else. Bret King, the son of developer Floyd King, remembers going as a youngster to the area before the WHO LIVES HERE? subdividing began. He and friends spent hours “It’s really a mixed-use development,” says wandering “river-bottom property, a lot of trees, Aspen Management’s Fulmer. A 2014 survey wild animals, and good fishing,” he says. But once sent to Aspens condo owners revealed just when it was time to go home, there was a mixup. under half of owners lived in their condos fullThe boys’ ride didn’t show up. The group walked to time. About half of the condos were used by both the highway and stuck out their thumbs. “I think owners and renters. Only a small percentage we waited an hour for a car to come by,” King says. were full-time rentals. 19
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS OF LIGHT blend to produce tens of millions of shades of color. We’re able to discern about ten million of them. That’s a lot. Despite the number of colors we can see and color being everywhere around us, when it comes to color in our homes, we’re split. An all-white space can be incredibly soothing or it can feel terribly cold. Dwelling’s Kate Binger
says half of her clients “are head over heels [ ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST HANS HOFMANN, 1880-1966 ] for lots of color and the other half are really scared of it.” Whatever camp you fall into, you should find something you can use in these tips from three of the area’s designers/firms that are known for their approaches to color.
DESIGNER KATE BINGER WORKED WITH CLIENTS WHO DIDN’T WANT TO TOTALLY COMMIT TO COLOR TO BRING PERSONALITY AND POP INTO THIS GUEST BEDROOM.
If there are neutrals throughout the room, I like a big punch of color on the walls. This Marshall Noice painting fits the bill. Like the colorful rug, it is a size—42 inches—that would work elsewhere in the house. 4
Lamps are a low-commitment piece. These are finished with an emerald porcelain glaze and have white linen shades. 5
2 Layering a colorful rug over a neutral one allows the punch of color to not be so bold against the hardwood floor.
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I like playing three colorful pieces off each other in a room. Here it is the rug, lamp, and painting. This allows your eye to move around the room and feel balanced without being overwhelmed.
1 Start with a neutral grounding point like these floors, which are plain hickory that I used a charcoal stain on.
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3 If you get a colorful rug, get one in a size that can be used in multiple places. This one is 8x10. That way, if you decide you don’t like it in one room, you can move it to another room.
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Mine a favorite piece of art for color ideas. This blue and earth tone landscape marries exterior views with the interior thematically, as well as offers color inspiration.
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Throw pillows provide a quick way to translate the room’s blues and creams through eye-catching color blocks and patterns.
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Subtle gradations of color add texture and warmth, like the monochromatic gray of this area rug, which also grounds furniture on the home’s concrete floors.
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Use color to surprise for extra impact, like the unexpected pop of blue on the interior of these Poltrona Frau swivel chairs.
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GRACE HOME DESIGN’S JEN VISOSKY HAS A SIMPLE GUIDING PRINCIPLE WHEN IT COMES TO COLOR IN A HOME. “JUST USE IT!” SHE SAYS. VISOSKY USED PLENTY OF COLOR IN THIS LIVING/FAMILY ROOM.
I always have one showstopper element in a space. These punchy window treatments in red and turquoise No. 9 Thompson “Papaver” fabric provide texture and movement for the eye. 1
The sofa is covered in Pierre Frey’s neutral “Antigua Raphia” fabric, which allowed me to use window treatments that had a pop of color. I added texture and fun with pillows made in Mongolian lambswool.
4 I chose crisp white side tables, breezy lamps, and a modernmeets-rustic wood and acrylic coffee table because of their ultracool “chic cabin” flair. And, they also tie the shades to the rug, which is critical when combining patterns.
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2 A graphic David Adler rug offers contrast to the wild Roman shades. The trick to bold, bright colors is balance.
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FOR EMILY LACOSTE, the new owner of Lily & Co., a bucket of flowers inspires so many possibilities. “If flowers are sitting loosely in a bucket, they are there to be used, to be styled,” she says. What Lacoste decides to use and how she arranges blooms depends on the customer and her imagination. On a daily basis, she creates art with blossoms, making choices about color and placement. “I arrange flowers differently all the time. I personalize everything,” she says. “I think to myself, ‘This flower is for so and so because she is kind of artsy,’ or, ‘This flower is for another customer because she is more traditional.’ ” As Lacoste arranges blooms she is careful not to judge herself or her choices. “The minute I start to critique every stem placement is when I lose my creativity,” she says. For Lacoste, flower arranging is a new art form and passion. She started at Lily & Co. in 2010, when it was still owned by founder Sarajane Johnson. “I was a hostess at Sidewinders [American Grill], but wanted a job in entertaining,” she says. Flower arranging, she admits, wasn’t in entertainment and neither was it her expertise— Lacoste had never done it before—but she was curious and willing to work hard and learn.
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“Everything I’ve learned about flower arrangement I learned at Lily & Co.,” she says. For years, the shop, located just off the Town Square, offered chic bouquets, baby gifts, and stylish home accessories, as well as wedding flowers and design. Under Johnson’s guidance, Lacoste learned the art and science of styling flowers for individuals and events. “She taught me not to cut the stems too short, that everyone likes something different, and that no two flowers are the same and no two arrangements
are the same,” Lacoste says. “She also taught me to have fun and don’t take the arrangements too seriously.” Early art classes also influenced Lacoste’s design and process. “Art classes taught me to imagine things at a young age. I started at six,” she says. Throughout elementary and high school, she continued with special art programs where she worked with charcoal, pastels, and oils. “We learned it all,” she says. “What I learned about using colors and how to make them pop has really helped me in my floral design.” Lacoste likes to use greens as a base. She then begins to add flowers—dusty pink garden roses, colorful ranunculus, peonies, purple delphiniums, blue and white lisianthus, sunflowers—that come from around the world. Lacoste herself loves traditional bouquets, like ones with hydrangeas or garden roses. She also does looser and more whimsical arrangements, perhaps including a feather or two, or a single budding branch. Martha Stewart Weddings and The Knot have featured Lacoste’s work. Almost immediately after looking at a bride’s Pinterest or listening to her describe her perfect wedding, Lacoste can imagine the day—and its flowers—in her head, like a painter imagines a painting. Just don’t ask her to pick a favorite flower. “I change my mind depending on what day of the week it is and what we have. I love them all,” Lacoste says. “I love texture. I love fillers like berries, grasses, pods, and buds.” She never dislikes a flower because she never knows when its design or shape will be just the thing her art needs. RANGE ISSUE THREE 28
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THE CLIENT, WITH A BACKGROUND IN real estate development and hospitality, wanted a home that spoke of its environs, much like his other homes in California, Las Vegas, and Chicago. He also wanted the home to be intelligently scaled so as to be suitable for entertaining two or twenty people. The architects, Eric Logan and Sam Ankeny of Jackson-based Carney Logan Burke Architects (CLB), were challenged to execute a vision of clean lines and minimal visual flourish within the strict design guidelines of the Shooting Star Design Review Committee (DRC). Their client-architect relationship is built on a
“THE CLIENT REALLY GOT INTO THE DETAILS—THEY WERE PASSIONATE ABOUT EVERY ASPECT OF THE PROJECT—AND CHALLENGED US TO DO OUR BEST WORK.” [ ERIC LOGAN, ARCHITECT ]
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shared passion for the process. “The client really got into the details—they were passionate about every aspect of the project—and challenged us to do our best work,” Logan says, noting that in selecting CLB, the client was drawn to the firm’s process as much as its portfolio. The client asked for a luxury mountain retreat, with spaces that could feel intimate or expansive, depending on the size and mood of the inhabitants. An outdoor pool for lap swimming, a home theater, and a room to simulate racecar driving rounded out some client-specific requests. Logan and Ankeny responded with a series of pavilion-like structures. To address the constant dialogues between public and private living and indoor and outdoor spaces, walkways connect the different areas. Rooms can be private and secluded, like the master suite structure, tucked into a quiet north-facing corner of the building envelope. Steps away, however, are spaces like the pool pavilion and the living and family room, which invite larger-scale entertaining. This approximately 8,000-square-foot home is a marked departure from the rest of Shooting Star, whose one hundred home sites are dominated by the rustic, hand-hewn exteriors of JLF & Associates, a Montana-based architecture firm founded by Jonathan Foote, widely recognized as a pioneer of blending reclaimed materials with Old World craftsmanship. Logan describes his and Ankeny’s design as “fitting the scale of the development, but it’s definitely not the same hand.” He sums it up with this statement: “There is no barnwood.” The home’s palette includes a limited selection of materials, mostly stone and glass. The metal roof is one of the few at Shooting Star, and rumored to be the last. The client has a particular aversion to overhangs, a sticking point with the DRC, but ultimately CLB’s clean, almost barn-like designs fell within their guidelines. Colorado spruce and quaking aspens will screen the house from the road, and aspens elegantly spaced between and among the pavilion structures will further the client’s desire that his home should, as Logan says, “respond to its Wyoming surroundings.”
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The Deschutes River winds through Drake Park, which hosts fairs, festivals, and concerts all summer.
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LURED TO CENTRAL OREGON by the Cascade Mountains and Deschutes River, today’s visitors to the area’s biggest city, Bend, are not that much different than the area’s earliest settlers who came here for the same reasons, albeit with a different purpose in mind. Timber rather than scenery and recreation drew the owners of the first saw mill in 1900. The city was incorporated in 1905, and more timber companies quickly arrived on the scene, particularly after the completion of the Oregon Trunk Railroad in 1911. In 1916, the Shevlin-Hixon Mill opened here on the Deschutes River, and then, only a month later, the Brooks-Scanlon Mill started operations on the opposite bank. Given the time period and the town’s main product, it’s not surprising that Craftsman bungalows specific to the Pacific Northwest were the young city’s architectural style of choice. “At the turn of the century, Craftsman bungalows were inexpensive, easy to build, and the materials were all locally available,” says Heidi Slaybaugh, chair of the Bend Landmarks Commission and an architect with Bend firm BBT. “And that style has stayed popular. One of Bend’s largest, new mixed-use developments, Northwest Crossing, was inspired by Delaware Avenue, one of Bend’s oldest streets.” Bend has two historic districts, Old Town and Drake Park. Both date to the establishment of Bend and are tied to the timber industry: Old Town was the workingman’s neighborhood, while Drake Park was for managers. “There’s a popular story that the houses in Old Town were built from lunch box wood,” says Vanessa Ivey, museum manager at Des Chutes Historical Center. That means, “Workers took home wood in their lunch boxes to build their homes. That’s just not true; they would have been fired for that. But the mills were very committed to workers having their own homes, so they sold them wood at a greatly reduced cost, and then they were built in the Craftsman style. In Drake Park, there are also Colonial Revival homes, because managers brought house plans with them when they moved here and then built the homes from local materials.” In the years since, other styles have been introduced as people have moved here from other parts of the country. Downtown’s Tower Theatre on NW Wall Street, which was built in 1940, is an Art Deco structure. In this century, highdesert modern has become popular. Regardless of the style, the buildings reflect the resources that surround the area. “Like Jackson Hole,” Slaybaugh says, “we are committed to preserving the environment and beauty that is around us and using the materials that speak to that.”
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Vanessa Ivey leads a popular walking tour during the warmer months that starts at the Des Chutes Historical Center. This center, a museum, occupies the former Reid School, which was built in 1914 from pink lava tuff mined just across the river under what is now Columbia Park. Other stops include the Beaux Artsstyle Bend High School (now the school district headquarters) and homes in the Drake Park historic district. The latter includes that of George Putnam, who was the editor of Bend’s newspaper, The Bend Bulletin, long before he was the widower of aviatrix Amelia Earhart. “During the tour, we use the buildings and homes as the characters in a story to tell the history of Bend,” explains Ivey. “Bend has always reflected the city’s vision of itself at any particular time. It’s why the high school was built in a Beaux Arts style, while surrounding towns had a more traditional western theme. Bend had industry and saw itself at the forefront—its buildings reflect that.” The hour-and-a-half-long tour finishes across the street from the museum, at the Gothic Revival Trinity Episcopal Church, which was recently and painstakingly restored to its former glory after a fire. The museum also has a free app—Heritage Walk—that can be downloaded for a self-guided audio tour of historic downtown Bend. $5 per person for the walking tour; group size is limited and reservations are recommended; Des Chutes Historical Center, 129 NW Idaho Ave.; 541/389-1813; deschuteshistory.org Old Town, Drake Park, and other areas can also be toured by more unusual means—electric bikes and Segways. Let it Ride Electric Bikes: $100; 25 NW Minnesota Ave., Ste. 6; 541/647-2331; letitridebend.com. The Bend Tour Company: $60; 550 SW Industrial Ways, Ste. 105; 541/480-8477; bendtourcompany.com
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the Liberty was bought and renovation begun when the FBI swooped in and arrested the owner for laundering drug money through the project. After a short stint with the federal government as its owner, the building was again sold and the remodel finally finished. Spy the remains of the original stair supports to the balcony in the brick walls and walk uphill from the old orchestra pit to the front door.
Bend’s newest shopping district, the Old Mill, occupies one of its oldest sites, the BrooksScanlon Mill. While some buildings are new and built in the Bend vernacular of mill shed, two original structures—the Little Red Shed and the powerhouse—have been repurposed into commercial spaces. Find the perfect piece of stained glass or have it created to your specifications at DeWilde Art Glass in the Little Red Shed. 321 SW Powerhouse Dr.; 541/419-3337; Like Jackson Hole, Bend is a mecca for all things dewildeartglass.com. Head to REI in the electrical outdoors and looks out on one of the West’s station for any of the outdoor gear you forgot. great mountain ranges, the Oregon Cascades. 380 SW Powerhouse Dr.; 541/385-0594; rei.com/ Also like Jackson, there is hiking, mountain and stores/bend. With its three smokestacks topped road biking, and canoeing/kayaking in or near by an American flag, the brick powerhouse has town. Rather than a national park, it is national become one of Bend’s most iconic images. forest—the 2,495-square-mile Deschutes National In historic downtown, visit Lark Mountain Forest—that protects most of Bend’s peaks and Modern in the E.M. Thompson Building—built forests. in 1916—for practical and stylish homeware High elevations are accessible after Memorial that is suitable for Craftsman, lodge, highDay, when the Cascade Lakes Highway opens desert modern, and even Scandinavian interiors for the season. Twenty minutes outside of town, and exteriors. Ascent Architecture & Interiors the Wanoga Trail Complex provides a network revamped the building in 2015 and won best commercial remodel from the High Desert Design Council for it. 831 NW Wall St.; 541/797-2099; larkmountainmodern.com Several doors down, the Liberty Theater now houses Jenny Green Gallery, a contemporary fine arts gallery that features Oregon artists. While the gallery is innocuous, the building itself has a checkered past. Opened as Bend’s first movie theater in Sections of the Deschutes are flat, but there are also whitewater 1917, it lost its glamorous edge sections. Trails for hiking and biking, some of them paved, parallel when the Tower opened next much of the river in and around the town. door in 1940. During the 1990s,
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EAT WELL It will quickly become apparent there’s no need to go thirsty in Bend. With twenty-two breweries and a population of 80,000, Bend has the highest number of craft breweries per capita in the country and proudly proclaims itself as Beer City, U.S.A. It also has several distilleries and cideries. Crux Fermentation Project is housed in a remodeled AAMCO transmission shop. Food here ranges from only-asalad-please (try the Aamco, named for the previous tenant) to starving-afterRANGE ISSUE THREE 38
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of trails for mountain biking and trail running. fs.usda.gov/main/deschutes/home Wanderlust Tours provides guided trips to area caves and, for canoeists and kayakers, to the high lakes. Starting at $75; 541/389-8359; wanderlusttours.com Between the high lakes and Wanoga is Mount Bachelor. While known for its downhill and cross-country skiing, during the summer the resort’s chairlifts carry mountain bikes and their riders up the mountain. mtbachelor.com In town, the Deschutes River divides Bend’s east and west sides, and draws everyone from everywhere. Stand-up paddleboard, canoe or kayak, or float the one and a half miles from the Old Mill to Drake Park. Be sure to take advantage of the shuttle that runs from Drake Park back to the Old Mill. Rent stand-up paddleboards, kayaks, and canoes from Tumalo Creek Kayak & Canoe. $3 for an all-day shuttle pass; 805 SW Industrial Way; 541/317-9407; tumalocreek.com Bend has more than two dozen golf courses, three of which made it into Golf Digest’s most recent top 100 in the U.S. list. Northeast of the city, Pronghorn is No. 33; fifteen miles south of town, Crosswater is 51; and in town, Tetherow is 54. pronghornresort.com; crosswater.com; tetherow.com
lounge. This distillery prides itself on using local grains and fruits. Tasting room is open daily from noon to 7 p.m.; lounge is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; 740 NE First St.; 541/382-0002; oregonspiritdistillers.com The Pine Tavern is known as much for its downtown, riverside location (watch otters play) and the tree growing through its dining room as it is for a menu starring Oregon favorites, such as hazelnutencrusted salmon, Dungeness crab cakes, and locally sourced prime rib. It’s worth the trip for the hot scones and honey butter. Celebrating its eightieth anniversary (in the same Wall Street Suites was redone in 2012. location) this summer, Pine Tavern plans on serving a commemorative IPA brewed no restaurant, but rooms have full kitchens, especially for the occasion. Open daily for lunch and you are in walking distance of downtown’s and dinner; 967 NW Brooks St.; 541/382-5581; eateries. From $176; 1430 Wall St.; 541/706-9006; pinetavern.com wallstreetsuitesbend.com Built in 1920, the original Bend Firehouse Famous in Oregon and Washington for their served the city until 2000 when the fire repurposing of historic structures, brothers Mike department moved into a new building. The and Brian McMenamin renovated the 1936 Old building was then remodeled into retail, St. Francis School in Bend. In addition to rooms residential, office, and restaurant spaces, one and suites, the property has several restaurants, of which is the Brickhouse Restaurant. Diners a bakery, a brewery, a movie theater, and an here favor the steak and, curiously given the open-roofed soaking pool with a tile mural of high-desert location, the lobster. Brickhouse has St. Francis. Rooms from $155; McMenamins Old an extensive cellar of award-winning Oregon St. Francis School; 700 NW Bond St.; 541/382-5174; and Washington wines. Open daily from 4 to mcmenamins.com 9:30 p.m.; 5 NW Minnesota Ave.; 541/728-0334; Lara House Bed and Breakfast is in the brickhousesteakhouse.com Drake Park Historic District. Built in 1910 by the Lara family, who ran a farm equipment and mercantile store, the property was a boarding house during the Depression and a home for Army families during World War II. For the past thirty-four years, it has operated as a B&B. Expect A short walk from downtown, and an even comfortable rooms with an eclectic selection of shorter walk from the river, is Wall Street furnishings that could have been inherited from Suites. Built in the 1950s as the Plaza, in 2012 the your grandmother. Generous breakfasts are property was redone with an industrial lodge served in the sunroom or in your room. From $159; vibe. Bike rentals are available, and you can bring 640 NW Congress St.; 541/388-4064; larahouse.com your dogs (but please, no more than two). There’s Photography (top): Wall Street Suites, (bottom): Lara House Bed and Breakfast
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In an unassuming building in West Jackson you’ll find the state’s best collection of mid-century modern pieces. Matterhouse’s inventory is always changing, but pictured here are a Hans Wegner daybed, a circa-1960 Norwegian teak wall unit, a Le Corbusier LC1 chair, George Nelson bubble lamps, and a Johannes Sorth for Nexo Denmark dresser.
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MATTERHOUSE A modernist showroom in the mountains
By Julie Fustanio Kling ∙ Photography by Tuck Fauntleroy
LAST YEAR, GLENDA LAWRENCE spotted two Harry Bertoia wire side chairs. She was driving around downtown Jackson, and the two chairs sat neglected outside a trailer. She knocked on the trailer’s door and, when someone answered, offered to buy them. She reupholstered them, and today they are in her house. Lawrence has an eye and a penchant for sleuthing that have uncovered more than the Bertoia chairs. The petite, forty-year-old interior designer, who began her business by reupholstering furniture from her home, has put her design degree from the University of Tennessee to work by bringing a modernist flair to this cowboy town. Lawrence eventually realized she could turn her passion for modern pieces into a business. Also, she and her husband, architect Jeff Lawrence, were running out of space for her great finds in their own home. In 2013, Lawrence opened the boutique design studio and showroom Matterhouse. Before that she worked with only a few clients. Now she
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barely keeps up. In Lawrence’s workshop behind the showroom, a handwritten sign above a sewing machine reads “You will lose some sleep.” Last year Matterhouse expanded, nearly doubling in size to 1,600 square feet. It is tucked behind Atelier Ortega on Scott Lane in West Jackson. Her charrettes, or intense periods of design, feed Lawrence’s passion for working with her hands and creating beautiful things that last. “If you invest in great design, you can keep it for the duration,” she says. When I visit Matterhouse early last winter, I sit on a $4,000 couch, the most expensive item in the showroom. Lawrence found it at an estate sale and is not sure she wants to sell it because it is so comfortable and well cared for. “It would be difficult to replace,” she says. “But of course RANGE ISSUE THREE 42
Matterhouse made new cushions for this circa-1960 Borge Jensen & Sonner Denmark teak-frame sofa. Opposite bottom: Glenda Lawrence in her design boutique and showroom, Matterhouse.
Breathe it in Become a part of Jackson Hole. Karl Larsen Penguin lounge chairs pair well with a Richard Schultz for Knoll Petal table. The mobile is a licensed reproduction of an Alexander Calder piece. I will sell it if someone is willing to pay the price.” I admire a Richard Schultz Petal table and ask about an in-great-shape Eames shell chair with a price tag of $300. The chair is priced so reasonably because it’s not a real Eames, but a reproduction. Aside from some artwork and decorative throw pillows, the space is well organized, contemporary, and classically black and white, plus a purple wall. There is often a story behind every item in the boutique. There’s a set of mining boxes Lawrence found at a thrift store in Meeteetse, Wyoming, while on a road trip. Lawrence bought a pair of Penguin chairs by Ib KofodLarsen in an online auction and redid them herself. “They were covered in Jackson Pollock-style paint all over the wood with terrible fake cowhide seats,” Lawrence says. “As much as I like Jackson Pollock, the wood was restored, as well as new upholstery in the seats.” John Martin, who moved here from Los Angeles a year ago and is remodeling a home in East Jackson, was floored when he stumbled across Matterhouse. “It is a rarity, especially in Jackson,” he says. “It’s hard to find mid-century furniture, especially when it’s quality and one of a kind.” Martin has done most of his home shopping at Restoration Hardware and IKEA, but has an eye on a few modernist pieces from Matterhouse that would complete his project. Lawrence loves to work with clients to create spaces with a mix of texture, color, and well-designed, quality items. “What we love is to be able to find something and update it with new fabric,” Lawrence says. “Or to pick a palette for a house.” She uses
color sparingly—a splash of eggplant here and clementine there. Ultimately, Lawrence is “of the opinion that all walls should be white.” Most of the furniture in her collection and in her home is wood, leather, or upholstered in neutral-colored fabrics. “My favorite fabrics include wool, cotton, linen—anything natural. Man-made polyester has its place for sure, but who wants to live on plastic? Save those for commercial spaces, and choose the natural fibers for your home, if possible.” Open Monday-Friday from 12-5 p.m.; 150 Scott Lane; 307/699-7947; matterhouse.com Immerse yourself in the sanctuary of Jackson Hole. Mercedes Huff, Laurie Huff, and Molly Hawks deliver unparalleled service with an easy going approach. Let them find your perfect Jackson Hole location.
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This page: The Grove residents Stacie and Danny added color to their kitchen with stickers in a Chevron design. Stacie got the idea from Pinterest and found the stickers on wallsneedlove.com. Opposite top: A Japanese screen creates a reading nook within the apartment’s main living space. Opposite bottom: Stacie bought the kitchen table at Browse ’N Buy for thirty-one dollars, and refinished and repainted it herself. RANGE ISSUE THREE 44
Residents of the valley’s first affordable rental apartments settle into their new spaces, which just happen to be designed by star architect Stephen Dynia.
By Julie Fustanio Kling ∙ Photography by Tuck Fauntleroy
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t first, Stacie and Danny were overwhelmed by all the space in their 1,000-plus-square-foot, two-bedroom, second-floor apartment at the Grove, a twenty-unit complex of affordable rentals built by the Teton County Housing Authority (TCHA). The couple, who have been in the valley since 2009, thought the space felt cold and empty, mostly because of its concrete floors and white walls. But still, they were thrilled. In the last six years they had lived—mostly apart—in a multitude of rentals with roommates. Most of these weren’t in the best shape or furnished with their tastes in mind. “When you have had a place furnished for you for so long you don’t know what your taste is,” Stacie says. “So it’s been a discovery period.” Since the couple—Stacie is a nursing student, and Danny is a post-production supervisor for Brain Farm—can rent their Grove apartment for as long as they want (as long as they continue to qualify for affordable housing), they want to make it their own. “I want it to have a Bohemian feel,” Stacie says. Given that architect Stephen Dynia designed the apartments with open floor plans, high ceilings, and large windows, Stacie’s goal is not an easy one. In a third-floor apartment, Jessica and Bryan, both of whom work at St. John’s Medical Center (she is an audiologist and he is in accounting), don’t have to do much to transform it into their vision. Having grown up in Chicago, Jessica likes the urban feel of the space. Furniture they already had matches the new apartment’s modern, clean form. She says she feels like she could be in the home of one of her friends that still lives in Chicago. 45
Left: Jessica and Bryan’s third-floor apartment has beautiful views of nearby buttes. Project architect Stephen Dynia designed the spaces to be bright, airy, and open. Right: The couple’s two-year-old son, Atticus, often turns the apartment’s pantry into a playroom. Across the hall from Jessica and Bryan is my apartment. After living in five different places in three years, I feel fortunate to have been selected for a Grove rental. I see the sense in the building’s green (and rusted steel) exterior. Green is the color of stability, balance, and harmony. It promotes a love of nature, family, friends, pets, and home. (Dynia explains the practicality of the building’s exterior materials palette: “Lowmaintenance building materials were used throughout to reduce cost concerns for TCHA in years to come.”) Because no one with physical disabilities applied for a Grove unit, mine is one of the building’s two ADA-compliant units. My kids, eleven and thirteen, each have their own bedroom, and we are able to keep our little dog, a Tibetan Terrier, by getting an emotional support dog license. We also keep a brown futon (that used to be my bed), an Oriental rug, and art—an eclectic collection of photographs and paintings. The art dwarfs the television. I bought two new
things: a runner and a high stainless-steel table. Both do double duty. My kids use the former as a practice putting green. We use the latter as a counter and our dining room table. Both came from Overstock.com. Four months after we’ve all moved in, I check in on Stacie and Danny. Their apartment is well on its way to Stacie’s vision of cozy Bohemian. A Japanese screen creates a reading nook outside the master bedroom. There’s a porthole mirror hanging on the wall that I recognize from my own browsing at Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Stacie shopped online, too. On Target.com, she found interesting lighting options: bathroom sconces that look like candles but are batterypowered and, for the patio, bulbous Christmas lights turned on by someone clapping. There are still a few dark spots in the main living space, but Stacie repositioned lights on the two tracks of lighting running across the kitchen and living room ceiling to hit those. At Browse ’N Buy, she bought a sturdy kitchen table, which was thirtyRANGE ISSUE THREE 46
one dollars, and repainted it. On the glossy white kitchen cabinets, Stacie created a bright turquoise Chevron design. “I saw it on Pinterest and found the stickers on wallsneedlove.com,” she says, adding that it took a while to lay out, cut, and paste. The decks of the second-floor apartments are protected by the balconies of the third-floor apartments. Since I’m on the third (top) floor, my balcony isn’t fit for year-round use, but Stacie and Danny’s is. At their former rental in the Aspens, their deck was devoted mostly to gear, including bikes and river stuff. But since every Grove apartment has a storage closet, which Stacie and Danny organized nicely to accommodate their equipment, they can enjoy this deck. They’ve split it into two sections—one for cooking and eating, and one for relaxing. “We use it a lot,” Stacie says, adding that they just began entertaining and are excited to have company for the holidays. On Christmas Day, the smell of slow-roasting meat on the grill outside
Jessica, Bryan, and Atticus in their main living space, which Jessica says feels modern, like the homes of her city-dwelling friends.
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their place wafts down to the sidewalk as I’m out walking my dog. Neighbors, some of whom I’m still meeting and others I’m getting to know as friends, love that they can walk to a coffee shop and a grocery store. Many use baby strollers and wagons to carry purchases. “You can get this [wagon] for thirty dollars at Kmart,” Jessica says as she watches me lug groceries up three flights of stairs. As far as I can tell, my kids are the oldest in the building. They could start a lucrative babysitting business. “Jackson prides itself on its sense of community, and people gather around this concept,” Dynia says. “The Grove encourages residents to interact with each other as neighbors, continuing the tradition of our exceptional Jackson community.” The Grove continues Jackson’s community tradition in another way. Jessica and Bryan had housing woes similar to mine, which were similar to those of most Grove residents.
Called “by far the most ambitious in the agency’s twenty-five-year history” by the Jackson Hole News&Guide, the Grove is being built by the Teton County Housing Authority (TCHA). (The TCHA’s next-largest project is the forty-nine-unit neighborhood beside Calico restaurant on the Teton Village Road, which was finished in 2004.) Renters moved into the Grove apartments this past fall. Before these apartments, the TCHA had only three rental properties. Eighty-seven households applied for the Grove’s twenty rental units. Only families who make less than 120 percent of the county’s median income qualified to apply. Critical service providers are given priority, but having such a job or volunteer position is not a requirement. Rents are based on occupants’ salaries. Two-bedroom units range from $1,125 to $1,325, utilities included, per month. In addition to the twenty rental apartments, Phase I of the Grove includes four commercial spaces. TCHA plans to move its offices into two of the four spaces. The other two will be rented to businesses at market rates. Over two more phases, forty-eight ownership units will be built at the Grove. Phase II consists of six fourplex buildings slated to be a mix of affordable and employment-based housing. Construction on these is underway and scheduled to finish in August. TCHA expects to offer the Phase II affordable units for sale through their lottery system; the lottery will be held in late spring or early summer 2016. The Grove’s price tag, once all three phases are built, is expected to be a total of $31.4 million. This includes the original cost of the land. The Grove is the eighth affordable housing neighborhood the TCHA has built in the valley. tetonwyo.org/house
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The couple lived in the valley for six years and were beginning to consider leaving. Their rent kept creeping up, and the apartments they rented—four of them over their time here—weren’t worth the money. They didn’t want to live paycheck to paycheck and worry about how they were going to raise their kids. (Jessica is pregnant with their second child.) Thanks to the Grove, they’re no longer thinking about leaving. Jessica and Bryan’s son, Atticus, two, is curious why I walk across the hall with no shoes on, but excited to show me his couch, toys, and big-boy bed. An Elmo blanket covers the latter. “This is my airplane, zoom,” he says as he flies the toy around the living room. Every morning he races his parents to the elevator. Dynia says, “The goal was to elevate the design and livability of the twenty affordable units so that the tenants will be proud to live in them for years to come.” Jessica says, “I feel like we moved into a luxury hotel.” RANGE ISSUE THREE 48
HOUSING AUTHORITY Teton County’s Board of County Commissioners founded the Teton County Housing Authority (TCHA) in 1990. (Four years earlier, in 1986, was the last time a person earning the median valley income could afford the median valley home.) The mission of TCHA, which remains a government agency, is to further the community’s goal of housing 65 percent of our workforce locally. The community established this goal in its 2012 Jackson/Teton County Comprehensive Plan. As of January, TCHA directly provides housing for approximately four hundred valley families. It has built 153 ownership units.
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arah and Miller Bushong’s Jackson dream house was finished last summer. The couple, forty-five (Sarah) and fifty (Miller), aren’t planning on fully utilizing it for a decade or so, though, until they’re retired. For now, it’s a vacation house they and their friends use several times each season. It is a well-planned and forward-thinking vacation house, albeit one that might puzzle passersby. The Bushongs’ home—800 square feet of living space set atop a two-car garage and workshop—sits at the very back of their East Hansen Street lot. There is no driveway from the street (access is from the alley). The front lawn, landscaped by Miller’s cousin, longtime local Lee Bushong, is big enough for a house of its own. Which is the point. Maybe. “When we first started talking [to Sarah and Miller] about their budget, we looked at doing an accessory structure first and leaving room for a main house in the future,” says Peggy Gilday, founding principal at Gilday Architects, which designed the home. Miller, a federal prosecutor, says, “We didn’t have any design parameters, but we had a budget—that was our parameter.” Now that the couple has spent time in the house, they’re not sure they’ll need more in the future. “We love what we have now so much, RANGE ISSUE THREE 50
This page: The Bushongs’ home is on East Hansen Street, but is accessed via the alley behind it. It was a design challenge for architect Peggy Gilday “to not make the structure look weird from the street,” she says. This is the home as seen from the alley. Opposite: Sarah and Miller Bushong initially planned this 800-squarefoot structure to be an accessory to a main house that would be built in the future. Now that they’ve lived in it, though, they’re not sure they need more space.
“WE LOVE THAT EAST JACKSON IS A MISHMASH OF EVERYTHING. TO SEE SKI BUM HOUSES THAT ARE STILL IN USE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE HANDED DOWN, TO THE NEWER STUFF, TO THE BIGGER, NICER HOMES THAT ARE WELL OUT OF OUR RANGE. IT IS REALLY COOL TO BE A PART OF THAT AND IN THE MIX OF THE WHOLE THING.” [ MILLER BUSHONG, HOMEOWNER ]
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TIP Get a builder involved early in the design process because: “It is better for everyone when builders are involved from the beginning. It allows us to understand why some of the design decisions were made, and we can also inform on pricing.” – Mike Wilson, co-owner of JH Builders, which built the Bushongs’ home “Having JH Builders on board early on helped streamline the design process and keep costs down.” – Peggy Gilday, architect “The builders met us at the lot, and they had a cherry picker there. They thought it would be interesting to elevate us and see what our views could be from the second story. That helped us envision things as the house was designed.” – Sarah Bushong, homeowner
we’ve moved on from the original plan,” says Sarah, a family practice doctor and yoga instructor. “You might think 800 square feet of living space is tight, but it doesn’t feel that way.” The space—a large kitchen/dining/living room with a bedroom and bathroom off to the east—is bright, efficient, simple, and thoughtful. After the Bushongs hired Gilday Architects, they toured some of the firm’s other projects with Peggy Gilday. “My own house really resonated with them,” she says. Gilday’s home, which she designed herself, was just a couple of blocks from the Bushongs’ lot. Hers is an uncomplicated form clad in interesting materials. There is an accessory structure, a garage/workshop/ gear room in back. Between the two buildings is a lovely lawn, made private because of the protection afforded by the buildings at
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JH Builders designed and then made the live-edge coffee table from cherry left over from the slab that was ordered to make a custom desk elsewhere in the home. Opposite: The master bath is large enough for a double vanity and walk-in shower.
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either end. “It was lean and modern,” Sarah says. “We didn’t know the specifics of what we wanted, but we knew we wanted a house that had a distinctive style.” Before hiring Gilday Architects, the couple briefly looked into Blu Homes, which designs and builds modern, simple prefab homes. “Sarah and Miller were specific about the freshness that is starting to thrive—and that you have the freedom to do—in East Jackson,” Gilday says. “They wanted to be part of that.” While East Jackson allows for the ultimate in creativity, “our budget didn’t. Everything kept coming back to the budget,” Miller says. Gilday adds, “The whole key was to take the budget and come up with something that was a very simple form and focus on one move, one element.” That element is a deck on the northwest corner of the upper floor. It has expansive views of the Tetons. And it breaks up the home’s boxiness.
“We like the challenge of balancing a budget and simplicity with some interest,” Gilday says. It’s not just the deck that has views. The northwest corner of the living space is mostly windows. There is also a freestanding wood-burning stove in that corner. The couple often sits facing the fire and enjoying the vistas beyond. “Peggy did a great job of maximizing the view,” Miller says. “It makes me feel peaceful on the one hand; I could sit and stare at the mountains, the clouds, the weather, the light—every part of it—for hours. But on the other hand, looking out there makes both of us want to get out and be in it.” Maybe that’s why the Bushongs are happy with 800 square feet. “Whether they eventually build a main house and then rent the accessory or not, it’s great that they thought ahead enough to allow for that option,” Gilday says. “This is smart master planning.”
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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ A family relocates to Jackson Hole from the West Coast, and remodels a house to create a home they’re comfortable in.
By Elizabeth Clair Flood ∙ Photography by David Agnello
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Above: The exterior materials palette—copper roofing, reclaimed Montana barnwood, and tumbled Frontier stone—makes for a rustic welcome. Left: A marble counter provides a beautiful and functional space for cooking and entertaining. Steel doors by Jeff Brandner Designs in Bozeman, Montana, lead into the dining room. Willow Creek Woodworks of Idaho Falls built the Shaker-style cabinets.
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One thing they didn’t love? Their sixteen-year-old traditional post and beam home here. They instead imagined a home with an interior that had the lighter palette of their Newport home. They wanted two rooms for their children, a more spacious master bedroom, and to move the dining room out of the living space and into its own room. After talking with architects, they decided to remodel. Over fourteen months they renovated their 5,000-square-foot home, adding 1,000 square feet, which included a downstairs master bedroom and bath. They chose to revamp this home rather than buy something else because they loved that the lot had privacy, and was also in close proximity to neighbors and the vibrant town of Wilson. To create the look and program they wanted, the couple hired Veronica Schreibeis of Jackson’s Vera Iconica Architecture and also Erin Curci and Erin Flinn of E2 Interior Design, based in Newport Beach and known for its clean coastal aesthetic and organic-luxe vibe. “We loved the innovative work of Vera Iconica. When we interviewed the firm they seemed to understand the materials we wanted to use, and we just had a connection,” one of the owners says. Because E2 had designed the family’s Newport home, the couple knew they would work well on the design team.
Top: The vanity countertop is honed and aged Calacatta marble to match the shower bench. The faucets’ finish is polished nickel. Hand-glazed Moroccan tiles decorate the vanity backsplash. Left: Showering is comfortable and glamorous with a cantilevered bench and honed and aged Calacatta marble. Walls are smooth plaster, and the floor is tumbled French limestone. All shower materials are from Concept Studio in Costa Mesa, California. 61
As was their Newport home, this Wilson remodel was an exciting collaboration. Schreibeis was instrumental in gathering the rustic materials for the home and modernizing the lines inside and outside. She eliminated balconies and shed roofs for a cleaner, modern look and also to maximize windows. “She was really good at being aware of views and where the light fell in the home,” one of the owners says. Windows weren’t just about views, though. Every time a window came up, the design team met to discuss it. Sometimes windows were adjusted for drapes, or sometimes to accommodate furnishings. The team also worked together on the cabinets. The couple wanted custom Shaker cabinets, made of white oak and painted with a grayish wash. Schreibeis designed the cabinets according to the owners’ instructions. Artisan Jaxon Ching of Willow Creek Woodworks executed the designs perfectly. To help get the palette closer to that of their Newport home, wood walls here were painted white. Other walls were subtly plastered. Also, the original orange-brown beams were wrapped in rustic barnwood. Floors were redone in reclaimed oak. “I wanted people to come into this house and feel comfortable,” one of the owners says. “I didn’t want them to feel uncomfortable about dragging snow in or scratching the floors. This is a family home, not so much a showcase home.” In keeping with the informal style, the couple told their contractor, Russ
Kane of Dembergh Construction of Jackson Hole, not to stress about getting all of the barnwood accents perfect. The tiles selected for the kitchen, from Concept Studio in Costa Mesa, California, are handmade and irregular. The owners selected all of the home’s art, including pieces by family members, several oil paintings by local artist Kathryn Mapes Turner, and a few works by Newport-based artists: “We like having a connection to our things. We don’t like to buy things that are just going to match the decor.” The decor is simple and the colors neutral. E2 and the couple together chose gray, mohair-covered couches for the living room. Logs stacked decoratively on either side of the fireplace create a hip, outdoorsy feel. Details include a large bowl of air plants and a collection of sand-colored stones linked together with rope on a coffee table. E2 and the owners were particularly pleased with the dining room, a place where a neutral palette complements large picture windows framing mountain views, carefully selected furnishings, and family treasures. The chairs at the table are covered in white linen. “We had the table and chandelier custom-made for that space,” E2’s Curci says. “The washed linen drapery added a nice, soft layer to the steel doors and reclaimed wood.” While the couple weren’t a huge fan of the original house, there is little fault to find with the surrounding landscape. Depending on where you are in the home, views are of a pond, pine trees, or mountains. “With a busy interior you miss the beauty of the outside,” one of the owners says.
A fixture from Schoolhouse Electric lights the bathroom of the owners’ son. They chose a concrete sink because the material felt “masculine and indestructible.”
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By Kelli Ward, as told to Maggie Theodora OUR HOME IS THIS PEACEFUL, tranquil escape. The Snow King trail system is right above the back of the house. We take frequent family hikes there most days. In our own yard, we see all sorts of wildlife, from moose to owls—it’s amazing seeing them up close— deer, fox, raptors, and antelope. We’ve had a moose eat the herbs in our garden, which tortured Jeff, who loves to cook. We got a call once when there was a bear messing around with the tire swing hanging from a huge pine tree in our yard. We didn’t see it, but a neighbor did and called to make sure the kids weren’t cruising around outside.
Even though we feel so removed, we’re still very connected to town. We have about 2,000 square feet of decks going around the house, and we’re out there all the time. Relaxing on the deck we don’t see any neighbors, but we see the entire town lit up below us. (We’re several hundred feet above the valley floor.) When there’s a concert at Snow King, we walk. We ride our bikes to the people’s market and the farmers market. We watch Snow King’s Fourth of July fireworks from our driveway. Last year, we parked our camper in the driveway, popped it up, and the kids watched from in there. And then there’s the county fair. We have a bird’s-eye view of the fairgrounds. As soon as the first truck rolls in, the kids get excited about riding the rides. We watch the setup, then enjoy the lights and sounds of the carnival all week until, finally, we watch everything get broken down. When we bought this place twelve years ago, it was the only house we looked at.
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