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GET THE LOOK Need a bright idea for your kitchen or bathroom?

We bring you the best new appliances, countertops and on-trend accessories to help you create your own style file.

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MODERN WHITE When a German family living in the Northwest decides to remodel their outdated suburban kitchen, they know exactly where to go – the SieMatic Showroom in Seattle. The German cabinetry company is known for its sleek, efficient components and the family’s new kitchen is a model of organization.

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GOING DUTCH When a couple with contemporary taste finds a house in Portland’s Grant Park neighborhood, but it’s a 1925 Dutch Colonial, they turn to Jeff and Jenny Guggenheim to transform its dark, outdated interior into a fresh, open space that feels like home.

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MOUNTAIN CHIC A design team led by architect Tim Hossner and interior designer Maryika Byskinewicz transforms a dark, oversized lodge in Cle Elum, Washington into an elegant proportion of light, materials and connection to its woodland setting.

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Squeezed between Washington’s Chuckanut Bay on one side and a steep incline of ferns and vine maples on the other, a home made entirely from cast concrete rises and surprises with its warmth and natural feel. McClellan Architects designed this modern masterpiece.

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After taking photos of barns her whole life, Tracey Brown and her husband Charlie build their own barn home on an apple orchard near Lake Chelan in Washington. Seattle’s SkB Architects leads the design team.

A new home in the High Desert of Central Oregon is a both a nod to mid-century design and a thoughtful reflection of its surroundings. Knotted juniper siding and rough-hewn accessories complete the look.

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EYE ON DESIGN What’s new and now in the world of design?

Classic furnishings in current colors, candy-coated lighting and fabrics, and eclectic accessories inspired by global travel.

86 HOME ON THE WATER’S EDGE On a prime waterfront site in Lake Oswego, a young family builds a new house with entertainment spaces on multiple levels. Now, whether friends approach by land or sea, the party flows seamlessly between the light-filled interior and the landscape.

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DESERT LIGHT

Recipe Index 116 Fried Roasted and Raw Vegetables 116 Roasted Squash with Yogurt

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WINE: TOP 12 NORTHWEST TEMPRANILLOS Tempranillo is on the rise in the Northwest.

Meet Earl Jones of Abacela Winery and discover our top 12 Tempranillo picks from Oregon and Washington.

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AVA GENE’S Chefs throughout the Northwest are known for cooking with just-picked produce, but Ava Gene’s owner/chef Joshua McFadden is changing the entire way fine diners view the once-humble vegetable. We talk with McFadden about this and his upcoming book, Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables.

on the cover McClellan Architects of Seattle designs a modern organic masterpiece on the shores of Chuckanut Bay in Bellingham, and it’s made entirely of cast concrete. photography ©Patrick Barta

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LETTER PUBLISHER Claudia M. Brown EDITOR/SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Kiki Meletis STAFF WRITER /

ASSISTANT TO THE PUBLISHER Laura Baughman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Donna Pizzi Margarett Waterbury PHOTOGRAPHERS Patrick Barta Benjamin Benschneider Blackstone Edge Studio James Cheng Josh Elliott Alex Hayden Greg Kozawa Shawn Linehan Aaron Leitz Josh Partee David Reamer John Valls

HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO LIVE IN THE NORTHWEST. In our day to day lives, we travel through postcard vistas in every direction for work and play. And fortunately, there are a handful of visionaries in Washington and Oregon who are inspired by our mountains, seas and fertile soils in a way that is so unique it carries the entire conversation about life in the Northwest to another level.

Regan McClellan and his team at McClellan Architects is a great example. When a family asked him to design a new house on a small site on Chuckanut Bay in Bellingham – using cast concrete – Regan responded with an elegant form that pays homage to the Salish Sea on one side and lush native ferns on the other. It’s a modern masterpiece.

The volcanic soils and burnt tree snags of Oregon’s High Desert inspired the palette for a new house in Tetherow. Neil Kelly designer Nate Ewan used earthy greys and taupes, and even sided the house with tough-as-nails native juniper.

The apple orchards and farmland vernacular of Chelan County were the impetus for a new barn home near Lake Chelan. SkB Architects of Seattle worked with the homeowners to refine their original plans, making the barn blend better into the couple’s scenic 12-acre site.

The old neighborhoods in our cities are being viewed with eyes wide open, too. In Portland’s Grant Park, rising stars Jeff and Jenny Guggenheim updated a tired 1925 Dutch Colonial with crisp new rooms and colors, and the result is fresh and current.

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Two other Northwesterners with the gift of vision are Earl Jones and Joshua McFadden. Jones planted some of the region’s first Tempranillo vines in 1995, and two decades later, the grape’s rise here is undeniable. Wine critic Eric Degerman shares the story of Abacela Winery and his picks for the top 12 Northwest Tempranillos.

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McFadden is blazing his own trail with bounty from our furrowed farms. The owner and chef at Ava Gene’s in Portland is cooking with justpicked produce in a way few others are, and changing how fine diners view the once-humble vegetable.

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We are in awe of how these people – indeed our neighbors – live in the same place we do, but dare to dream about it bold new ways. We hope you enjoy ‘meeting’ them as much as we have.

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1 2 1. RUSHING WATER Reminiscent of polished shells and tumbled river rock, the Mosaic Collection tiles from Pratt and Larson. Shown in diamond pattern MB 68 and circle pattern MB 35. Made locally. www.prattandlarson.com 2. MEDITERRANEAN SEA The Bar à la Provençale Coarse Salt Tea Towel. Perfect for drying off market-fresh produce. Available from Le Jacquard Francais. www.le-jacquard-francais.com 3. SILVER STREAM Modern art for the kitchen, the contemporary Hunley Bridge Faucet with 12” articulated spout from Waterstone. With 360-degree swivel spout. Available in 33 finishes. From Chown Hardware. www.chown.com 4. CULINARY ART The Renaissance 48” Dual-Fuel Range from Dacor, with signature Illumina blue glow burner controls. Through Dacor www.dacor.com

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1. GERMAN DESIGN Perfectly minimal, SieMatic “Pure” kitchen and solid mahogany Zanzibar Side Table. www.siematic-seattle.com

4. ART MODERNE The Fillmore Pitcher, in polished nickel, finished with a graceful wooden handle. Through www.jgarnerhome.com

2. LIGHT BRIGHT Extra deep cone shades to strike a pose over any kitchen island or dining area. Through www.jgarnerhome.com

5. INDULGE A LITTLE The Alchimie Cereal Bowl from L’Objet. Perfect for breakfast, but better for dessert.Through Hedge & Vine. www.hedgeandvine.com

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Perfect for adventurers returning home. Through Samad. www.samad.com 3. BRASSY Beautiful by itself or filled with an exotic orchid, the Kimo Container from Arteriors. Hand carved wood clad in antiqued brass foil.

Through Bella Casa. www.jgarnerhome.com 4. SWING OUT A traditional favorite updated with side swing doors, the Professional French-Door Oven from Viking. Shown in graphite gray. Through Viking. www.viking.com

5 5. SUGAR AND SPICE A blend of time-worn leather and mulled spice, the Aromatic Fragrance Pod in Black Ginger from Votivo. www.votivo.com 6. STRIKE A CORD The Wishbone Outdoor Lounge Chair, seating made with braided nautical cord and a base of stained mahogany. Available in seven colors. From Roche Bobois. www.roche-bobois.com 7. JUNGLE FEVER Urban Jungle Chlorophyll, a lush cotton tea towel from Le Jacquard Francais. www.le-jacquard-francais.com

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No detail was too precise for the homeowners. They even requested that no brackets be visible on the Silestone countertop, which was a challenge given its one-centimeter thickness.

PROJECT SOURCES CONTRACTOR Alchemy Building Company KITCHEN DESIGNER Summers Studio www.summers.studio ARCHITECT Chris Pardo Design: Elemental Architecture www.elementalarchitecture.com CABINETRY SieMatic Seattle www.siematic-seattle.com

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WHEN THOMAS FAHRIG AND MICHAELA SPAETH bought a mid 80s house in Redmond, they already knew they would remodel the kitchen. It was dark and cramped, and they wanted to let more light in. Nothing too surprising for homeowners in the grey Northwest. But what is unusual is they had very distinctive European ideas for the new space.

“They just walked into the showroom,” explains designer Cathleen Summers, who is the exclusive SieMatic dealer in the Northwest. “They were German, and wanted the engineering and the functionality of the SieMatic products.” The high-end German cabinetry is known for its streamlined, clean aesthetic, and Fahrig and Spaeth knew about SieMatic’s interior components for storing everything from dried goods to pots and pans.

Fahrig, a software engineer, and Spaeth, a stay at home mom, are the parents of three children, and wanted the kitchen to be a sleek, efficient backdrop for their busy lives. With Summers Studio’s help, the couple chose white high-gloss laminate cabinets. The clients also asked for a tall pantry with doors that open up and pocket in.

“Michaela wanted to see a “happy” yellow color in the interior when she opened up the cabinet,” explains Summers. “And SieMatic had just introduced a signature yellow lacquer accent color. The color happens to also match her KitchenAid, which was designed as an integral part of the cabinet, on a fold and glide shelf.”

When asked if the white is ever too bright, Summers explains that it’s actually quite calming. “Even our white whites are more on the warm side, and the neutral monotone works really well with the surrounding cool concrete flooring in the kitchen and as a counterpoint to the warmer finishes and accents in the living and dining rooms.”

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TO TRANSFORM A 1925 DUTCH COLONIAL IN PORTLAND'S GRANT PARK DISTRICT WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY CHANGING JOBS AND HAVING A SECOND CHILD, SUE AND NANCY HAD TO DEMONSTRATE HAND-IN-GLOVE COLLABORATION WITH THEIR TALENTED YOUNG INTERIOR DESIGN/ARCHITECT DUO - JENNY AND JEFF GUGGENHEIM OF GUGGENHEIM ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN STUDIO - AND THEIR HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDERS, BIRDSMOUTH CONSTRUCTION OWNED

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For 18 years, Nancy enjoyed life in her 1986 multilevel Hillsdale, Oregon contemporary home. Starting a family with Sue, who hails from Pennsylvania, however, made the home less desirable for several reasons.

“A change in my job required me to commute at a more congested time and doubled my travel time,” says Nancy. The Hillsdale home had two bedrooms upstairs and one down, with lots of stairs to navigate in between to reach the basement laundry. A bigger drawback was the lack of children who played outdoors in the neighborhood.

“We wanted a three bedroom house on the east side in a kid-friendly neighborhood with a laundry upstairs near the bedroom,” says Nancy.

With the help of Kathy MacNaughton of The MacNaughton Group at Realty Trust, the couple found a 1925 Dutch Colonial located within seven minutes of Nancy’s workplace by bike.

At first view, the home’s interior was not ideal. “Its bones were solid,” says Nancy, “but it was dark, and except for the kitchen, hadn’t been updated in many a year.” A heavy, poorly lit, staircase felt oppressive. The upstairs bedrooms were awkward - two huge, the other a small closet. Treacherous stairs led into the basement, and a small dark, dingy kitchen had to go.

The couple interviewed several designers and architects. One architect’s plans took up too much real estate from the back yard and outdoor play area. “It felt very uninspired,” says Nancy. “It gave us a luxurious master suite, and a nice kitchen, but didn't solve the other bedroom and family room issues.”

Living in a Dutch Colonial felt like home to Sue. Nancy, however, loved their contemporary home, and had a hard time picturing loving a traditional home as much. Clearly, they needed help.

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Contemporary Ann Sacks Savoy textured bronze field tile reflects Dutch Colonial period. CB2 walnut stools.

Three banks of Milgard Essence series windows from Portland Millwork add light and a view of backyard/ street. Rejuvenation pendant lights and shelving.

Dwell Studio for Robert Allen Sunbrella fabric on nook built-in stands up to wear. Custom table design

by Guggenheims and built by Nick Tretiak. Original interior French doors repurposed as pocket doors.

The couple’s dark iron coral piece adds visual contrast to the original fireplace surround and mantel painted with Benjamin Moore Simply White. Sconces are Schoolhouse Electric. The former wall color had aged to a dingy brown set against darkly stained woodwork, which prompted Jenny to paint the woodwork a contrasting white to create a lighter brighter feel overall. Threads of indigo turn up in indoor/outdoor Dash & Albert stair runner and Hive Modern chair. Original dark stair with enclosed railings was gutted, replaced with a wider, repositioned one.

The staircase railing and custom tapered newel post add contrast thanks to Benjamin Moore's Iron Mountain.

Enter Jenny and Jeff Guggenheim, recommended to the women by Jenny's former boss, Craig Norman at GBD Architects.

“Jenny and Jeff were able to suggest something that spoke to us both,” says Nancy.

“The existing kitchen was tucked into a dark corner and had a view of the detached garage,” says Jenny. “Inspired by a window-filled conservatory, we designed a small addition that made the kitchen a lighter, brighter hub of the home.”

To create better flow throughout, the Guggenheims made the stairs the focal point of the remodel. “Stairs are the first visual element that greets you when you open the home,” says Jeff, who by repurposing them and all the rooms in the house, created a more efficient use of the home without compromising the beauty of the project. One of the Guggenheims’ aims was to bridge the women’s desire for a more modern space with the architecture of the Dutch Colonial or “Dutchie,” as they call it. “The Dutchie is also the first home the couple bought together,” explains Jenny, “and that gave us the opportunity to create a fresh-start environment reflective of the pair.”

“Despite my enjoyment of contemporary architecture and design,” says Nancy, “I didn’t think it was right to have the house be a Dutch Colonial on the outside and a total contemporary home inside. That's where the

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Guggenheims’ brilliance came in, because they paid homage to its roots with

is where you could see a lot of hot air leaking and radiating in.” Birdsmouth

contemporary touches.”

focuses on high performance building, rather than the term green building.

The new configuration of rooms left the living room dimensions relatively

“Someone can say they’re a green builder,” says Josh, “reclaiming wood in

the same. An enlarged opening to the right near the kitchen made room for the new main stairs (and “Tall Lady” sculpture) now flooded with natural

the house and using low VOC paint, but that same house could be an energy hog, with mold growing in the walls, poorly considered systems, or leaky as-

light from three new large windows replacing the former lone one.

semblies. We focus on energy, comfort, fresh air and health within the home.”

“In terms of specific choices,” says Nancy, “we explored what Sue and I liked

“By using triple pane windows, the house is more comfortable. The heat

and disliked. After that, Jenny brought us three to four choices of, for exam-

pump employed for air conditioning and heating is twice as efficient as the

ple, tile, from which we’d choose.”

best gas furnace available,” says Josh.

Finding a good builder proved equally as challenging. Sue and Nancy inter-

Collaborating with the Guggenheims on this project was a pleasure, he says.

viewed several, including Josh Salinger, owner of Birdsmouth Construction of Portland. Nancy and Josh connected immediately because of their mutual

“They've got great taste and design ability between the two of them, and great specs on their plans, which we really appreciate when it comes to pric-

interest in energy efficiency. “When we first met,” says Josh, “I hooked up

ing out and making sure everything gets in the right place.”

a blower door and took pictures of the leaks in the home with an infrared

“In order to build a high performance house,” says Nancy, “you need to be

camera. It was a very hot summer day, and so uncomfortable upstairs, which

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A wall mount sink and toilet with in-wall carrier system helped to maximize the limited space in this new main level full bath, which replaced an original powder bath in poor shape. A jaunty Hygge & West modern wallpaper adds zest to the room. Shelf and brackets Quartertwenty and pendant by Cedar & Moss; Dal Tile shower.

Straturra Hex tile by Ann Sacks. Master bath features a freestanding bath by Victoria & Albert.

be carefully orchestrated, which makes it a good yardstick by which to

Location, location, location is crucial to any home's value, but for Sue and

measure a contractor, and an indicator of their mettle."

Nancy, it was über important. “I really wanted to be spending less time in

She admits that Birdsmouth sold them on their energy proficiency, which

the car,” says Nancy, “and to live in a space in accordance with our values,

caused them to incorporate a lot of “non-sexy things,” like the mini split

on foot, going to the farmer's market, and library.”

heat pump (one unit in the basement, and another in the attic, each hav-

“I'd never done anything like this before,” adds Sue, “but I didn’t find it

ing its own thermostat).

a strain. I thought it was an enjoyable experience. Especially since this is

“Doing a remodel of this scale can cause the budget to run out of con-

such a friendly neighborhood that you had to budget extra time to chat

trol,”says Nancy. “It was an additional cost to have the Guggenheims present at project manager meetings, but I'm glad we did it, because every time we met, their contribution helped to streamline our decision making, and answered any questions the contractor or subs had. Plus, they were always completely gracious, charming, approachable and so polite.”

“One of the overarching themes,” agrees Jeff, “was working as a team, with clients and contractor to make sure the project ran smoothly. Sue and Nancy had a baby while the house was under construction, and made sure they were involved and available nonetheless.”

“It was also important that nothing in the décor look too fancy,” adds Jenny, “because it’s a family house with kids running around with very approachable parents.” Jenny admits that she had to restrain herself at times,

with people walking by, introducing themselves. Many said very positive things about the transformation from dark to light."

PROJECT SOURCES CONTRACTOR: Birdsmouth Construction www.birdsmouthconstruction.com ARCHITECT: Guggenheim Architecture + Design Studio www.guggenheimstudio.com INTERIOR DESIGN: Guggenheim Architecture + Design Studio www.guggenheimstudio.com WINDOWS: Portland Millwork www.portlandmillwork.com COUNTERTOPS: Caesarstone www.caesarstoneus.com

not to go over-the-top, or have one element compete with another. In the master bath, for instance, she kept the toilet area private by tucking it behind frosted glass that borrows light from an adjacent exterior window.

Plumbing Fixtures: Brizo, Hansgrohe, Kohler, DXV, Delta; Kitchen Appliances: Electrolux, Faber, Miele, Sharp; Rugs: Kush; Window Covering: The Shade Store; Windows: Portland Millwork: Milgard

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The deconstructed, remodeled home received a gold level third party certification from Earth Advantage. It is fully sealed with full insulation in every wall, triple paned windows, heat pump for A/C and heating, ductwork within the conditioned space, and on demand hot water heaters. To make the home more livable with a toddler and baby, the master and two children's bedrooms are gathered together on the top floor.

A large landing serves as a play area and laundry rolled into one. A mudroom located near the backyard entrance from detached garage features a custom bench by Tretiak Works fashioned from fir recycled from the home. Custom basement utility door design is a collaboration with Birdsmouth that lets in light and encourages airflow.

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What trends do you see emerging in residential design?

GUGGENHEIM We see our clients wanting to move toward an edge of simplicity while maintaining warmth. Less clutter, less chaos, and more meaningful spaces.

Is there a part of the Northwest where you’d really like to do a project, but haven’t yet?

GUGGENHEIM We'd love to explore work in the islands of Puget Sound. The landscape and light is so unique and rich with opportunity to create a really special home.

Do you prefer clients with a specific vision or those who give you carte blanche?

GUGGENHEIM We love it when clients have a basic sense for the direction they want to travel, but allow our team creative freedom to explore new ideas and materials. Clients come to us for our expertise and to create unique details for their home - usually beyond anything they could have imagined.

What West Coast designers are inspiring you right now?

GUGGENHEIM We have long admired LA-based Barbara Bestor. Her studio knows how to have fun with design while creating truly original and thoughtful spaces. Her work taught us that plywood and laminate can be gorgeous.

What are your top three restaurants or watering holes in Portland?

GUGGENHEIM We recently started a dinner club with another set of new parents so we could have a standing monthly dinner date. So far, we've loved Davenport and Tusk. Next up is Kim Jong Smokehouse and The Woodsman Tavern.

If you could have a dinner party with four people, who would you invite?

GUGGENHEIM Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Tommy Ramone. A dinner party to end all dinner parties!

What would be playing on the stereo during the party?

GUGGENHEIM If Jenny chooses, you might hear a mix of 1950's R&B or 1960's French Jazz. If Jeff is in control, you'll definitely hear an arsenal of punk.

What inspires your work these days?

GUGGENHEIM Residential design coming out of rural Denmark and Melbourne, Australia. There are so many great textures and forms with underlying simplicity that keep us inspired here in the Northwest. We enjoy working within a limited palette relying on texture to add depth.

Jeff and Jenny Guggenheim, principal architect and designer at Guggenheim Architecture and Design Studio.

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AN ARCHITECTURAL / DESIGNER / CONTRACTOR TEAM TURNS AN OUT-OF-SCALE NORTHWEST LODGE INTO A CLEANER, MORE SERENE CONTEMPORARY RETREAT THAT PAYS HOMAGE TO THE BEAUTY OF ITS SURROUNDINGS

MOUNTAIN CHIC written by DONNA PIZZI photography by AARON LEITZ

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THE FIRST TIME A TEAM FROM RHO ARCHITECTS of Seattle entered the Northwest lodge their clients had purchased at Tumble Creek in Cle Elum, Washington, they were astonished by its dubious design choices. “There was nothing human scale about it,” recalls Tim Hossner, RHO partner in charge. “You walked directly into the main room where everything was done to emphasize its looming 20’ ceiling and massive emptiness. Its scale and spaces were really very, very overwhelming.”

Builder Burt Lockhart of Lockhart Suver of Seattle had a similar reaction, calling it “The Land of the Giants.”

“Everything was overscaled and kind of clumsy,” says Lockhart, “with huge dark, dark brown nearly black stained beams, garish finishes and a huge, phony stone fireplace centered on one wall with a glass fireplace appliance.”

“What we needed,” recalls Lockhart, “was architectural magic to bring a sense of appropriate scale to the space.”

Partner Jim Replinger of RHO Architects, who attended the initial walk through with the final team that included Hossner, Stacie Conway and Christopher Osolin, was the first to suggest inserting a steel loft structure into the yawning spaciousness.

By all accounts, interior designer Maryika Byskiniewicz of Spaces in Seattle acted as a catalyst for knitting the team of architects, builder, designer, craftsmen and clients together to help transform the original lodge into a clean contemporary home that the clients were envisioning. “The house was dark, cavernous,” says Maryika, “with a questionable vocabulary of materials used, and un-resolved volume issues.” Together, the team worked to, as Maryika puts it, “clean it up, find more balance, harmonious proportions of the space, and develop finishes that have contemporary energy that relate to the location and lives of its inhabitants.”

The existing windows were also oddly unbalanced, says Hossner.

“For a house located in the mountains, it really only had big windows on one side of the space, making it awkwardly lit. So, we opened up the south side of the house to bring more balanced daylight into the interior.”

Likewise, RHO Architects removed an awkwardly placed window in the dining area, replacing it with a large horizontal fixed window, and countering it with an inverted barn door that conceals the pantry from view as needed.

“We stole the pantry space from what used to be an outside patio,” adds Hossner, “which allowed the kitchen to maintain a clean, simple look.”

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Interior designer Maryika was looking for rich, earthy, and beautiful materials for the kitchen island to distance the look from the previous mountain lodge style. “DMA built the brass panels and was instrumental in developing the finish, which allows the material to breathe and evolve over time,� says Maryika. The dining room light fixture by the Italian company Il Fanale is 31.5� in diameter. Made of steel with gold leaf interior, it casts a warm glow over the dining table. A new horizontal window frames the mountainous landscape.

Working on a relatively tight construction schedule, the team worked together to find a viable technique that would not require sandblasting or stripping the wood. “The objective was to find the method to lighten heavy, dark-stained timber elements of the space and unify them with newly introduced flooring and wood ceilings. After much iteration,” says Maryika, “we decided to lime-wash the wood.”

“The lime washing also allowed some of the original finishes to peek through so that elements that were black bleed through as a bit of grey tones,” adds Hossner, “which worked with the cabinetry and steel in the kitchen cabinets, the loft and stairs.”

Tim Jergens of LC Jergens Painting Company and his team created many rounds of samples before the team settled on the brushedon look they were after.

“The beautiful results would not have been possible without the participation and expertise of Cathy Conner of Studio C and Fred Saunders of LC Jergens Painting, who led the team of painters on site,” says Maryika. Conner created the plaster fireplace surround using a proprietary multi-layer finish.

“The concept for the stone and adjacent walls follows the idea of making surfaces warm, tactile, and connected to nature outside, in tradition of Wabi-Sabi aesthetics of things imperfect and impermanent,” continues Maryika. “John Lambert of Lambert Marble and Tile, who knows stone and understands a designer’s intent, made it possible to create the hand-chiseled stone slab hearth and mantel.”

“We’d been looking for something with enough scale and size to create the hearth and seating nook area for quite a while,” recalls Lockhart. “We walked around Lambert’s yard, and he waved his arm around this massive block lying out in the weather. We were amazed, because quarries in this area don’t usually produce stone like this.”

“The project was a very personal one for our client,” says Hossner. “She had a lot of notions about how things should be situated.

She had a sense that there was a view past the dining room table that was worth capturing, since the house is situated on an unusually expansive piece of real estate in a woodland setting with no other houses in sight. I call it her giant terrarium view.”

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“The owner,” adds Maryika, “has well-defined color preferences and great color sensitivity. We decided on a uniform, soft color palette so as not to compete with the mountain landscapes entering the house from all angles through existing and new windows.” The fireplace and seating alcove were conceived as relaxation areas with dissimilar rich materials, but with a consistent, monochromatic color scheme, says Maryika. The once 18’ high hallway that RHO Architects lowered to half that height is now crowned with a steel loft that includes a study, and overflow sleeping area with built-in daybed for the children to enjoy.

Maryika chose to replace the former ceramic tile flooring with new, engineered MAFI oak flooring, which Lockhart initially questioned. “Then I realized it was another one of Maryika’s subtle, elegant design features that really tied the house together,” says Lockhart. “The boards are precisely laid out, with a random distribution of board widths and lengths. The joints are only at designated architectural points, either in the center of a beam or the center of a wall - for example - with butt ends all perfectly aligned.” Lockhart also worked with Maryika to detail the glass and metal kitchen cabinets which she envisioned and Ty Swanson of Pivot Custom Metal fabricated. “The idea was to make them as weightless and transparent as possible,” says Marika. “The final design wouldn’t have been possible without the participation of Burt Lockhart.”

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All the metal work, including the steel loft insert and spiral staircase visible (at left), was custom fabricated in a minimal and elegant style. “The fireplace and seating alcove present themselves horizontally,” says Hossner, “as part of our larger design strategy of trying to reframe the feeling of these once cavernous spaces.” The new MAFI “Oak Country” White Oak flooring is finished with white oil and laid in 4-5 different widths that all butt up evenly to the center of an existing beam or other architectural element.

relatively inexpensive design with a series of mechanically fastened elements stacked together in a logical way.”

“Everything about the design is very simple, without any unnecessary embellishment,” says Lockhart. Even the application of the lime wash was meticulously done - primed with Sydney Harbour Paint Company Limeproof Undercoat Sealer and sealed with Matt Wall Sealer. “Fred Saunders really nailed the brush work,” adds Hossner, “It’s really important with lime washing to be consistent, but not perfect.”

“As is often the case in solving design problems,” says Maryika, “the most challenging issue of unifying all the diverse wood elements resulted in achieving a light-filled, airy space that provides both physical and visual comfort and flows beautifully.” Clearly, working together as a well-oiled team brought about the best possible outcome: a wellloved place to call home.

PROJECT SOURCES CONTRACTOR: Lockhart Suver LLC www.lockhartsuver.com ARCHITECT: RHO Architects www.rhoarchitects.com INTERIOR DESIGN: Spaces www.maryika-spaces.com KITCHEN APPLIANCES: Bradlee Distributors, www.bradlee.net Kitchen Appliances: Wolf, Thermador, Liebherr, Miele, Plumbing Fixtures: Sigma Bridge, Julien, Waterstone; Tile Materials Source: Ann Sacks Tile & Stone

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ON ONE SIDE, THE SALISH SEA. ON THE OTHER, LUSH FERNS AND VINE MAPLES TUMBLE DOWN A WALL STUDDED WITH ENORMOUS BOULDERS. BETWEEN, A JEWEL OF AN ORGANIC MODERN HOME DESIGNED AS A LOVE LETTER TO THE STUNNING LANDSCAPE OF CHUCKANUT BAY.

ROCK OF AGES

written by MARGARETT WATERBURY photography by PATRICK BARTA

Three stories of living space are linked with a steel and concrete staircase illuminated by a custom LED light fixture made from hand-cast glass globes. “It’s so beautiful at night,” says architect Regan McClellan. “You can see the light fixture from the entry door, and it reflects in the windows and the glass railing so it appears there are about three times more lights than there really are.”

MCCLELLAN ARCHITECTS, BASED IN SEATTLE, has been designing integrated commercial and residential spaces— architecture, interiors, and landscapes—for nearly 20 years. But when the homeowners of the Bay House on Chuckanut Drive in Bellingham approached principal Regan McClellan for help building a new home for their family of four out of cast concrete, they offered the experienced firm the rare opportunity to break some truly new ground.

First, the small, waterfront site presented some constraints.

Squeezed between the shoreline setbacks and the back property line, buildable space was at a premium. “It’s one of the most restrictive sites I’ve ever worked on,” says Regan, “which resulted in a more vertical design. There are three stories of living space in the home.”

Then, there was the matter of the building material. With a wide range of possible forms, attractive color and texture, and sufficient durability to withstand the damp, salty conditions of the waterfront site, concrete might be an uncommon building material for a single-family home, but it offered many advantages. “It’s very unusual, probably the only one I’ll do in my career,” says Regan. “But it’s so beautiful.”

For the inexperienced, building with concrete can be a challenge.

Fortunately, proximity to the booming construction markets in the urban Northwest meant local builders had all the knowledge they needed. “We had a great stable of artisans to work on this project,” explains Regan. “The guys were such pros. This was child’s play to them. The thing just flew up.”

Concrete cast and completed, the next hurdle facing Regan and his team was to establish a warm, welcoming environment inside a shell made of materials more commonly associated with high rises and factories. Fortunately, inspiration was on hand: the incredible setting of Chuckanut Drive, Bellingham’s famous 21-mile cliff-hugging route along the shoreline of Chuckanut Bay, and a designated Washington State Scenic Byway.

“The initial gesture for the home was essentially a landscape gesture. Chuckanut Drive is so gorgeous. You’re basically on a sandstone cliff covered with ferns looking out over the Salish Sea. I wanted to bring that reality into the home, so we essentially created a cliff behind the home. That brought in light from both sides, creating a two sided living room. In the back is a garden with massive boulders and ferns, just like along Chuckanut Drive, and then you turn around and there’s the expanse of Chuckanut Bay. It’s a home in praise of that whole beautiful landscape.”

On the landward side of the home, a boulder-studded cliff wall is anchored by an enormous 10 foot by 10 foot piece of rock found on site during excavation, creating a literal anchor to the existing

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Above the fireplace, a Shou Sugi Ban panel made from charred cedar has been wire brushed to reveal even more of its grain. “In this house, we’re not doing high gloss finishes; we’re really expressing the character of the material,” says Regan. From the living room, residents can experience both sides of the landscape: expansive views over Chuckanut Bay, and the soothing green-andgrey mosaic of the uphill landscaping, cradling the home in natural textures and surfaces.

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landscape. Additional boulders were brought into the site to complete the wall, and local flora like ferns, vine maples, and native heucheras were interplanted between the stones to soften the edges and shade the new structure into the landscape. On the seaward side, expansive windows, inviting outdoor living spaces, and a waterfront patio invite visitors to step directly into the landscape.

Inside, it’s as if those two disparate elements fuse, creating a magical combination of cool-toned industrial elements and natural surfaces for a feel that’s simultaneously organic and cutting-edge contemporary. “If you say ‘concrete house with steel stairs,’ you think ‘Oh my gosh,’” laughs Regan. “But when you’re there, it has this wonderful warmth to it. Everything has to come together for that to work: the roughness of the concrete, the blackened steel around the kitchen, the clear fir of the window system. Even the landscape; everything’s singing together.”

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The main living area is separated from the water by a 40-foot long lift-and-slide door; when open, it creates 30 feet of uninterrupted direct access to the outdoors. “When you open those doors, you get this amazing sea breeze, and all you hear is the lap of the waves,” says Regan. “It’s just like you’re sitting at the beach.” In the kitchen, the cabinetry is made from vertical grain fir, while the darker material around the perimeter of the cabinetry is blackened steel.

finishes. Some of the concrete in the home, such as the floor, was ground down to expose more aggregate and create an uneven surface that’s more interactive with light. Other concrete surfaces, like the fireplace and stairwell walls, were left untouched, even retaining the form lines.

can carpentry tool, for the front door. “There’s so much depth to it; it looks like water, like the surface of the sea,” he says. And the kitchen is anchored by a 15-foot long live edge slab of Douglas fir—the same species of tree that grows just outside the door.

While steel may have an industrial reputation, it’s also an ore, and Regan sees it as just another natural material. It’s featured throughout the house: in the stairwell, railing, kitchen, and even bedroom. Many steel components were installed without any finish at all, which allows for the creation of subtle color gradations over time reminiscent of tree bark or stone.

That attention to the environment and landscape extends to the systems within the home, which integrate a number of sustainability features. The skylight over the stairwell can be opened to act as a chimney, releasing warm air from the home and providing a passive cooling effect. And a rooftop rainwater collection system—particularly impactful in a wet, rainy climate like Bellingham—collects water for domestic use.

Even some of the wood surfaces were additionally treated to amplify their inherent textural qualities. The exterior siding is made from cedar treated with a natural aging accelerant that provides engaging color variation and allows the wood to develop a weathered look that becomes part of the landscape.

Drawing inspiration from the human history of the Bellingham area, Regan selected a cedar slab textured with a hand adze, a traditional Native Ameri-

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The finished home feels deeply thoughtful, yet never overdone, echoing the cool, soothing colors and rich textures of the landscape just outside the window. “It’s simple,” says Regan. “There’s nothing complex, or fancy, or overwrought about it. It’s simple, but it’s just really well-considered.”

The master bedroom’s remarkable built-in bed is cantilevered out above the polished concrete floor on a steel frame, creating a spacious, airy feel with minimalistic lines. Wire-brushed burned cedar is featured here, too, providing an earthy mahogany counterpoint. The bathroom features concrete as well as American black basalt in a flamed finish.

PROJECT SOURCES CONTRACTOR: Dawson Construction www.dawson.com ARCHITECT: McClellan Architects www.mccarch.com INTERIOR DESIGN: McClellan Architects www.mccarch.com Kitchen Appliances: Thermador, Fisher & Paykel, Miele, Panasonic, Electrolux, Whirlpool; Plumbing Fixtures: Grohe, Moen, Axor; Cabinetry: Higher Plane Cabinetworks

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FIRST ENVISIONED AS AN IMPOSING RED METAL BARN USED TO HOUSE TRACTORS AND OTHER GEAR NECESSARY TO MANAGE THEIR NEW VENTURE - CHAMPION ORCHARDS - THE PROJECT BECAME, OVER TIME, A 10,000 SQ. FT. BARN/HOME WITH A LOWERED ROOFLINE, SPECTACULAR COMMERCIAL KITCHEN, FINE ARCHITECTURAL CRAFTSMANSHIP AND DARK RUSTIC SIDING THAT BLENDS BETTER WITH THE ROLLING HILLS SURROUNDING THE LAKE CHELAN COUNTRYSIDE.

THE AMERICAN BARN written by DONNA PIZZI photography by BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER

PREVIOUS SPREAD Champ surveys the team in the industrial kitchen. Mark Strain’s Juliette balcony is off the great room. TOP LEFT Barnes Welding constructed the 3-story steel staircase with wood treads; SkB recommended the vintage apple crate as a unifying element that ties all three levels together. ABOVE The great room opens onto vistas of Lake Chelan. The Stûv wood burning stove warms the great room; 16” to 18” wide Dinesen flooring is fabricated from old growth Douglas fir.

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CHARLIE AND TRACEY BROWN HAD A DOG NAMED CHAMP. He was more than a dog, says Charlie. “He was an important companion, good spirit and old soul.”

After the Browns migrated from Seattle to Manson, Washington, on Lake Chelan - they purchased 12 acres of nearby land for an apple orchard and barn they christened “Champion Orchards” after their beloved dog Champ, logo and all.

Because Tracy had been taking pictures of barns all her life, the couple used them and the internet to work out the barn dimensions, a floor plan and gabled roofline. When the project got too big, they hired SkB Architects of Seattle - Kyle and Shannon Gaffney, two of the co-founding partners, who were the lead designers on the project with Russell Blazier as design assist and project architect.

“When we were engaged,” says Kyle, “there was just a slab-on-grade footprint for the proposed red gabled barn. When they decided to use the barn to entertain family and friends, we suggested reshaping it to fit the landscape. By modeling it after a classic roof style with hay storage above, we broke down the rooflines and incorporated dormers to let light into the upstairs and living areas and to break down the scale. The dormers became bedrooms that can handle a larger than king size bed.”

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SkB Architects suggested nixing the red barn for something more sympathetic to the landscape. “We showed them some dark barns,” recalls Kyle, “which made it more a part of the orchard rather than an object alongside it. The black hued stain used on the wood siding was applied with steel wool and vinegar to help form a silver, gray patina over time.”

A pair of double carriage doors open up the barn toward the orchard on one side and the mountains and lake on the other.

Sam Beazley of Beazley Construction spent hours finding a way to weatherproof the 1400 lb carriage doors. “We used a C channel to cap the bottom of the doors and welded a piece of flat stock steel to the bottom of the C channel that protruded down two inches into a channel poured in the concrete.

Much of the raw steel was finished with Penetrol and then coated with paste wax to prevent rust,” he says.

The Browns love to entertain, so by placing the great room on the side with the kitchen and built-in pizza oven, the architects created a better sense of connectivity between family and friends. “Normally the kitchen is put off to the side, with no one walking through it,” says Kyle, “but what I like about this commercial kitchen is that it is to be circulated through by guests. It feels more like a residential space, with commercial appliances.”

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Contractor Sam Beazley of Beazley Construction, who built the barn, is also known for his BBQ expertise. He houses his spectacular smoker at the barn which is used often when the barn plays host to weddings and community events for the fire department, VFW, and Manson High School sports teams. The commercial kitchen features industrial pendant lamps imported from Europe, a professional wood burning Mugnaini pizza oven, Perlick refrigerator drawers, wine and beverage coolers. Four access points encourage an even flow of guests.

Charlie, Sam and Pedro Valdez, Beazley’s lead carpenter, tackled the wine cellar design. To create a more rustic look, they used imported split sanded cobblestones - once used as ballast in ships sailing to Colonial America - as the flooring. Pedro fashioned a bar from five wine barrels split in half, their rounded sides face the customers. The upper mezzanine steel railing by Strain looks down upon Champ’s 10’ concrete and polished stainless steel logo that’s embedded in the colorized concrete floor in browns, tans and reds. The massive logo is impervious to heavy forklift traffic. Twenty-four backlit, exposed wooden trusses held up with powder coated steel brackets continue the industrial design style.

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“The kitchen started as a gym area,” recalls Charlie, “but with the second story at 18’, we decided to locate it downstairs with patio picnic capabilities.”

The huge project - four years in the making - was an enormous collaborative team effort, with Sam Beazley working hand-in-glove with Charlie often at his side, tool belt firmly in place. “Charlie is the client of a lifetime,” says Sam. “If we came across a problem, we figured out how to solve it and then worked through it together.”

Inspiration was also a group effort. For instance, a beautiful cedar tree pulled from a lake was milled and turned into the sliding barn doors in the wine cellar and master bathroom. Three welders joined the team, some working on site. Mark Strain of Strain’s Custom from Manson fabricated SkB’s pot rack design and created the mezzanine railing. “Mark started with the big “X” design,” says Charlie, “followed by an abstract of the barn on one side and apple trees, apples and apple blossoms on another.”

To create all the wood and American steel elements in the barn was often challenging. Barnes Welding, known for such massive commercial jobs as the Cooley Dam, brought in heavy lifts to install the big pieces of steel for the staircase.

Local carpenter Mike Gallagher, who became an employee of Champion Orchards, installed the siding on the barn and laid the entire roof by himself. “Every piece of roofing is full length,” says Charlie.

“Nothing overlaps. To cut those panels would have been a shame; it’s a big architectural piece.”

The original goal to button up the roof before winter 2013, was delayed first by the installation of the big beams and later by the design dilemmas involved in creating 24 custom trusses. Greg Cowell of One Construction in Chelan began the work on the trusses in October, which included intricate black hardware and powder coated steel brackets all of which contribute to the feeling of one being in a religious sanctuary suitable for holding weddings - five in all thus far.

PROJECT SOURCES CONTRACTOR: Beazley Construction beazcon@msn.com ARCHITECT: SkB Architects www.skbarchitects.com INTERIOR DESIGN: SkB Architects www.skbarchitects.com WINDOWS: Windows Doors & More www.windowshowroom.com Plumbing Fixtures: Kohler, Grohe, Hansgrohe, Dornbracht, Franke, Chicago Faucets; Kitchen Appliances: American Range, Miele, Perlick, Vent-a-Hood, Magnaini; Windows: Loewen Windows: Windows Doors & More

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Thanks to the lack of snow that year, the job was completed by early January 2014. “We had no rain or snow until January 15th, 2014,” says Charlie, who points to the 48 lights mounted on the large beams that illuminate the entire ceiling, along with its complex construction.

“It may have taken longer than expected,” admits Charlie, “but we enjoyed the people we were working with and the process. Sam Beazley and I, for instance, were acquaintances; now we’re lifelong friends.

Our philosophy was, ‘The journey is as important as the destination.’”

Shannon and Kyle Gaffney agree. “It was a long haul to get here, but Charlie and Tracy are really awesome clients, phenomenal people.

Champion Orchards was one of our favorite projects on a breathtaking site, which makes us feel really, really good.”

Pedro Valdez, who did a lot of the finish carpentry, built the custom master bed from imported European wood remnants. The master bedroom view overlooks the orchard, which Kyle Gaffney encouraged the Browns to bring right up to the barn, rather than separate it with a 50 yard lawn. BOTTOM LEFT Guests now socialize between the rows of apple trees, sit beneath taverna lights and enjoy a glass of wine. TOP LEFT Master bathroom features rare quartz slab countertops, dark stained oak cabinets, with white glaze beadboard and hydronic heated floors.

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1) Clean, contoured bedroom lines anchored by the Ella Bed in Kismet Charcoal and Louis Ottoman in Trend Salt. From www. roomandboard.com 2) Hand-thrown Optimist Tumbler. The exterior of the mug reads “Optimist” with a dotted line and “Half Full” on the interior of the cup. From www.pigeontoeceramics.com 3)The Bella Candlesticks, fluid and organic forms from Corbin Bronze.

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1) Gold jewels for the table in cast brass, teak and marble. Clockwise from top, Aragon Coasters and Marble Boards, Gravado Brass Bowls and Aragon Teak Serving Accessories. From Roost. Through J. Garner Home. www.jgarnerhome.com 2) With antiqued brass handles for substance, the Exton Tray in polished white marble. Perfect for entertaining or displaying favorite objects. From www.jgarnerhome. com 3) A decorative globe-shaped bottle with brass stopper, the Edgar Cube Stopper Decanter. Through www.jgarnerhome.com 4) Adorned with brushed bronze framework, the Manolo Sofa from Thayer Coggin. 94" wide by 31" tall. From Schoenfeld Interiors. www.schoenfeldinteriors.com 5) Well-traveled, confident and casual, Regina Andrew’s Molten Spider with Smoke Glass fixture. Through Regina Andrew. www. reginaandrew.com

Beautifully formed steel legs support the Eliot table from Cattelan Italia. Available in black, graphite or white, in either embossed lacquered steel or satin stainless steel. The bold structural lines of the table are softened by the curved Anna chairs and Galaxy pendants. The Regal mirror and Europa sideboard set the scene.

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After HOURS Unique and flashy in its wide forms, the Sunset Sofa from Gamma Furniture has enough modularity to meet your needs. It can flex from single seating to an entire sectional, and is available with moveable back cushions and headrests for even more versatility. Through Alchemy Collections.

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ON THE WATER’S EDGE written by MARGARETT WATERBURY

photography by JOSH ELLIOTT

IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, WE HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OUTDOORS. For the wet part of the year, that relationship is something like puppy love: longing glances, occasional dalliances, gloomy afternoons spent pining on the sofa. But during those brief, brilliant months of summer, we throw ourselves out of the house with abandon: cooking, eating, entertaining, recreating, relaxing, and soaking up every drop of those few, endless days.

But for the owners of this custom home in Lake Oswego their vision of paradise looks like a place where the outdoor party never has to stop, rain or shine. Although, when the indoors are this inviting, a break doesn’t look quite so bad after all.

This new-build property was completed in 2015, but the seeds were planted long beforehand.

The homeowners approached Curt Olson at Olson Group Architects of Portland before they even had a parcel to build on. With 20 years of experience working primarily on high-end residential homes, Curt was able to provide guidance at every step of the way, including selecting the right site.

Together, they looked at several potential properties before they set foot on the land that would eventually hold their dream home. “Being able to look at properties with clients is great,” says Curt. “That way, we can evaluate target properties before they buy: What can we do here? Is it going to fit what you want? Can it be a good property?”

Eventually, they found it: a waterfront parcel in Lake Oswego that offered unparalleled opportunities for outdoor recreation and enjoyment. The selected parcel is relatively unique in that it sits on a promontory, which means it enjoys lake exposure on not one, but two different sides. “That has some benefits,” says Curt. “More water, more expanse, great views. But there’s also more exposure on the house, so you have to look at where it will be seen from the water, what those rooms are, what’s on display.”

Most homes are built with a clear front and back, but that approach wasn’t going to work for this property. Because of the nearly 360-degree exposure and the desire to extend outdoor living spaces all the way to the water’s edge, this home needed to shine from every direction.

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In keeping with a fundamentally classic style, symmetrical structures and arrangements are used throughout the home. LEFT While the custom fireplace from is strongly asymmetrical, its placement provides a strong vertical center for the windows that flank it on either side. THIS PAGE the dining room prominently features geometric motifs with vertical axes of symmetry, including a custom-installed chevron wall that gives a contemporary nod to beadboard, a classic adornment

to many coastal New England homes. The furnishings in this home were sourced from a wide range of vendors: “I look everywhere!” says interior designer Jenny Baines. “I don’t like things to match, so I scour all the resources we can find.”

High-end Marvin windows from Portland Millwork keep the home well insulated even during the stormiest days, particularly important for a home this close to the water.

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One of the homeowners is a serious home cook, so designing a beautiful, functional kitchen for family and entertaining was a major focus of the design process. “The goal was to make the kitchen super functional but still have visual balance,” explains Jenny. “We tried to create as much symmetry in the space as we could, and create a geometric rhythm that moves around the space.” Mostly neutral colors are accented by whimsical bright red knobs on the professional-grade range.

was a unique challenge: We needed to make a gracious, inviting experience for people arriving from the front door, and from the lakeside.”

Building a new home from the ground up is often an exercise in setting priorities.

Because the waterfront site was relatively small and involved a steep slope and tight restrictions, Curt worked with the homeowners to develop a list of critical attributes— ample outdoor living space, for instance, as well as enough bedrooms for their two children and visitors—along with a “wish list” of features that would be nice, but not essential. Then, it was simply a matter of figuring out what was possible within the constraints of size and placement.

For this family, a lot was possible. The final layout of the home emphasized an almost seamless flow between the indoors and outside, inviting residents and visitors to engage with the landscape while still creating areas of sanctuary and retreat. Outdoor entertainment spaces are integrated into each level: the main floor includes a covered outdoor kitchen and patio directly off of the interior kitchen, while the bottom floor opens directly onto a barbecue area, bar, and lakefront patio that offers expansive views over Oswego Lake.

“I love how the entertainment spaces in the home move from inside to outside, and from level to level. The party can really flow down into the landscape,” says Curt.

“From the barbecue and bar space, out through the landscape and hot tub deck and boathouse, and then into the boat and onto the water.”

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Except for the outdoor entertainment areas down by the lake, all outdoor spaces, including the barbecue patio and outdoor kitchen, are designed for four-season use. Large overhangs protect the areas from the weather, while in-ceiling heaters keep revelers toasty warm. FACING PAGE A lakefront bar offers pass-through service to the barbecue patio. THIS PAGE A combination of different leather finishes on chairs and built-in benches provides subtle visual interest at the dining nook.

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After the layout of the home was finalized, the homeowners enlisted the help of

CONTRACTOR: Delahunt Homes, www.delahunthomes.com

interior designer Jenny Baines, principal at Baines Design, to develop a cohesive,

ARCHITECT: Olson Group Architects

customized aesthetic. Trained at Rhode Island School of Design, Jenny spent 10 years

INTERIOR DESIGN: Baines Design, www.bainesdesign.com

working for design firms in New York City before returning to her hometown of

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Portland in 2005 to start a family and her own business. Jenny and Curt worked

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together closely to select fixtures and finishes, design the most complex areas of the home like kitchens and bathrooms, and continue the process of seamlessly integrat-

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ing the home with its surroundings.

To keep the focus on the setting—what Jenny describes as “the star of the show”— they opted for neutral colors and clean interior lines, and leaned heavily on clean,

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FACING PAGE The herringbone motif from the dining room and breakfast nook is carried into the master bathroom, but here, it’s found on the floor rather than the wall. Symmetrical design principles carry through even to the more functional components of the home, like the shower and storage areas. THIS PAGE The master bedroom features an ensuite fireplace as well as soft, plush detailing to create a sanctuary-like atmosphere.

classic design concepts. Jenny drew inspiration from the style of traditional East Coast homes in Cape Cod, Nantucket, and the Hamptons, all places where outdoor hosting is a way of life, but balanced that classic aesthetic with a clean, modern, and streamlined West Coast vibe.

The interiors also needed to be designed with function at the forefront. “They entertain a ton, and they have young kids,” says Jenny. “So it needed to be durable, not fussy at all, and really light and airy.” Despite its simplicity, every room of the home has unexpected depth, a feat accomplished by wide-ranging use of textural contrast and pattern throughout the property. “We always like to mix textures, especially when we’re using a neutral palette. I’m always looking for ways to bring interest and create contrast: light versus dark, shiny versus dull, smooth versus rough,” says Jenny. “The eye has to see dark to see light, otherwise everything goes flat. Contrast is how you can keep the interest alive.”

Jenny’s favorite part of the home is the custom chevron motif that appears in a few different places, including the wall behind the dining nook and the floor of the master bathroom. “We like to pull geometries through the whole house like that, because it subconsciously makes the house feel more unified. I like how the whole house just feels really cohesive.”

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THINK MID-CENTURY MODERN HAS TO FEEL EITHER ULTRA-RETRO, OR COLD AND STARK? THINK AGAIN. THIS

NEW HOME IN BEND BUILT BY NEIL KELLY FUSES THE BEST OF MID-CENTURY STYLE WITH A SOFT, NATURAL FEEL

AND CONTEMPORARY DETAILS FOR A LOOK THAT’S JUST RIGHT IN THIS RUGGED, EARTH-TONED LANDSCAPE.

DESERT LIGHT written by MARGARETT WATERBURY photography by AARON ZILTENER

WHEN DESIGNERS BUILD A NEW PROPERTY, tailoring the home to the family’s needs is often at the forefront of their creative process. But what happens when there is no client? For Nate Ewan, designer and project manager at Neil Kelly, this speculative home in Central Oregon offered the opportunity to pursue new ideas about modern living and Western design.

Some spec houses can feel bland, but not this home, which was carefully designed to reflect the uniqueness of its surroundings while functioning for a wide range of family types. “The people who live in this community are a real mix: retirees, young families, empty nesters, and second home owners, so we designed it to account for as many of those kinds of residents as we could,” explains Nate. That meant open living spaces, plenty of outdoor space, and a polished yet soft midcentury modern aesthetic that pairs a touch of rusticity with a contemporary feel.

“The main level is just over 3,000 square feet, so it’s suitable for empty nesters because everything they need is downstairs—bathroom, bedroom, overflow bedroom,” Nate explains, “but it’s a two story home with four bedrooms and three baths, so it would also suit a family of four or five.”

The home is located in the community of Tetherow, a relatively new development built on land that experienced a forest fire in the early 1990s. The terrain, while not challenging to build on, did offer some unique inspirations for the overall look and feel of the property. “The landscape throughout the Tetherow area is kind of rugged,” says Nate. “You see burnt tree snags lying on the ground, most charred black or greyed from weathering. The different na-

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tive plants and grasses growing on the sandy soil are all earth tones, and there are rock outcroppings here and there. It’s a rustic landscape, so we wanted to pursue elements of the midcentury modern style, but also wanted the elements and colors to blend in with the surrounding landscape.”

One of the most literal ways Nate and his team brought that landscape to the home was the use of Oregon juniper wood for the exterior siding. Tough as nails, juniper grows so well in Eastern Oregon that it’s considered a nuisance.

Worse, the tree’s deep roots and high water needs, 30 to 70 gallons a day, mean it’s slowly draining the water table in an already dry climate.

Fortunately, that toughness means there’s a place for juniper wood in the construction industry, and demand is growing. “Because it’s so hardy and dense and durable, it wears well in the elements for a long time,” says Nate. It’s also very beautiful, full of knots and deep grain, and has a rustic look that’s still elegant and refined. On this home, Nate opted to run the juniper siding horizontally. To provide contrast, cedar siding was applied vertically to other segments of the home.

Moving inward, Nate retained that same contemporary, midcentury style, but tempered it with a gentle approach. “In my opinion, true midcentury modern style can be cold and stale and very rigid, and we wanted this home to be warm, soft, and subtle,” he says. One way he achieved that softness was by having contractors use a small, soft-radius edge on drywall corners called baby bullnose, rather than an abrupt 90-degree angle. Visible wood grain, including the riftcut vertical grain white oak used for the kitchen cabinetry, also adds softness by providing a refined yet rustic feel.

OPPOSITE a custom gas fireplace brings a horizontal element into the living room. Encased in simple white porcelain tile in a linear grid form typical of mid-century style, it provides a commanding centerpiece yet retains a light, simple look. THIS PAGE Nate created a custom tile accent wall for the bathroom from reclaimed barn wood recycled into square tiles that are set randomly, with horizontal and vertical grain. “The tiles are not absolutely flush,” says Nate, “so it brings in some of that rustic element and avoids feeling stark or cold, but it still doesn’t overpower the modern aesthetic.”

ABOVE In the kitchen, Nate oriented the butchers block dining bar perpendicular to the main island so that every diner would be able to enjoy expansive views. A beam made from parallel strand lumber was treated with clear lacquer and left exposed as a textural element.

Nate also used just a single off-white Rodda Paint color for the entire interior of the home, including the walls and ceiling. “It’s very warm and soft,” he says.

“It’s a matter of finding the right color that doesn’t come across as stale white, or cold. I wanted the walls to just disappear and be a simple background, and not bring attention to themselves.”

To add to that streamlined look, he eschewed millwork almost everywhere in the house. “Most doors have casework around the door; we brought sheet rock right up to the jam, so it’s a clean, soft, subtle line that stays in tune with that less-is-more, minimalist approach,” he explains.

All that simplicity redirects attention from the forms inside the home to the amazing views just outside the window. “People live in Central Oregon for the outdoor lifestyle,” says Nate, which led him to create three distinct exterior patio settings: a large patio with a fire pit off the great room, a second patio off the back of the home, and a roof deck above the garage. “From that elevation, you can see the mountains and take in about 11 fairways,” says Nate.

When they’re not outside, enjoying Bend’s famously sunny climate, residents can enjoy sweeping views of the Cascade Mountains through large, triple-glazed windows made low profile with thin mullions and no casework.

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“I wanted to lay out the home with windows and roof lines that capture those views, let in the daylight, and still maintain privacy from neighbors and block hot afternoon sun,” explains Nate. “We had to really think through some of our large overhangs and eaves to be able to free-float them without supports.”

The home also boasts impressive energy efficiency. A typical home of its size built to standard building code would be assigned an energy performance score (or EPS) of 240, a figure Nate describes as “atrocious.” By opting for triple-glazed windows, a high-efficiency HVAC system, thick exterior walls, extra insulation, and rooftop solar panels, Nate was able to get the home to an EPS score of 37, which equates to an average electric bill of less than $50, inclusive of heating and cooling.

PROJECT SOURCES CONTRACTOR: Neil Kelly, www.neilkelly.com ARCHITECT: RJ Johnson Architecture & Interiors, Ltd, www.rjjohnson.net CABINETRY: Neil Kelly Cabinets, www.neilkellycabinets.com INTERIOR FURNISHINGS: Parker Furniture, www.parker-furniture.com PAINT: Rodda Paint, www.roddapaint.com SIDING: Parr Lumber, www.parr.com WINDOWS: Sierra Pacific Windows, www.sierrapacificwindows.com Kitchen Appliances: Miele; Plumbing Fixtures: Fixture Gallery: DXV, The Galley

PERHAPS NO ONE ELSE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WINE INDUSTRY has done more on behalf of a single grape in the country than Abacela founder Earl Jones has with the Spanish variety Tempranillo.

TOP 12 NW TEMPRANILLOS

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“People have said that Spanish Tempranillo was the answer to France’s Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon — you just pick the time you want to drink it,” Jones says. “Drink it young, and it’s got the power of a Cabernet.

Let it age, and it becomes very Burgundian.”

Jones, an acclaimed physician immunologiist from Kentucky, became so seduced by the grape during the 1980s that he moved his family from the Gulf Coast to Roseburg specifically to make Tempranillo in Oregon’s Umpqua Valley. On Memorial Day 1995, a mile southwest of a wildlife safari park, Jones, his wife and two young daughters began planting a milepost and delicious laboratory for the American wine industry.

“We planted 10,000 vines that spring — 12 acres,” Jones recalls. “The first day, we worked all day and only planted 300 vines.”

Historically, Tempranillo’s roots can be traced in Spain to 1000 BC. Internationally, it is far from a novelty as the sixth-most planted wine grape in the world. There were about 500 acres grown without fanfare in California’s massive Central Valley by the time Jones established Abacela, but he is the Tempranillo trailblazer in Oregon. Only a few vines were planted in 1993 at Washington’s famed Red Willow Vineyard.

Two decades later, the rise of Tempranillo is obvious. The 2015 Oregon Vineyard and Winery Census Report showed 414 acres of Tempranillo were planted across the state, more than double that of 2011. At Abacela, it accounts for more than a third of the Jones family’s 77 Salmon Safe acres at Fault Line Vineyards.

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People can now pronounce it correctly,” Jones says with a smile. “It used to be, ‘I’ll have a Tempra-NELLO.’ And now almost everyone knows it’s Tempra-KNEE-O.”

541.830.8466 (VINO) In Washington, there are about 50 acres. While that’s a thimbleful within 12956 Modoc Rd. White City,industry OR — twice the size of Oregon’s — it’s not insignifia 60,000-acre cant considering Tempranillo can be planted where high-priced Cabernet Sauvignon thrives.

It’s also being embraced in Idaho’s Snake River Valley where the early-ripening grape is a better fit in a cooler vintage than Cabernet Sauvignon, and the resulting wines pair marvelously with cuisine from Boise’s Basque community. Rising star Cinder Wines used its Tempranillo to win best of class two years ago at the Bay Area's Sunset International Wine Competition.

However, the success of the Iberian Peninsula grape is most evident in Oregon where more than 50 tasting rooms throughout the state now offer customers a Tempranillo. Among those is Castillo de Feliciana, a winery on the Oregon side of the Walla Walla Valley that has ramped up its production of Tempranillo to 2,000 cases thanks to several vineyards in Washington.

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An hour south of Roseburg in the Applegate Valley, there’s Rachael Martin at award-winning Red Lily Vineyards, where she produces six styles of Tempranillo, including a rosé and a Port-style wine. Tempranillo has become the signature grape of Southern Oregon.

“Obviously, we are always grateful to Earl,” said Les Martin, Red Lily’s co-owner. “He’s probably tired of me calling him ‘The Godfather of Tempranillo,’ but he really is. He started it all here.”

Back at Abacela, Jones and his winemaker Andrew Wenzl offer three distinctive Tempranillos each year for a combined production of about 3,500 cases — by far the largest in the Pacific Northwest.

If there’s an especially stellar vintage, the top few barrels will inspire Abacela to create a Gran Reserva-style Tempranillo that Jones has trademarked as “Paramour.” Only two have been made — products of the 2005 and 2009 vintages. In 2011, when the six barrels of 2005 Paramour came available at $90, it ranked as perhaps Oregon's most expensive wine not made of Pinot Noir. (Look for a 2013 Paramour to be released in a couple of years).

Jones, 76, and his wife, Hilda, were presented last year with the Oregon Wine Board’s highest honor — the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009, the board named him Oregon Vintner of the Year.

“When we started this, we didn’t think we were going to be doing anything of this level of importance when we came to Oregon,” he says. “We just came here to try to grow Tempranillo.”

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According to Jones, the Tempranillos in Oregon and Washington carry characteristics more similar to those in Spain than what often emerges

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ABACELA 2014 Fiesta Tempranillo $23 Umpqua Valley It’s only natural that the Northwest’s pioneer winemaker of Tempranillo should also produce our region’s largest single-bottling featuring the Spanish grape. Andrew Wenzl helped Abacela earn 2013 Oregon Winery of the Year honors from Wine Press Northwest magazine.

Production: 2,413 cases www.abacela.com

RED LILY VINEYARDS Reustle-Prayer Rock Vineyards 2012 Tempranillo$35 Applegate Valley Rachael Martin uses Tempranillo to burnish her reputation as one of Southern Oregon’s top winemakers.

This bottling mined a double gold medal at the 2016 San Francisco Chronicle, which followed up gold medals won previously at the L.A. International and Great Northwest Invitational.

Production: 500 cases www.redlilyvineyards.com

ALEXANDRIA NICOLE CELLARS 2014 Destiny Ridge Vineyards Big Shot Estate Tempranillo $55 Horse Heaven Hills Jarrod Boyle playfully refers to himself as “just a dirt farmer,” however he’s known as one of the state’s top vintners with his 327 picturesque acres overlooking the Columbia River. A traditional program of 22 months in French barrels — and a thirsty fan club — lead to this being the priciest Tempranillos on this list.

Production: 243 cases www.alexandrianicolecellars.com

CASTILLO DE FELICIANA VINEYARD & WINERY 2013 Reserve Tempranillo, $32 Walla Walla Valley Chris Castillo heads up the program for his parents’ winery on the Oregon side of the Walla Walla Valley. This winter, look for the debut of a Tempranillo off his family’s 1-acre site in the Rocks District of Milton-Freewater’s funky, cobblestone soils.

Production: 400 cases www.castillodefeliciana.com

REUSTLE-PRAYER ROCK VINEYARD Timnah Bloc Tempranillo $29 Umpqua Valley Stephen Reustle excels with cool-climate whites, Pinot Noir and Syrah across his estate, yet Tempranillo is another star in his constellation. He crafts four styles of Temp, led by this — a best of class winner at the 2016 Great Northwest Invite. Enjoy with grilled lamb, quail or Manchego cheese.

Production: 440 cases www.reustlevineyards.com

COLUMBIA WINERY 2013 Tempranillo $35 Horse Heaven Hills One of Washington's oldest brands — purchased by Gallo in 2012 — enters the Tempranillo field with some substance. Canadian-born winemaker Sean Hails pulled these grapes in mid-September, a sage move during the remarkably hot vintage, and his use of just 11 percent new barrels for only 16 months allows for bright fruit flavors.

Production: 950 cases www.columbiawinery.com

FOLIN CELLARS 2013 Estate Tempranillo $32 Rogue Valley Rob Folin worked seven years at renowned Pinot Noir producer Domaine Serene in the Willamette Valley before moving in 2007 to his family’s cellar and vineyard near Medford. Folin rocks Rhône Valley varieties, but he also earned a double gold medal for his Estate Temp early this year at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.

Production: 225 cases www.folincellars.com

SILVAN RIDGE WINERY 2013 Tempranillo $26 Rogue Valley Argentine winemaker Juan Pablo Valot has proven to be a quick study with the noble grape of Spain. This is just his second vintage of working with Temp, yet he's learned how to successfully deal with the inherent tannins. It’s a promising relationship with Belmont Vineyard in the Bear Creek Valley near Ashland.

Production: 300 cases www.silvanridge.com

MARYHILL WINERY 2013 Painted Hills Vineyard Tempranillo $34 Columbia Valley Art Den Hoed’s majestic 400-acre site on the northern flanks of the Horse Heaven Hills has produced one of the showiest Tempranillos in the Northwest thanks to Richard Batchelor, whose winemaking lifted Maryhill to Wine Press Northwest’s Pacific Northwest Winery of the Year in 2015. A year later, this merited a gold medal at the Cascadia Wine Competition. Production: 207 cases www.maryhillwinery.com

ZERBA CELLARS 2013 Tempranillo $45 Walla Walla Valley Tempranillo is one of 16 varieties planted by Cecil and Marilyn Zerba across their Jon Cockburn Ranch Vineyard in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. Their winemaker in Milton-Freewater, Doug Nierman, also pulled from nearby Les Collines Vineyard for this rare and delicious example from the Walla Walla Valley.

Production: 147 cases www.zerbacellars.com

SAVIAH CELLARS 2013 Tempranillo $38 Walla Walla Valley Richard Funk selected from a troika of vineyards in the Walla Walla Valley — Dugger Creek, Watermill Estate and his eponymous site — before applying his winemaking charms. His presentation of black cherries, smooth tannins and a dash of pepper paved the way to gold medals this year at the Cascadia and the Walla Walla Valley competitions.

Production: 151 cases www.saviahcellars.com

RAPTOR RIDGE WINERY 2013 Tempranillo, $35 Rogue Valley A founding director of the Oregon Wine Board, Willamette Valley winemaker Scott Shull is one of the state’s most respected producers of Pinot Noir. He’s also enchanted

by Tempranillo, which he sources from Folin Vineyard below the Table Rocks near Medford. This marks Raptor Ridge’s third vintage with this 2,000-foot elevation site.

Production: 200 cases www.raptorridgewinery.com

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from California. That helps explain why Abacela’s 1998 Tempranillo — a product of vines just four years old — received a double gold at the 2000 San Francisco International Wine Competition, beating out 19 entries from Spain.

“I think the fruit up here tends to have a darker blackberry and black cherry element to it,” Jones says. “That’s much more like what you’ll see in the Ribera del Duero. For the Rioja wines, it is so much more difficult to evaluate them because they blend so much.

“Rioja wines are always soft and elegant,” he adds. “They age because they have enough acid, but you don’t know for sure how much Grenache, how much Carignane or how much Graciano is in those wines.”

In the Pacific Northwest, winemakers often will rely on small contributions of Bordeaux varieties to better balance their final bottlings of Tempranillo.

“In the Ribera del Duero, they don’t do as much blending, and most of us in the Northwest don’t use much,” Jones says. “We’ll use a little Petit Verdot or something like that to tone the acid, so our wines taste more like the Riberas because the structure is more like theirs.”

Clockwise from top: Stephen Reustle crafts four styles of Tempranillo at Reustle-Prayer Rock Vineyard in Roseburg.

In 2015, 475 acres of Tempranillo grapes grew here. Saviah Cellars’ winemaker Richard Funk is winning gold medals for his Tempranillos. Maryhill Winery is a lovely site to enjoy its 2013 Painted Hills Vineyard wine.

At the other end of the spectrum, winemaking students at Walla Walla Community College produce a Tempranillo — using school-owned vines — that are deliciously approachable because they are made in the young, low-oak joven style that’s found in Spain.

When Jones revisits many of his older Tempranillos, he’s reminded of the elegance that comes with age. That’s why Jones and his team encourage customers to use patience and cellar the barrel-aged Tempranillo bottlings from five to seven years before drinking.

At the dining table, sinewy Tempranillo serves as an example of the saying “what grows together goes together.” A prized pairing with a nicely cellared Tempranillo is a slice or two of jamón ibérico — a hedonistic ham cured several years from acorn-fed black Iberian pigs. Spicy Mexican fare, hearty tomato-based dishes and roasted vegetables meld nicely, too.

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For Jones, who knows what to do with his well-seasoned paella pan, his appetite for Tempranillo often goes back to all those times he’s visited Spain for research.

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“What I like to do is have Tempranillo with something that will absorb the tannins on a young wine, something with a high fat content — meat and some fish works pretty well, too,” he said. “I had a sea bass dish a long time ago in Atlanta at a place called Commune, and I thought the chef must have made a mistake.

“That was one of the most fruity and intense Tempranillos that I’ve ever had, but it was the effect of the fat in the sea bass that ended up pulling the tannin level down,” he continued. “It was a fruit explosion in your mouth. I’ll never forget it.”

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AVA GENE'S written by MARGARETT WATERBURY photography by DAVID REAMER

JOSHUA MCFADDEN, OWNER AND EXECUTIVE CHEF OF AVA GENE’S RESTAURANT IN SOUTHEAST PORTLAND, MIGHT HAVE GROWN UP IN THE MIDWEST, BUT HIS APPROACH TO PRODUCE-FOCUSED CUISINE HAS SET THE TONE FOR THE WAY PORTLANDERS LOOK AT VEGETABLES.

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While Ava Gene’s is distinctly Italian, it’s not encumbered by the regional distinctions of Italian cuisine.

“It’s more of a philosophy and a feeling,” explains Joshua McFadden, executive chef and owner. “I’m not looking at any particular region, although I’ve spent a lot of time in Rome. It’s more about the table and the seasonality.”

THERE’S AN AGELESS QUALITY ABOUT AVA GENE’S. Although its menu is fresh and contemporary, it feels as if the restaurant has existed for a very long time. It hasn’t, although in Portland’s super hot restaurant market, the nearly five years it’s held court on the corner of SE 34th and Division might as well be an eternity. Ava Gene’s has not only become one of Portland’s most beloved restaurants, it’s also entered the national stage as an emblem of a new approach to fine dining that puts vegetables at the center of the plate, and pays as much homage to local producers as it does to European tradition.

It’s impossible to talk about Ava Gene’s without talking about local produce.

Although it’s far from a vegetarian restaurant, the menu has always skewed heavily towards vegetables, and Joshua’s distinctive style has inspired dozens of other chefs to experiment with the incredible range of local fruits and vegetables available in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, he’s about to inspire a much wider audience: Joshua’s first cookbook, Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables, will be published in the spring of 2017 by Artisan Books.

“Vegetables have always spoken to me: the diversity of colors, textures, seasonality, complexity” Joshua explains. “I couldn’t live without hamburgers, so it’s not like I’m a vegetarian. It’s just that I think finding a moment to just blow somebody’s mind with vegetables is really fun.” And it’s true. If you’re one of the many, many Americans who’ve always found vegetables a little…ho-hum, you’re in for a spectacular treat at Ava Gene’s.

One of the reasons that veggie-heavy approach works so well is Joshua’s fanaticism about sourcing exceptional locally grown products. Since its founding in 2012, Ava Gene’s has purchased more than 66,400 pounds of local produce— by the time you read this magazine, the total will likely be several hundred pounds more.

Why pay so much attention to local sourcing? “It all starts with flavor,” explains Joshua. “Local just tastes better. That’s it. It’s fresher, there’s better product, and it’s more fun. All the positives that naturally stem off of that are rewarding as well, but it starts with flavor, always.”

Over the years, Ava Genes has developed long-term relationships with dozens of local farmers—in fact, there’s a whole section on the menu devoted to spotlighting a rotating cast of Oregon and Washington producers. The vendor list reads like a greatest hits track list of farmer’s market stalwarts, from Kiokawa Family Orchards in Hood River to Groundwork Organics in Junction City.

One of Joshua’s favorite farms, though, is Ayers Creek, located in Gaston, Oregon, and owned by Anthony and Carol Boutard. “Anthony does everything the hard way, and he’s grown some of the best things I’ve ever had on the planet Earth,” says Joshua. “Ava Gene’s wouldn’t be the restaurant it is without him; his products are so special.”

Heavily seasonal, Ava Gene’s menu changes daily, but no matter when you go, expect surprising preparations, unusual vegetables, and revelatory combinations of peak-season produce that draws no hard line between fruits and vegetables. Oregon’s whole bounty, from field to orchard, is given equal footing on this menu. On recent nights, buttery pears rubbed shoulders with crisp, aromatic fennel and lively citrus. In another dish, sweet apples and cabbage got a leg up from prosciutto and provolone. The “Tuscan Cavalry,” a salad made with lacinato kale buried under a shower of SarVecchio cheese (a 20-month Parmesan-style cheese from Wisconsin) and crisp breadcrumbs, hasn’t been taken off the menu in years—take that, kale salad haters.

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including hand-formed shapes like tortellini and farfalle, die-cut shapes like spaghetti and tagliatelle, and extruded shapes like rotini and campanelle. Not content to stick with tradition, the restaurant’s pasta chef, JoMarie Pitino, regularly experiments with alternative grains like barley, spelt, and buckwheat to give pasta extra heft and flavor. Right now, Ava Gene’s has one pasta machine; Joshua plans to add a second soon to keep up with demand.

“We get people saying they make pasta at home. Well, everybody makes pasta at home,” laughs Joshua. “I love the idea that we can make the best pasta they’ve ever had. People say ‘I don’t even know how you did that!’ It’s simple, but it’s so much better than they were expecting. That’s fun.” A small, attractive selection of entrees often includes seafood and pork, all of which are accompanied by thoughtful vegetable sides. For the adventurous—or simply indecisive—a “family meal” option lets you cede control to the kitchen and enjoy a meal selected by the chef.

While the vast majority of the food served at Ava Gene’s is sourced from local farmers, don’t expect to see any Oregon pinot on the menu. Every single bottle of wine in the restaurant comes from Italy, and the extensive list is organized by region as well as style. “Wine is one of those things, like coffee or chocolate or cheese, that can and should travel,” says Joshua. “Since we’re doing local food, we wanted diners to be able to taste the regions of Italy through wine.”

Most wines are organic, biodynamic, sustainably produced, and naturally fermented, and Ava Gene’s is home to what must be one of Oregon’s largest selections of orange wines, a unique style that sees white wine grapes fermented on their skins, much like red wine.

If the delicious food weren’t enough, Ava Gene’s interior is also full of delightful surprises. Although it’s firmly contemporary in style, artful nods to the

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old world give the space a vaguely continental feel. Inside, nearly floor to ceiling windows illuminate a timeless interior swathed in romantic lace curtains and subtly varied olive green subway tiles, and lush vines spill down shelving around the perimeter of the room lined with empty amari bottles and pannetone packaged in bright paper and fibrous twine.

The dining room is bisected by a leather-coated banquette that runs nearly the entire length of the restaurant; on either side, neat rows of mahogany tables set with brass inlay are arranged underneath a grid of pendant lights, luminous and starry. Tarnished vintage mirrors above the bar and kitchen give the space a vibe that’s equally reminiscent of old-timey saloons and French bistros, while the white carerra marble surfaces on the bar and wine hutches are unmistakably Italianate. Subtle, cozy, and luxe without being overwrought, there’s no more romantic restaurant in Portland for a first date, or a five thousandth.

Since taking ownership in summer of 2016, Joshua has added several pieces of art, including a bold, impressionistic painting of mountains hung next to the bar that adds new excitement to the space. “I’ve always loved creating spaces,” says Joshua, the child of an interior designer and an architect, “and now that I own it, I can have my way with things.”

A planned expansion in the year to come includes a larger kitchen, new bar, and private dining room, complete with traditional Italian details like arched doorways, red-and-white checkered tablecloths, and warm terra cotta-style earth tones. “I want it to feel like you’re in Italy 200 years ago,” he says, “to transport you to a whole new narrative.”

It won’t be the first time Ava Gene’s has transformed the narrative.

Reservations at 971.229.0571, open daily, 3377 SE Division St. in Portland

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Ava Gene’s cocktail menu highlights Italy’s many liqueurs, amari, and aperitifs, including Barolo Chinato, a fortified wine strengthened with herbs and spices; Fernet Branca, a bitter, minty after-dinner digestif; Amaro Braulio, an alpine-style liqueur born in the Italian alps; and Strega, a sweet, spicy liqueur whose name means “witch” in Italian.

If you enjoy grappa, the selection is one of the best in town, including venerable producers like Marolo, Poli, and Nardini alongside hometown distillers like Clear Creek.

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ROASTED SQUASH WITH YOGURT AND WALNUTS ON TOASTED BREAD

Adapted from Joshua McFadden's book, Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, this is a great basic batter recipe you can use to fry most anything. Shown below is a mix of roasted delicata squash and pumpkin with grated provolone picante, fried sage, pickled peppers, and a drizzle of honey.

Adapted from McFadden's cookbook, this can also be served as a vegetable salad; you can smear the yogurt on a platter like you would frost a cake and top with the roasted squash mixture.

FRIED ROASTED AND RAW VEGETABLES We batter and fry every vegetable at some point throughout the year at Ava Gene’s. It is all dependent on the season, in the spring you can see ramps, spring onions, asparagus, snap peas, into mid summer with squash, green tomatoes, eggplant, artichokes. Into the fall and winter we like to roast winter squash, onions, and beets and then dip them in batter and fry away. It is always fun to have an assortment. It takes about 2-3 minutes to fry vegetables in a large heavy bottomed pot, you want to do them in small batches and drain them on a paper towel. The oil is very hot (350 degrees). Be careful and be patient.

We serve them with grated cheese, fried herbs, lemon, spicy honey, pickled chiles, mayo, salsas and more at Ava Gene’s. You can mix it up how ever you see fit, but always use a lemon. Pick any seasonal vegetable, dip in the batter and fry away and serve straight away.

Such a stunning dish, and with so little work. I look for a mix of squash that will have differently shaped slices so that you get different flavors. To save time, instead of draining your own yogurt, you can use store-bought labneh or Greek yogurt. This is also great served warm, a little planning ahead and you can do just that.

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SIX SEASONS: A NEW WAY WITH VEGETABLES

By Joshua McFadden with Martha Holmberg Coming May 2017, from Artisan Books

Coming this spring is the debut cookbook from Joshua McFadden, a chef with the soul of a farmer and the palate of a visionary.

McFadden, chef and owner of renowned trattoria Ava Gene’s in Portland is a vegetable whisperer.

After years racking up culinary cred at New York City restaurants like Lupa, Momofuku, and Blue Hill, he managed the trailblazing Four Season Farm in coastal Maine, where he developed an appreciation for every part of the plant and learned to coax the best from vegetables at each stage of their lives.

BATTER FOR FRIED VEGETABLES Makes enough for about 1 pound vegetables ½ cup cornstarch ½ cup all-purpose flour ¼ teaspoon dried chile flakes Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper About 1 cup sparkling water You can also add in crushed dried herbs, such as coriander, fennel seeds, sesame seeds and on and on.

Whisk together the cornstarch, flour, chile flakes, and a generous amount of salt and black pepper. Whisk in enough sparkling water to make a batter the consistency of thin pancake batter. Keep cold and use the batter within an hour or two.

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In Six Seasons, McFadden channels both farmer and chef, highlighting the evolving attributes of vegetables throughout their growing seasons—an arc from spring to early summer to midsummer to the bursting harvest of late summer, then ebbing into autumn and, finally, the earthy, mellow sweetness of winter. Each chapter begins with recipes featuring raw vegetables at the start of their season. As weeks progress, McFadden turns up the heat—grilling and steaming, then moving on to sautés, pan roasts, braises, and stews. His ingenuity is on display in 225 revelatory recipes that celebrate flavor at its peak.

1½ cups plain whole or low-fat yogurt 1 small garlic clove, minced ½ teaspoon finely grated lemon zest Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper About 2 pounds winter squash, one kind or a mix Extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons slightly sweet white wine vinegar, such as Katz Sauvignon Blanc Vinegar Mint, torn Scallions, sliced ¼ cup lightly toasted walnuts, roughly chopped Butternut squash oil or pumpkinseed oil Country bread, sliced into 1 inch slices Whole garlic clove Line a sieve with some cheesecloth and set over a bowl. (If you don’t have cheesecloth, you can use paper coffee filters, but the draining time will be slightly longer). Put the yogurt in the cheesecloth and let it sit for at least an hour, so the whey drains out and the yogurt gets thick and creamy. You can set this up in the fridge and drain overnight, if you like. Use the whey in a smoothie or something, it’s nutritious!

Mix the drained yogurt with the garlic, lemon zest, and ¼ teaspoon salt, and set aside.

Heat the oven to 400F. Trim off the top and bottom of the squash, peel away the skin with a paring knife or sturdy vegetable peeler.

Cut the squash in half, scoop out the seeds and fibers with a stiff spoon, and then cut the squash into ½-inch slices.

Toss the squash, either in a large bowl or directly on a rimmed baking sheet, with about 2 tablespoons of oil and a generous seasoning of salt and pepper. Spread out on one or two rimmed baking sheets, and roast in the hot oven until tender and nicely browned on the underside, 20 to 40 minutes, depending on the texture of the squash. Let the squash cool slightly right on the sheet pan.

Toast up some nice thick sliced country bread, and toast in a 350F oven until toasted. I like to flip them at about the 5-6 minute mark. You do not want them to be like a cracker, think morning toast with a little more bite, but still some give. You could even use a toaster. Once toasted rub with garlic and a nice glug of extra-virgin olive oil.

If you can time this just right, while everything is still warm, spread the yogurt on the toast. In a large bowl, toss the roasted squash, toasted walnuts, torn mint, and sliced scallions. Then sprinkle with the vinegar, then spoon squash mixture on the toast and scatter more walnuts on the dish, finish with a few drops of the squash oil, or some extra-virgin olive oil.

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