Prow Home

Like the craggy mountain ridge that embraces this home, the geometry shifts and collides in reference to the chaos of nature’s geology. Passing through the shifting stone walls, one is reminded of exploring a found ruin in the hillside. This feeling is reinforced through an exterior materials palette dominated by site-quarried sandstone, sod roofing, and reclaimed snow fence siding, with the “found object” aesthetic carried into the interiors through clay plaster walls, rough hewn beams, and hand-forged ironwork. A daylit Kiva room is just one nod to Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan) and other indigenous & vernacular architectural expressions.

The home’s distinguishing characteristic is the dramatic prow that stretches out and up toward a 120 year old pine that twists upward into the blue skies above. Stone steps wind down the canyon to outlying buildings containing guest rooms, spa, and exercise facilities.