This glass and concrete mountain house is the last frontier of high-altitude living.
Dining room with concrete walls, engineered oak flooring and slatted Bald Cypress clad ceiling. In the center, a custom-made walnut dining table by Fischer Furniture rests on a Jebara & Co. wool rug, accompanied by Finn Juhl’s BO 72 armchairs in teak and leather. The setting is completed by the vintage ND 93 desk by Nanna Ditzel for Søren Willadsen Møbelfabrik, Denmark, 1955. On the wall, the sculpture Gang Signs by Nils Erichsen Martin (2023–24), by Hostler Burrows, while the light is entrusted to Serge Mouille’s Tripod Desklamp.Photos by Douglas Friedman, Styling by Michael Reynolds
Not your usual chalet. In the Rocky Mountains of Montana, this villa doesn’t resort to Tyrolean interiors, wool textiles and postcard folklore. Living in the mountains becomes refined, subtle, airy, close to a warm modernism that reinterprets the landscape without imitating it. At Big Sky, one of the largest ski areas in the United States near Yellowstone Park, nature is a magnetic force. It is in this context that the architecture studio Walker Warner together with the study Gachot signs a contemporary mountain house that subverts the Alpine imagination, choosing a warm, measured, essential modernism. “The context, the history of a place, is everything,” he says John Gachot, founder of the New York studio led together with his wife Christine and a team of forty people. «It is a rare privilege to live in a house immersed in one of the most pristine landscapes in the country», continues the interior designer duo. “With these breathtaking views, it was Walker Warner’s architecture that guided us. We wanted to create the feeling of floating above the mountain».
