So often when hunting for high-end properties in ski country, we run into the same tired log cabin aesthetic, with Native American-inspired prints, heavy leather furniture, mounted moose heads, and other Western clichés. Luckily, there are some owners and designers willing to brave a chilly reception from the neighbors in pursuit of something more unique. No one has turned the log home on its head more than New Mexico-based AD100 architect Antoine Predock. The Log Jam House was built in Colorado for a couple of New Yorkers, one of whom specializes in disequilibrium theory at Columbia Law School. He should feel right at home in the house, which has logs spearing through the rear facade, curved walls, and a curious arrangement of windows. The three-bedroom modern cabin's otherwise sleek interiors were featured in the January 2008 issue of Architectural Digest.
BoConcept's new Ottawa Collection, designed by Karim Rashid. Photo via Contemporist
WORLDWIDE—New from BoConcept is the Ottawa dining room collection, which was designed by Karim Rashid. [Contemporist]
NYC—Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York, a spinoff of the network's original series profiling high-rolling agents and brokers in L.A., will kick off March 7. [Curbed NY]
WORLDWIDE—House Beautifulwelcomes two new contributing editors: Blair Voltz Clarke, a private art dealer, and Rebecca de Ravenel, a designer and stylist. [Editor at Large]
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Now that Phil Mickelson and Greg Norman are both trying to unload their homes, where ever will these links masters land? Perhaps in Fukushima, Japan, where Japanese architecture firm no.555 has designed a boxy, modernist residence with a putting green—or, technically a mini golf course—traversing the two main volumes. It's just about as cool as that rooftop putting green in Brooklyn. Below, find a full-on shot of the house.
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Location: Sun Valley, Idaho Price: $5,900,000 The Skinny: When Swedish tennis champ Mats Wilander and his wife discovered that Idaho's mountain air would help assuage their son's skin condition, the couple purchased an 81-acre ranch and moved the family from Greenwich, Conn. to one of the country's oldest ski areas, Sun Valley. Wilander, who gained notoriety as a commentator after saying Federer had "no balls" in a 2006 defeat to Nadal, built this 10,000-square-foot, seven-bed, 8.5-bath mansion on the property, along with a two-bed guest house and a caretaker's residence. Remarkably, there doesn't seem to be a tennis court on the property, though a sauna, billiards room, gym, sound proof music room, wine cellar, hot tub, and lap pool are all included in the $6M price. That's quite a hike from the $1.7M the tennis star paid for the property, but that was 15 years ago.
· 104 Cove Creek [Coldwell Banker]
· Tim Headington Asks $25 Million in South Beach [WSJ]
As rumors predicted,Gordon Ramsay has left London for parts West Coast, settling on a $6.75M mansion in Bel-Air, Calif. The famously hot-tempered British chef, TV personality, and, now, Kmart housewares designer and Acura spokesperson will soon live with the walls of a Ken Ungar-designed five-bedroom, which was built in 2003 and has views of the canyon, city, and ocean. The home measures 7,400 square feet and, while it's certainly no comparison to the $18.75M Bel-Air behemoth Ramsay looked at in April—nor his London property, which has a $350,000 wine cellar—let's hope it's a notch more than adequate for the man who can find a nightmare in just about anything.
Colorado-based cartoonist (and, incidentally, orthodontics student) Grant Snider has turned the old "glass houses" adage into a clever series of illustrations depicting famous midcentury works of architecture. Above: cheeky renditions of Philip Johnson's Glass House and Mies' Farnsworth House. "My architect brother informed me that Mies van der Rohe was known for his innovations in steel and glass, not wood," writes Snider. "So just to clarify: those are MUTANT beavers." Below, find the artist's version of Villa Savoie, by Le Corbusier, and, of course, Fallingwater.
One doesn't think of Kelly Wearstler as a "hang the flat-screen over the fireplace" kind of gal, but lo', here's one of her projects in the Hollywood Hills. Discovered yesterday by the folks at Curbed LA, the three-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot 1950s traditional sports a cherry-red front door and many of the designer's signature marks inside, from the metal armchairs to the large, spherical pendant light over the breakfast table to the standing wooden sculpture in the living room. (That said, the interiors here aren't nearly as over-the-top as Wearstler's own home, which continues to languish on the market at the reduced ask of $39M.) Anyway, back to the property above: it has a heated pool, spa, and cabana on the grounds, and it's asking $3.295M. Curbed LA has the full photogallery.
Located on a private, gated peninsula jutting into Tennessee's serpentine Center Hill Lake, this $5M compound is described in the brokerbabble as "Hampton's Style." While we'd normally take that to mean a shingled gambrel monstrosity—or the personal taste of someone named Hampton—here it means just about the most decked out summer party palace in the South. Owing to the fact that it's an hour and a half outside Nashville, the mansion has a private helipad tucked away on the roof of the garage for easy access. Inside the main house, there are five bedrooms; the guest house has four more. There's a one-bed cabin and a floating party pad in the form of a two-story houseboat. All of this is located on 3.5 acres of forested hillside with access to all the recreational diversions on the lake, like boating and jet-skiing. If that's not quite enough, yet another site on the property has been approved for an additional structure.
· 6500 Coconut Ridge Road [FCP&A]
Photo: Antoine Predock Architect
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