GRAND… hardly begins to describe the newly built 15,000-square-foot manse some 15 minutes from San Francisco. For a charmed family of five, the architecture is the epitome of luxurious California theatricality, with two-story tall columns flanking the front entrance, 24-foot-high ceilings in the main living spaces, and great expanses of glass opening onto...

    WHEN… a business executive and his equestrian wife bought a rundown 1920s stone cottage on the shores of Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago, their first call was to Chicago-and Hamptons-based designer Michael Del Piero. Her signature blend of rustic and luxe was just what they had in mind.     THE HOUSE… with its monumental...

    In 1961.. one of California’s greatest residential architects completed a particularly compelling, and confounding, concrete house in the San Francisco Bay area. The celebrated Joseph Esherick (1914-1998) centered the home’s design around a tall, luminous atrium. Overhead, Esherick designed skylights to rest upon concrete beams in a dramatic structural display more typical of...

    LOCATED ON… the rugged coastal ridges of the western Sonoma Coast, Flowers Vineyards & Winery makes exceptional wine that captures the wild beauty of the region and celebrates the spirit of the land. When designing the new guest experience for the beloved local landmark, Walker Warner Architects embraced the same nature-based ethos. “Our...