This year marks the 75th anniversary of Flathead Lake Lodge, a family owned and operated guest ranch in Bigfork, Montana. Originally home to the Flathead Recreation Ranch for Boys that was built in 1932, the property was purchased by Les Averill in 1945, upon his...
Tucked away in the Rocky Mountains in Big Sky, Montana, just northwest of Yellowstone National Park, the Yellowstone Club has proved itself as a one-of-a-kind community since opening in 1997. The remote location that provides an enchanting getaway from the real world has certainly been...
Shou sugi ban: If you haven’t heard of this new design trend yet, then rest assured that you will, as it’s turning up everywhere from custom home siding to furniture finishes. This ancient Japanese wood preservation technique involves charring wood in order to promote resistance...
If you happen to be a sucker for the out-of-the-ordinary, sometimes you’re lucky enough to stumble upon a store that just kind of blows your mind, one that you can spend hours in, picking over every nook and cranny, trying not to miss a thing....
Whether it’s in an alpine retreat or a home in the city, an integral part of any house is the master bathroom. It’s a private space that we use to prepare for the day to come, physically and mentally, and it’s also where we calm...
Charles Schwab, the founder of the investment services company that bears his name, sits at a small stone conference table in his San Francisco office and gestures over the bay toward the northeast. “You can try to imagine a place from people’s stories, but it’s...
You don’t have to live in California to know that America’s love affair with wine has blossomed into a serious relationship. We collectively drank 805 million gallons of table wine in 2018, according to the Wine Institute of America. That’s more than we’ve consumed in...
This is the machine that has literally brought this business to where it is today,” Thompson Limanek says with palpable excitement. As he pulls the cover from a circa-1967 manual sewing machine that stands — at once modest and monumental — inside his workshop, he...
Each year offers new opportunities to create a more environmentally conscious world, and many of these start in the home. With developments in energy efficiency coupled with a rise in green-focused lifestyles, new technology, and the challenge of keeping up with what’s conceptually in style,...
A log cabin sits at the entrance to the headquarters of Peachey Construction near Montana’s Canyon Ferry Lake. At first glance, you’d swear that it’s one of those 200-year-old, adze-hewn structures that someone dismantled back East and had shipped out here for its reclaimed charm,...