In Bozeman, where long winters insist on still attention and summer light stretches days like opportunity, MFGR has humbly built a design practice shaped by patience, materiality, utility, and purpose. The studio’s work — spanning everything from Adirondacks to carefully articulated homes — resists spectacle....
It’s a rare business story that starts this way: Two boys meet in kindergarten, find plenty of mischief together — including building extraordinary tree forts 25 feet off the ground in the woods behind their tiny Pleasantville, New York neighborhood — go their separate ways...
June in Montana is billowing clouds swelling across a sky that’s met by the spine of the mountains and a bed of verdant greens. The varied hues of plants harmoniously blend into a rich landscape of forests and meadows, mountains and plains. Defined by the stunning...
Kat Porco is reminiscent. She describes a warm June evening, the first summer after she and her husband, Mike, opened One Legged Magpie, an upscale restaurant and bar in downtown Red Lodge, Montana. Upstairs, a group of women were rehearsing for the town’s first drag...
Hairpin turns, pristine alpine lakes, abundant wildflowers, and endless views of the rugged Montana and Wyoming wilderness — these are some of the defining features of the Beartooth Highway, a 68-mile stretch of enchanted tarmac that transports travelers into another world. Jaw-dropping awe is all...
Here’s one sign that a construction project has gone well: when, after the dust has settled, each of the principals involved sings the praises of the next. In the case of a new build in Big Sky, the architect, builder, and homeowner emerged not only...
It leans a little, tilting north toward the Bridger Range, its cracked, weathered boards wearing their best silver patina. In its uselessness, the west wind refrains from taking it down, only teases the old barn with frequent gusts that rattle loose the rusted tin roof, blowing some of it down the hill &...
From a distance, the grassy hills just north of Missoula look like disheveled blankets. Known locally as the North Hills, this stretch of land separates the ever-growing university town from the mountains of the Rattlesnake Wilderness. Donna L. Erickson grew up in the North Hills, on...
Living on the edge of Glacier National Park might seem like a dream. For artist Michael Booth, it’s the reality of a lifetime. The move brought Booth closer to nature, an internal calling that’s led him to some of his most iconic paintings. Having now spent...
Montanans pride themselves on protecting natural wonders, but very few have considered protecting the dark. The dark, after all, scares us. Not the darkness of a room, perhaps, or even a house. But the dark street, the dark wood, and most certainly the dark that...