Contemporary frontier
I saw this home in the most recent issue of Western Interiors & Design and thought it was a great example of what a modern home should do – engage the local landscape while employing its own unique aesthetic. This excerpt from the article sums it up pretty well:
From afar, the house that Lori Ryker and Brett Nave designed in the Wapiti Valley, Wyoming, evokes the freight trains that still rumble across the high prairie. Each room is clad in overlapping materials and separately expressed in a linear sequence of interconnected volumes. But the designers see it differently.
“We took our cues from the rock formations and their varied colors,” says Ryker. “The exterior forms were shaped by our thinking about the interiors, and we strove to make them an integral part of this wild and beautiful landscape.”
What defines a modern home to you? The objects that go in it? Sustainability? Its contextual relevancy?
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To me a modern home is a conscious blend of form and function where the design is driven by the explicit purpose of the space. It should both be sensitive to it’s surroundings, and hopefully the environment. It should not contain any unnecessary adornment. That’s a great looking house. Crazy to think that it is in Wyoming…
I am so in love with that home it’s not even funny. It almost hurts my feelings.
Modern to me means devoid of overly traditional elements, blending form and function, and (yes) conscious of its surroundings.
Modern means integrity.