Private Residence – St. Helena

Location: St. Helena, California

This home is located on White Sulphur Springs Road six miles west of Main Street, Saint Helena in the Napa Valley.  Sited one thousand feet above the valley floor, the house sits on sixty acres of wilderness that borders California State parkland and Iron Mine Creek. The house is sited immediately above a hillside vineyard facing the valley to the east.  The driveway is located in a grove of native oaks, and the entrance to the house is marked by a 200-foot-long uninterrupted wall that extends into the home. Beginning at the driveway, the wall passes through the entrance, and down into a central gallery, culminating in a living room defined by three walls of glass and two flanking fireplaces. Circulation throughout the house is informally defined by a series of stone steps and landings that follow the descent of the hill and form the basis of the plan. Over the length of the house, four glazed thresholds separate the longitudinal procession of the building with floor-to-ceiling glass lites, capturing views of the landscape left and right.

Finishes in the house are elemental.  The exterior is clad in wide horizontal rough-sawn cedar planks weathered grey with steel windows and door frames. On the interior, sandblasted plywood panels, plastered walls, cedar doors, slate counter tops and glass mosaic tiles are employed throughout.

Services

Architecture and Interior Design

Site Area

60 acres

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