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A woodland Sonoma farmhouse bordered by grape vines. A rustic Calistoga estate draped in native Syar stone. A Napa Valley weekend home featuring the ‘greatest hits’ of famed architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen. These are just a few of the homes featured in At Home in the Wine Country; Architecture and Design in the California Vineyards, a new book by Heather Sandy Hebert and Chase Reynolds Ewald.
The best collaborations have a special kind of alchemy. Sure, friendship matters; but it’s much more than that.
In a true fusion of talents, each partner balances and respects the other, staying agile and agreeable as setbacks inevitably arise. And in the end, they forge something shiny and new—or in this case, furry—to surprise and delight the world.
Yes, Chase Reynolds Ewald and Audrey Hall have done it again...
Thank you, San Francisco Magazine for the feature on At Home in the Wine Country!
And to SPACES MAGAZINE for the in-depth interview!
For my article on Designer Max Humphrey and our book MODERN AMERICANA, read on…
Oh, give me a home: Bison coffee table book reflects authors' love of iconic animal
For the Billings Gazette article on Bison and my partnership with Audrey Hall, read on…
From Cowgirl Magazine, by Ross Ewald:
Photographer Audrey Hall and writer Chase Reynolds Ewald have published six western lifestyle books together over the past 11 years. Here, they discuss their upcoming book Bison: Portrait of an Icon, the comeback story of an animal that was hunted to near-extinction in the late 19th century. Bison weaves together Hall’s photography and Ewald’s writing with a foreword from writer and filmmaker John Heminway and an essay by Montana Poet Laureate Henry Real Bird to paint a picture of the U.S. National Mammal’s history and significance.
Architectural Digest on American Rustic:
A new book that celebrates the spirit and beauty of country living.
American Rustic in The Greenwich Time
A book that was exceptional and I enjoyed in a big way was “American Rustic” by Chase Reynolds Ewald, daughter of Debbie and Russell Reynolds.
The book, with the most wonderful pictures by Audrey Hall of the houses in the West, are fabulous examples of American Rustic.
Arts & Crafts Style and Spirit in the Chicago Tribune
Chase Reynolds Ewald, a writer in Tiburon, Calif., truly loves furnishings made in the Arts and Crafts tradition. That love affair intensified when she moved into a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home…
Big Sky Journal on Cabin Style
Cabin Style: An artful experience
You can guess you’re in the home of an artist when every object, whether an important painting or a repurposed flea-market find, is placed in perfect juxtaposition to the other objects in the rooms. The result is that each item, no matter its value, is elevated to a piece of art. It can be a rarified experience to visit such a place, where the filled spaces are perfectly balanced by the negative spaces, and where the featured items are positioned to create an experience that is at once gallery-like and restorative.
“In cabin style, interiors and exteriors work together to comprise one harmonious whole. Whether the expression is modern-leaning or a more literal reference to regional history, the result is the same: buildings that seem to belong.”
This quote, taken from “Cabin Style” by Chase Reynolds Ewald, is the perfect summation of not only what the homes in this new release have in common, but also a philosophy that we here at Log Home Living have been endorsing for decades: Rustic log and timber homes grace the land on which they sit; they don’t impose themselves upon it...
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The Scout Guide scouts out Rustic Modern
“Another coup for Chase and Audrey,” says JLF principal Paul Bertelli of the book’s author and photographer. Rustic Modern’ is their latest work of art shining a light on the region’s built environment. It is a joy to be included in the charm and grace these two bring to the printed page.
Cabin Style, By Chase Reynolds Ewald and Audrey Hall
Gibbs Smith; $50; 224 pp.
Big skies and vast wilderness fill the pages of Chase Reynolds Ewald’s and Audrey Hall’s “Cabin Style,” a book whose simple title undersells the beauty in its 224 pages. These amazing homes in the American West are filled with rough hewn logs, wood floors and big stone fireplaces, and the decor adds to the sense of place. Windows look out onto grassy plains or wooded lots and nearly every one has a view of a mountain range. Maybe it’s time for a vacation.