Clues inside and out of Tom Loeschner’s quaint Floriston home indicate the presence of a woodworker. Inside, intricate wood details pop throughout the rustic cabin, which Loeschner explains is one of the few original structures remaining in the historic railroad town. A patchwork wall commands attention...
Given the theme of our Best of Tahoe feature well, we thought it would be fitting to showcase some of the hottest products in watersports ahead of the summer season. After all, we could all use some leisurely fun in the sun after the rocky...
On March 5 (before social gatherings became a thing of the past), hundreds of guests descended on the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe to celebrate the winners of Tahoe Quarterly’s 17th annual Mountain Home Awards. The event, which was presented by Whittier Trust and benefited TQ’s...
Concrete chalk. That was the texture of the snow on Taos’ West Basin, a steep and slippery swath of terrain at New Mexico’s biggest ski area. It was also the venue of the next day’s big-mountain competition, which I was in. Hard as heck, but...
Like most architects, Clare Walton of Tahoe City’s Walton AE uses numerous tools and methods when starting a new design—sketches, photos, 3-D modeling software—but when a client opted to demonstrate her wishes for a future project with carefully composed shoeboxes, it was a first....
Everyone has been in a neighborhood like this—modestly sized houses, ranging in age from sometime around the Kennedy administration to only a few years old, kids’ toys and bikes resting in a delineated landscape, the familiar taste of suburbia found block after orthogonal block....
For most of his 67 years, Tom Carter has been a perpetual motion machine. The Tahoe resident has scaled Yosemite’s El Capitan 13 times, skied thousands of miles through the Sierra Nevada and ticked off impressive expeditions around the globe....
American artist Gordon Matta-Clark studied architecture at Cornell University in the 1960s and went on to an unconventional practice that he referred to as “Anarchitecture,” existing somewhere between the world of art and deconstruction. Anarchitecture is described on his Wikipedia page as “a conflation of...
When building a home around a stream, many magical and frustrating things can occur. On the west end of Donner Lake, the magic won out over serious constraints, and a magnificent creekside home displays what happens when patience, simplicity and artistry combine on a unique...
Roger Carver sometimes speaks like he’s writing a movie script. He refers to himself in the third person. He finishes a thought like he’s writing dialogue for Forrest Gump: “That’s all I have to say about that.” He muses over snowboarding with throwaway buzzwords that,...