This modernist resort in Northern California, which formed an enclave for artists in the 1960s, has been overhauled by Los Angeles design studio The Novogratz.
Timber Cover Resort occupies an A-frame structure completed by San Francisco architect Richard Clements in 1963.

Located north of San Francisco, within a sandstone outcropping on the craggy Sonoma County coast, the resort provided a retreat for artists and intellectuals. Among these were photographer Ansel Adams and sculptor Beniamino Bufano, whose marble obelisk, The Expanding Universe, still stands on-site.

Husband and wife team Cortney and Robert Novogratz, and architecture firm Gensler were enlisted to renovate Timber Cove in 2016. The brief was to maintain its California cabin character and further integrate it into the surrounding nature.
Existing materials that were either locally sourced or hand-picked, such as the massive Douglas fir posts and myriad redwood elements, are preserved.
Among the main areas is a chalet-style lobby, known as the Great Room. It is topped by the A-frame structure, and anchored by an original floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace and high-beam ceilings.

The living room-style space is completed with preppy plaids, heritage fabrics, and worn leather ? plus several antler chandeliers.
A bar area, composed of natural woods, stone, and patinated copper, is intended as the centre point of the room.

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