10 Best Private Plots 2010: Stone Quarry Bay

“In line with the owner’s wish to create a retreat in this wilderness, the design makes all use subordinate to the management and care of the native land and wildlife. The building and the pathways are submerged into the landscape. Stone embeds the building into the landform. […] Powerful, wild landscapes capture the soul in the western reaches of North America. This property lies on the western shore of Montana’s Flathead Lake. The site extends out into a shallow bay of cattails surrounded by maritime ponderosa pine and fir forests growing on silty lake soils.”