How to design a home in collaboration with nature
A desire for drama was also behind designer Christian Wassmann and his wife Luisa Gui’s decision to build a weekend home in the Catskill Mountains, north of New York City. The plot featured a striking 15ft by 18ft bluestone boulder in a woodland clearing. “There is something cosmic about the ancient quality of rocks,” says Wassmann. “This boulder had been there since the last Ice Age, and it had such an aura of stability.”