Spectacular Oakville Views With Architecture By Aidlin Darling, $7.5M

Set on twenty-one acres of oak-studded meadow in the hills above Oakville, this luxurious aerie in concrete and stone has enviable open views of the Napa Valley. Designed by the San Francisco architecture firm Aidlin Darling, the 5-bed, 4-bath home is tucked adroitly into the slope and set against an…

2023 Winery Design Award: Faust

The brooding black Victorian house nestled on a hillside above Highway 29 looks more like the setting of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale than it does the site of a world-class winery. Built in 1878 and recently renovated by owners Huneeus Vintners, this new home for the Faust brand pairs…

Looking Back: Three Favorite Listings from 2020

In the course of a year, I write dozens of real estate posts for CH+D, and every December, I choose three favorites. This year, one common thread appeared among the houses that resonated most for me. All three were originally designed by influential Mid-Century architects– Ernest Born, Richard Neutra, William…

Living With Architecture In Cow Hollow, $18M

Created by San Francisco's renowned Aidlin Darling Design, 2626 Filbert Street presents an opportunity to live in one of San Francisco’s most extraordinary architectural settings. Set high above Cow Hollow with expansive views north to Marin Country, this is a sophisticated, multilayered composition of elements in exposed concrete, wood and…

Surf Shack Modernism, $8M

Two important names in Bay Area architecture– Ernest Born and Aidlin Darling Design– come together in this oceanfront compound that began with Esther and Ernest Born’s own home in 1949 and continued in Aidlin Darling’s sensitive 2006 renovation, connecting the original structure to a 3-story tower clad in weathered CorTen…

Looking Back: Three Favorite Properties in 2019

Every year, I write dozens of real estate posts for CH+D about beautiful homes culled from many more submitted by agents, publicists and designers. And while the architecture, design quality, staging and photography are all important, eventually the principal criterion comes down to just one thing: In some wildly-prosperous alternative…

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