Cold Smoke

Bozeman, Montana
In Montana’s Bridger Mountains, this 4,000-square-foot home rests low against the land, oriented to frame Ross Peak and the horizon beyond. Clean lines, broad glazing, and minimal form establish a quiet dialogue between structure and site.

Interior Design
Frederick Tang

Builder
Northfork Builders

Landscape Architecture
Field Studio Landscape Architects

Photography
Gieves Anderson

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The architecture distills mountain living into its essential elements. A continuous roofline gathers the living, kitchen, and dining spaces beneath one sweeping plane, while the private wing pivots away for balance and retreat. Stone, weathered steel, and glass express permanence and transparency in equal measure—anchoring the house to its landscape while opening every space to the view.
As featured in Wallpaper* Magazine, 2025
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LARRY PEARSON

Larry Pearson
Founding Principal

University of California, Santa Cruz

Larry Pearson loves to ask questions. His favorite ones start with the same word: “How.” How do we define yet integrate space: space for solitude, space for family, space for friends? How do we tie the lines of architecture to this natural backdrop? How can we authentically connect humans with design—physically, visually, socially, and emotionally?

For more than three decades, these are the design puzzles Larry has worked to solve, one structure at a time, each a unique answer in itself. Influenced by his clients’ dreams; his travels in the US, Asia, and Europe; and a palpable fascination with regional materials and settings, Larry thirsts to create bespoke designs that enrich human patterns of life…or even create new ones.

The natural migration from room to room, the uninterrupted flow from inside to outside, the internal human shifts from “world” to “home”—those are the elements Larry always seeks to elevate, enhance, and ease through design.