North Shore Cabin

Flathead Lake, Montana
Set within an aspen grove on Flathead Lake, this compact home and studio rise lightly above the landscape on a foundation of deep-set steel piers. The elevated design preserves the floodplain and surrounding wetlands while maintaining a direct connection to the lake. Weathered fir, oak, and steel reflect the tones of the forest and the simplicity of lakeside living.

Interior Design
Pearson Design Group Interiors

Builder
Denman Construction

Photography
Gibeon Photography & Audrey Hall

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Envisioned as the architect’s personal escape, the property includes a one-room studio near the dock and a modest two-bedroom house tucked within the trees. Careful siting and minimal disturbance allow both structures to exist within the ecosystem rather than above it—an exercise in restraint and craft.
As featured in Mountain Living Magazine, 2016
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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.