Fearon Hay has created a moody retreat in the mountains near Arrowtown.
It’s almost filmic. After turning off the main road to Gibbston and up the switchback Crown Range Road, you turn onto a rutted gravel driveway and a dark house in the distance flits in and out of view. As the road swings and turns, the house is sometimes there and sometimes not, a shadowy shape on the horizon backed by the Remarkables mountain range. The view takes in a wide sweep from the Remarkables to Coronet Peak, looking down the valley towards Queenstown.
Owners Bentley de Beyer and Dean Sharpe live in New York, but have maintained a strong architectural connection to New Zealand in their 15-year absence. They own a Gordon Moller-designed
