1 DINING ROOM
et in a picturesque location—a boundless meadow on the outskirts of Aspen—this home practically begged for a designer who knows how to steal scenes. Enter Los Angeles-based, who won an Emmy Award in set direction for his work on a Ben Vereen special before jumpstarting his career in residential and furniture design. One of the biggest showstoppers in this Aspen project is the pasture-side dining room, which is a study in wood tones—but not your typical rustic cabin logs. The live-edge dining table, for example, was hewn from one hulking piece of claro walnut. The walls and ceiling are clad in rift-sawn oak—a cut that transforms tree rings into a clean-lined, linear motif—in a muted, honeyed finish. “We wanted a warm, handsome, and modern envelope,” the designer says. Adding to the cozy-cool vibe of any dinner party here are polished concrete floors, a Jonathan Browning Studios chandelier that casts a bewitching glow, and a large-format artwork by German photographer Andreas Gursky. Joyce may be based in LA, but what he achieved in this space—evoking “the textures and colors of nature,” as he puts it—is
