Stories Published in Modern Luxury Interiors

The Desert Hypnotic

Modern Luxury Interiors, Spring 2019

Desert Mountain is superb High Sonoran Desert living in north Scottsdale. Its luxury homes surround six Jack Nicklaus-designed championship courses and superlative clubhouses. The retired New Jersey natives sited their 5,700-square-foot two-level home above the community’s tough Chiricahua Tenth hole. Completed in 2016, the Desert Contemporary-style custom is the vision of Phoenix-based architectural designer Bryan Rains and was built by Scottsdale’s Phil Nichols Custom Homes. Angelica Henry and Claire Ownby, both Scottsdale, provided interior design elements. “The Clark home,” notes Rains, “is a harmony of site and structure.”

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Power Couple: The Jarsons

Modern Luxury Interiors, Spring/Summer 2018

Scott and Debbie Jarson founded their Phoenix-based real estate company, azarchitecture/Jarson & Jarson, in 1990, specializing in post-World War II Mid-century modern vintage homes. Their life expresses a passion for the work of significant Valley architects/designers, including Al Beadle, Eddie Jones, Steven Holl, Wendell Burnette, Ralph Haver, Cal Straub, Ned Sawyer, Fred Guirey, George Christensen, Darren Petrucci, John Kane, Bennie Gonzales, Paolo Soleri, Brent Kendle, John Douglas, Rich Fairbourn, Hugh Knoell, Taliesin fellows such as Blaine Drake and Charles Montooth iconcoclast Paul Christian Yaeger and Will Bruder, who designed their home adjacent to the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. “The Jarsons . . . [combine] a passion for quality design and architecture, a richly informed awareness of the history of Phoenix and a keen ability to bring to this conversation buyers, colleagues and community members,” says Bruder, FAIA.

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Compass to Camelback

Modern Luxury Interiors, Spring/Summer 2018

Dramatically sited on an acre in Paradise Valley, this one-level custom looks south toward legendary Camelback Mountain, including its eternally devotional Praying Monk. The equally dramatic north entry is sited toward another landmark representational feature, Mummy Mountain. The four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom Desert Contemporary celebrates the open, indoor-outdoor lifestyle this couple has enjoyed in Arizona since childhood, while still ensuring their privacy and delivering views, views and views. The couple climbed the landmark mountain as youngsters, and still do, and the husband is an avid mountain biker. Scottsdale architect Mark Candelaria, AIA, assured them that after the 1960s existing home was leveled, the obstructive foliage removed and a new well-sited home built with ample windows, they’d be looking real good in retirement. Scottsdale’s Claire Ownby and her adept team provided the crisp, elegant interior design.

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