STONE HOUSE IN ASHEVILLE

Biltmore Forest, North Carolina

A young couple asked for a design for a 10,000-square-foot primary residence near Asheville, North Carolina, in The Ramble, a New Urbanist community bordering the Blue Ridge Parkway on land that was once part of the Vanderbilt family’s Biltmore estate. Inspired by French Norman architecture, the house is faced in stone with a clay tile roof. The entry facade, punctuated on one side by a stair tower, embraces a garden court, and the first-floor rooms—the living room, the dining room, the kitchen that opens to the family room, a vaulted library, and an office—all overlook Biltmore Forest’s preserved woodlands.