Craig Gosling runs his hand along the fender of his wine-colored 1948 Chrysler Windsor. “Look at those curves,” he coos. Parked on a slight angle in the garage and revealed with a flourish, the car is as provocatively eyecatching as the small details tucked around the bends of this 4,200-square-foot Santa Fe style home in Corrales, New Mexico.

As a mascot for Gosling’s company, Builders West—a magnetic door sign on the car helps advertise the business—the Chrysler’s enduring grace makes sense when you look at Gosling’s architectural ethos, by which he strives to create timeless homes that leave a very small carbon footprint. Over the years, Gosling hopes his Pueblo style house will be much like the car— admired and adored long after other models seem dated. No 1970s shag carpet or frightful dark wood paneling equivalents here—the house is built entirely of extended life cycle materials. In the long-term such materials reduce the operational costs and reduce future carbon emissions. And they remain beautiful long into time.

Save where they join together, nearly every wall in Gosling’s house has been rounded off and softened, and nearly every tone—walls, floors, and ceilings—is neutral. Against such silent backgrounds lie the rioting colors of landscape oil paintings, the popping reds of Oriental rugs, and the black and white of ceramic vases displayed inside top-lit nichos. As much gallery as home, Gosling’s obsessive love of beautiful things—the contours of classic cars, the rounded notes of classicalmusic, and the soft lines and light of Western art—informs the design of this home, at once vintage and strikingly modern.

 

 

 

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