Alpine Modern is a design and lifestyle brand based in Boulder, Colorado. Our story begins in 2013, when we opened the Alpine Modern Shop in downtown Boulder. From there, we dreamed big and created a beautiful quarterly print magazine about architecture, design and elevated living in the mountains around the world. Alpine Modern Issue 01 launched in November of 2014. We opened our first Alpine Modern Café in Boulder in August 2015 with the desire to create a physical space for the community to gather for a new elevated experience. Today, you can also shop thoughtfully curated products from known modern design brands as well as small maker labels at our Alpine Modern online shop at https://www.alpinemodern.com.

Building on the love we received from readers of our printed magazine, we launched Alpine Modern Editorial (alpinemodern.com/edi... this spring, where we continue to publish "slow content" about incredible cabins and splendid mountain homes, interviews with architects and designers, portraits of makers in the mountains, and musings on walks in the woods and alpine cooking ingredients.

We are sharing with you a selection of Alpine Modern stories and Curations here at Dwell.com.

Say hello to Alpine Modern via concierge@alpinemodern.com or talk to us on social media, where you find us under @alpinemodern.

Stable in the Landscape
Austrian architect Thomas Lechner reduces the idea of vernacular alpine architecture to a design so consequentially essential in...
Peaceful Panopticon
A hike to the Park Butte fire lookout on Mount Baker, Washington, tracks the forgotten history of the sparse observation towers...
Retreat in the Aspen Grove
Studio B, a Colorado based architecture and interior design practice with offices in Boulder and Aspen, first designed the...
The Vindheim Cabin: Snowbound in Norway
Architect Håkon Matre Aasarød, partner at Oslo-based studio Vardehaugen Architects, led the design of Cabin Vindheim, situated...
The Fire Shelter
Simon Hjermind Jensen, founder and lead designer at SHJWORKS, created the Fire Shelter together with a team of architect...
The Weavers of Lapua
More than a hundred years ago, the great-grandfather of Jaana Hjelt’s husband, Esko, opened a wool and felt boot factory in...
Hillside Holidays
Nestled into the hilly landscape of Southern Germany’s Allgäu, Haus P by Studio Yonder für Architektur und Design is a holiday...
Slow Architecture
When Italy’s first McDonald’s poised to open in 1986—a stone’s throw from the fabled Spanish Steps in Rome, no less—it ignited...
An Expert's Guide to a Bavarian-Coloradan Holiday
This holiday season, we’re handing the mic over to some of our most active publishers who have brought a wealth of passion to the...
Northern Lights Optic × Alex Strohl
Northern Lights Optic collaborates with Madrid-born, French photographer Alex Strohl.
Backcountry Haven
Professional backcountry snowboarders Zach and Cindi Lou Grant modernize a run-down A-frame cabin outside of Park City, Utah, to...
Growing Up Weese
Her parents are architect Harry Weese and pioneering design shop founder Kitty Baldwin.
Minimal Design, Maximum Protection
Icy, pelting rain, blinding snowstorms, radically shifting temperatures—Ljubljana-based OFIS Architects and structural engineers...
How American Modernism Came to the Mountains
After World War II, Chicago’s design elite flocked to Aspen for ski and summer holidays, galvanizing the then-sleepy alpine...
Naked Naust
Inspired by Norway’s traditional boathouses, Swedish architect Erik Kolman Janouch plants a cottage into Vega Island’s barren...
Go Wild
Forage the forest floor, fish the mountain creek, and relearn respect for nature’s abundant gift of authentic ingredients.
Quietly Swiss
A chalet shaped after the surrounding mountains of Les Jeurs.
Summer Graze
Can you hear the sound of moo-sic? During summer, the von Trapp family gazes cows and other farm animals on their nordic ski...
Out of Town
The modern country escape a New York City couple builds in the Catskill Mountains quickly becomes home base
Utahan Utopia
A Slovenian architect’s “wooden tent” design pushes the conversation on nature-respecting modern mountain architecture and...
Landscape, the Architect
High up in the mountains of Norway, the V-Lodge’s simplicity in design and choice of materials speak to its wild surroundings.
The Skyward House
Dwelling in a tiny Tokyo apartment for decades, the school teacher had dreamed of a vegetable and flower garden with a little...
Post Tenebras Lux
A poem
In Praise of Walks and Wilderness
Writer and poet Haley Littleton seeks out fragile moments of being that exist in nature—on trails, summits, and cliffs.
A Whistler A-Frame
If the multiple languages and accents overheard in lift lines and on gondolas tell any kind of a story, it’s that everyone from...
Breakable Minimalism
As she creates earthy, minimalist tableware, Kelli Cain often muses on the people who will sip from her cups and slurp from her...
Reinhold Messner: A Man and His Museums
We met with the mountaineering legend in the Dolomites, where the late architecture icon Dame Zaha Hadid designed the last of...
Art ± Geology
Contemporary artist Sarah Winkler’s experimental painting technique mimics the addition and subtraction of geological processes...
Extreme Shelter
Living ecological alpine pods in the Italian Alps.
Alpine Granola
Recipe: Alpine Granola
Architecture Improv
An interview with David Sellers, the "Father of the Design-Build Movement"