Stags Leap District.

Our practice in Napa, applied to Stags Leap District.

We serve Napa from the NorCal satellite (opening 2027) with weekly St. Helena / Yountville travel during active projects. Our cadence here is principal-led — Napa clients expect the senior designer in the room for material reviews, not a junior team. The valley's project density makes this delivery model viable in a way it isn't in markets with a single $20M project per year.

The architectural conversation in Napa was set for thirty years by Howard Backen and Backen & Backen — agrarian vernacular, barn-derived, deeply California. That practice is now in founder succession, and the next generation of Napa estate work is reopening to firms beyond the Backen alumni network. Our entry point is the more refined Mediterranean and contemporary-Mediterranean register that complements rather than replicates Backen's lineage.

For the full Napa positioning, visit the Napa market page.

• Reclaimed barn timber and Douglas fir beam framing
• Honed limestone, board-formed concrete, weathered steel
• Lime plaster and Venetian plaster in warm agricultural tones
• Vineyard-facing loggia, outdoor kitchen gardens, and bocce courts
• Sommelier-grade cellar with tasting bar and library wall
• Heritage-oak preservation and drought-adapted native landscape

• Howard Backen / Backen & Backen
• Juancarlos Fernandez (Signum Architecture)
• Walker Warner
• Amy A. Alper AIA
• Aidlin Darling

• Jim Murphy & Associates
• Centric General Contractors
• Trainor Construction
• Facet Construction