High Design

Architect Bill Curtis & Designer Ann Wolf Design a Houston Home Around a 100-Year-Old Oak Tree

Nestled in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, architect Bill Curtis’s home places a century-old live oak at the heart of its design. Featured in his new book Building on Tradition, Bill has shaped every corner with intention.

Created as a thoughtful downsizing, the house is intimate in scale, and inside, designer Ann Wolf brings the architecture to life with layered color, Arts and Crafts–inspired details, and a sense of warmth that feels collected and enduring.

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