Three connected barn forms rise from a former tree nursery in Gardiner, New York, their asymmetrical gabled rooflines pulling the eye toward the Shawangunk Ridge beyond — a gesture that announces the design ambitions of Wildflower Farms, Auberge Resorts Collection, before you've stepped inside. Opened in 2022, the property was conceived by Los Angeles-based Electric Bowery, whose main lodge structures employ stacked stone, Corten steel, and repurposed timber to suggest something that grew from this 140-acre landscape rather than arrived on it. The open pavilion at the center — its heavy-timbered trusses framing a fire pit and an unobstructed view of the meadow beyond — captures the firm's nature-immersive ethos most directly, collapsing the boundary between building and field. Ward and Gray, the New York studio responsible for the interiors, brought a sensibility that sits somewhere between Adirondack lodge and well-traveled collector's farmhouse. The great room layers deep-cushioned velvet banquettes and bouclé lounge chairs against tongue-and-groove pine ceilings and a terracotta-plastered fireplace wall hung with a folk-art textile — Arts and Crafts warmth without the earnestness. Guest rooms across the 65 freestanding cabins and cottages continue that register: oak four-poster beds, moss-green velvet sofas, kilim rugs, and aged-wood credenzas under vaulted ceilings finished in lime plaster. Every material feels chosen rather than specified, which earned the property a win at Architectural Digest's 2023 Great Design Awards.

1hr 30min drive from NYC

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