TEPEE TIME Kibler & Kirch owner Jeremiah Young has a reputation as a Western design guru, recently sharing his take on refined Western interiors in Simply Local magazine – and then making an award-winning splash at the Western Design Conference in Bozeman where his team’s showstopping installation, “The Encampment,” received a unanimous jury vote as “Best Exhibitor” for their meticulously constructed authentic Crow Nation tepee and camp tent, decked out in Jeremiah’s signature take on timeless Western style. He also spoke—joined by WRJ Design’s Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer—in a panel discussion on designing luxury residential retreats in the American West. Also at the WDC, JLF Architects’ Logan Leachman and Travis Growney as awards judges, and Ashley Sullivan discussing  architecture in the age of AI at another panel talk.

BOOKING IT A stylish soiree in the flower-bedecked gardens of WRJ Design’s Jackson Hole Stags Landing headquarters served as appropriately lovely launch pad for the arrival of the team’s new coffee-table book, Natural Luxury: Homes Inspired by Nature (Vendome, August 2026). Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer signed copies of the book, which showcases 10 remarkable homes with WRJ-designed interiors inspired by their idyllic natural settings from Jackson Hole to New York City. “If it’s livable luxury you’re after, WRJ Design can show you how it’s done,” writes Mountain Living in the magazine’s July/August issue. “The designers capture the beauty of the landscape in spaces that promote serenity and harmonize with nature. In the end, each home feels rooted, with a powerful sense of place.” 

LITTLE BAVARIA Summer in Vail brings family fun with Antlers at Vail hotel as a favorite home base. Recent visitors (through hosting arranged by Word PR) were @PureWander’s Eileen Cotter Wright and family, posting their Antlers stay as the “perfect Euro Summer … NOT in Europe,” as they enjoyed the hotel’s family-friendly condominium guest suites and pool-with-a-view, the mountain resort town’s Bavarian-style vibe, and the bird’s-nest-shaped play spaces at award-winning Sunbird Park in Antlers’ famously walkable Lionshead Village neighborhood. Bolstering August’s family theme: Family Vacationist calls out “the incomparable Antlers at Vail,” while L.A. Family Travel and CNN praised the summer Antlers “School is OUT, Vail is IN” lodging package as a “deal that actually delivers.”