Fresh Tracks

The design firm Electric Bowery reimagines après-ski style for one family's Utah getaway.

- Janelle Zara

Deer Valley, a resort tucked into Utah's Wasatch Mountains, is known for its towering pines and world-class slopes. For Julia DeWahl and Dan Romero, a pair of ski enthusiasts based in Venice, California, and their two young children, it became a second home once they came across a chalet with Swiss and Bavarian influences; the house's stone facade and ornately carved wooden balconies evoked memories of winter escapes to Northern Europe. For all its outward charms, however, the property had one major drawback: Its beige interiors were remarkably lacking in character.

"It was very much a developer project, with no special details," says Stephanie Luk, director of interiors for Electric Bowery, the Venice-based design and architecture studio founded by Lucia Bartholomew and Cayley Lambur that had overseen the family's primary residence. To overhaul this space, the team embraced what it describes as a "narrative-driven process, avoiding the obvious route of reproducing traditional ski chalet interiors to match the facade.