Blunk House
- Words Shonquis Moreno
- Photos Julien Sage
A visit to an artist’s home hewn from the wild landscape of Northern California.
- Words Shonquis Moreno
- Photos Julien Sage
Nielson recently returned to live at the house and runs Blunk Space, a gallery in nearby Point Reyes Station that exhibits art and design influenced by Blunk’s practice.
Blunk House is tucked into a thickly wooded ridge above the coastal hamlet of Inverness, 50 miles north of San Francisco. Its wooden shingle roof sits at a jaunty tilt and its redwood clapboard, washed with sun and fog, has turned pewter. The timber-framed house, art studio and all the contents therein—every door, dish and daybed—was handmade between 1959 and 1962 by American artist JB Blunk and his first wife, Nancy Waite Harlow.
