The wide boulder massif below the granite peaks under high cloud

Box Canyon · Yucca, Arizona

Gallery

(001) The land

Photographed on the property in Box Canyon — the granite, the light, the hours the week is built around.

A woman in flowing white raising her arms beside the granite boulders of Box Canyon — Box Canyon

Aerial view of the Box Canyon ridgeline as the sun drops behind the range — The canyon from above, last light

The desert track running toward the mountains with the sun breaking over the ridge — The road out, and the only one

The wide boulder massif below the granite peaks under high cloud — Three hundred and twenty acres

A woman in white standing among the granite boulders beneath the jagged peak — Beneath the peak

A figure in white in the boulder field with the granite massif rising behind — The land does most of the work

A yucca in bloom against a clear desert sky — Yucca, in bloom

A Joshua tree silhouetted against a violet dusk sky — Dusk comes slowly here

The last band of orange light along the desert horizon after sunset — The hour before the stars

A woman carrying a woven basket of just-cut vegetables from the farm — Cut this morning

A woman in a long white dress standing among the granite boulders — The walk in

A figure in white below the jagged peak at the head of the canyon — Day seven

A man stepping between two granite boulders with the sun flaring behind — The scramble

A person climbing the shoulder of a granite boulder — Movement, the way the land asks for it

A couple standing together in front of the boulder field — Nobody is handed a lesser week

Hands lifting a tomato from a basket of just-picked vegetables and herbs — The morning’s picking

A hand reaching into a bowl of just-picked citrus — Citrus, picked by hand

A hand resting on an open botanical reference book under dappled shadow — The 1–4pm window is yours

A Joshua tree in bloom, close — Joshua tree in bloom

(002) The villas, as drawn

Architectural renders of the design that is permitted and stamped — the water court, the living room and the bedroom of every villa.

The villa water court render — plunge pool, hot tub and outdoor shower against the canyon wall — The water court — plunge pool, hot tub, cold plunge · villa render

The villa living room render, opening through full-height glazing to the private pool — Villa living, opening to the water court · villa render

The villa bedroom render — plaster walls, travertine and morning light — Villa bedroom · villa render

The shared pool court at dusk render, lanterns lit beneath the granite hills — The pool court at dusk · render

The walled villa approach render, planted with cactus and desert wildflowers — The walk to your villa · render

(003) Not yet built

The villas and a handful of the days are still study images while the property is built. The shoot replaces them before the first cohort arrives.

Two people hiking a desert wash at sunrise — 6:30am, every day — study imagery

A woman practicing yoga on a granite ledge at dawn — 8am — breath, yoga, stretching — study imagery

A person writing in a journal on a desert boulder — 6am, before anything else — study imagery

A man swimming in a natural desert swimming hole — The swimming hole — study imagery

An outdoor massage under a linen canopy — The treatment travels to you — study imagery

A woman shaping clay at a pottery wheel under a shade structure among the boulders — The pottery wheels, out among the boulders — study imagery

Guests making their own pizzas at an outdoor wood-fired oven at golden hour — The farm oven, and your own hands — study imagery

Guests picking citrus and cutting greens in the farm garden at golden hour — The orchard and the beds, at picking hour — study imagery

Two guests riding horses side by side through the desert at golden hour — Side by side, at a walk — study imagery

Two kayakers on the Colorado River between steep canyon walls north of Lake Havasu — The Colorado, walled in stone — study imagery

Hot air balloons drifting over Lake Havasu at sunrise with desert flora in the foreground — Balloon season over the lake — study imagery

A clay massif on the desert trail among granite boulders, one guest at the edge and another rinsing under a shower fixed to a tree — The mud station, on the activity trail — study imagery

Two players on a desert pickleball court ringed by granite boulders, seen from behind the baseline in late afternoon — Racquet sport — among the strongest longevity signals of any sport studied — study imagery

Two people in conversation on a stone bench — The standing pair — study imagery

A person walking with headphones on a desert trail — 4pm — the player and the trail — study imagery

A guest reading in the shade of a mesquite tree, boulders and saguaro behind — Mesquite shade, and nowhere to be — study imagery

A guest at a telescope on the boulders, the Milky Way overhead — After 8:30pm, under a Bortle 2 sky — study imagery

Oversized outdoor chimes and a stone marimba set among granite boulders — Instruments left out on the land — study imagery

Hands working soil in a raised garden bed — Therapeutic gardening — study imagery