Montage Healdsburg
HEALDSBURG, CALIFORNIA
Interior Design: EDG
Featured products: Drape Pendant, Float 1.0 Pendant, Hold 18 Sconce, Hold 18 Pendant, Hook & Clasp Canopy, Wrap Pendant, Tilt Decanter
The Montage Healdsburg opened in 2020 in the northern Sonoma County town of Healdsburg, California, one of Northern California wine county’s most popular destinations. One of Forbes Travel Guide’s 20 Most Anticipated Hotel Openings of 2020, the Montage Healdsburg quickly earned accolades as the premier resort accommodation in Sonoma County. At 258 acres, 130 guest rooms, and 25 residential villas, Montage Healdsburg is truly extraordinary.
SkLO worked with the interior designer, EDG, as well as the developer and the Montage team to identify key locations within the project where SkLO would add value and create exciting guest experiences.
The Ballroom at Montage Healdsburg is the stylish, multi-purpose heart of the resort, used for elaborately styled weddings, meetings, and events. The Ballroom is lit by a field of over 60 SkLO Drape Pendants featuring 7″/180mm spherical glass diffusers in transparent smoke dipped glass with polished nickel hardware finish and black fabric-wrapped cord.
The designers at EDG integrated a regular grid of Drape Pendants into a complex wood slat ceiling system, and the polished nickel hardware makes for a dramatic effect. The Drape Pendants provide all of the lighting needs of this special space: they work as perfectly functional “house lighting” when fully lit, and when dimmed the smoke glass and handblown details elevate the space with dramatic mood.
For one of the Private Dining Rooms at Hazel Hill — the resort’s fine dining establishment — a composition of SkLO Float 1.0 Pendants in transparent olivin glass and dark oxidized hardware is suspended above the long dining table.
The composition uses the two sizes of Float 1.0 Pendants — 10″/250mm and 16″/410mm — to create an organic feel. The decision to suspend each Pendant from its own canopy gives the cluster of lights an elevated look.
In the Hazel Hill restrooms, EDG composed a group of SkLO Hold 18 Pendants and Hold 18 Sconces at the vanity. The mix of pendant and wall lighting adds sophistication to the repetition of the glass forms. Rotating the central pendant by 90 degrees adds an unexpected detail to the composition. The palette of white glass, dark oxidized hardware, and black fabric-wrapped cords adds elegant mood to the rooms.
At the resort’s gourmet grab-and-go coffee shop and market, the General Store, SkLO provided a row of 3 Wrap pendants that hang above the counter. The white glass “wrap” elements provide a sculptural focus in the space. Suspended on black fabric cords and dark oxidized brass hardware, the palette is rustic but sophisticated.
The premier accommodation at the Montage Healdsburg is the Guest House, a 4,600 square foot residence consisting of three individual bedroom suites sharing separate living quarters with a fully appointed kitchen and pantry.
For the Guest House dining area, EDG added a custom SkLO Hook & Clasp Multi-Pendant Canopy fixture. The 5 pendants have ellipsoid white dipped glass suspended on black fabric-wrapped cord. Dark oxidized hardware contrasts sharply with the organic white handblown glass. Swagged high above the generous dining table on the gently sloping wood ceiling, the elegant lines of the fixture layer over the tremendous views of the landscape and mountains beyond.
SkLO worked directly with the internal creative team at Montage International and the Montage Healdsburg resort management team to provide signature wine decanters for the resort’s fine dining establishment, Hazel Hill. The extensive resort property contains many acres of vineyards, and winemaking from the resort’s own fruit is a unique aspect of the resort. Tilt Decanters from the SkLO Tabletop Collection were selected for this special purpose.
The off-center tilt of the decanters creates instant glass installations when shown staged in groups in the dining room. The opaque white glass detailing of the Tilt Decanter was chosen to add a splash of detail while allowing the colors and character of the wines to remain clearly visible inside.
The decanters quickly became an integral part of the resort, used for table service at Hazel Hill, offered for sale at the resort General Store, and as part of an ongoing signature gift offering for corporate event clientele.
