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All local artisans, into the pool!

A high-design wine-country hotel brings the best local talent into play.

By Elizabeth Varnell, Photograph by Monica S. Lee

This is what happens when the Bay Area’s best craftspeople and tastemakers pool their talents to outfit the perfect Napa Valley getaway: Behold the Bardessono, Phil Sherburne’s sprawling 62-room hotel, as thoroughly green as it is modern, on a six-acre, 80-year-old Yountville homestead.

Arrive empty-handed via electric car or car share at Yount Street, where Christina Salas-Porras, former assistant to Alice Waters, is the director of guest experiences. Thanks to Salas-Porras’s unspoken law of “no local creative left behind,” Blue Bottle microroasts coffee for the hotel’s menu, Flora Grubb masterminded the vertical air-plant gardens, Point Reyes’ Coyuchi hand-loomed the organic linens, and Tamotsu Yagi created the logos and signage. And leave the toiletries at home: Julie Elliott, of In Fiore, developed the hotel’s line of soaps and lotions.

Even bringing a change of clothes is superfluous at the Bardessono. Matt Dick, the creative director of International Orange and Matocreative, is the hotel boutique’s buyer—he has stocked the shop with Postalco leather goods and Tsukikageya kimonos from Japan, bold jewelry by Philip Crangi and Stacey Lorinczi, and Basil Racuk bags. His beautiful aesthetic also carries over to the impeccably outfitted staff, dressed in Yohji Yamamoto and Tim Hamilton overages or Japanese uniforms by Hakuï.

Come summer, a different pool—a rooftop one with views across the valley—will be the epicenter of cool, especially with a drinks menu spearheaded by bar consultant extraordinaire Thad Vogler and bites by Sean O’Toole, recently of Michael Mina.

6526 Yount St., Yountville, 707-204-6000, bardessono.com

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