Windrose Farm
A 400-acre hospitality retreat and working farm in the Smoky Mountain foothills of Sevierville, Tennessee, gathered like an old farmstead.
- Location
- Sevierville, Tennessee
- Type
- Hospitality, retreat and working farm
- Size
- More than 400 acres
- Completion
- Ongoing
Our clients came to us with a dream of a hospitality retreat in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. We saw right away that they are relentlessly hospitable, doors always open, table always set, friends always welcome. With a heart for community and place, they hope to share the joy of the land with anyone willing to come, and to build a legacy farm and retreat that feels like a second home.
The grounds cover more than 400 acres, with low meadows around a lake, rolling hills, and deep forest looking out to the Smokies. The land is a playscape full of natural wonders, and with a working farm at its heart, it feels like a perfect slice of Tennessee gathered into one site.
The brief asked for a full retreat set gently into this landscape, with guest lodging, a restaurant and bar, event spaces, a spa, an artist retreat with studios and a gallery, an outdoor amphitheater, and room for fishing, swimming, climbing, and hiking.
We were drawn at once to the old farms of the region, where outbuildings gather around farm work long forgotten. Their seemingly shuffled arrangement creates a tension in the spaces between, small pockets of outdoor living. Drawing on Tennessee barns, sheds, and dogtrot cabins, we approached the work as a kind of vernacular classicism, using traditional materials and forms but giving them scale and proportion, so the functional and the ordered meet. Familiar forms take on a fresh perspective, and together they become something entirely new.
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