As residential Realtors, we trade in The New Black, The Modern Farmhouse, Contemporary Craftsman, Minimal, Agrarian, Barn Redux, and other marketing tags. I understand the need to describe and distinguish. But I genuinely appreciate this example in which residential and commercial architecture blur in the Napa Valley. These rural ag silhouettes don’t need labels . . . this place making, pedestrian friendly project in Yountville speaks for itself. The newly approved Washington Street design for Handwritten Wines creates public space and commercial retail, office, and apartment spaces in buildings that connect to and are informed by their surroundings. It invites
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