Before Ghost Ranch, a young Georgia O’Keeffe ventured to a family cabin upstate, where early musings on beauty and confinement would lay the foundation for her relationship to nature.
They called it twig architecture, and when the likes of J.P. Morgan and the Vanderbilts built elaborate “tree houses” designed to put them in contact with the restorative powers of the Adirondack wilds, a uniquely American idea was born that brought the outside in, and the inside out.
