La Casa Builders, Scottsdale, (Ron Steege and Tim Larson, principals) designed and built this diamond-shape-themed home and casita for a DC Ranch family of five requesting contemporary style rooted in nature and tradition. Avoiding overembellishment, self-indulgence and clutter, “Dobrados Diamantes” is inspired by the hand-crafting and natural-materials principles of the 19th/early-20th-century Arts and Crafts movement, whose exemplars include William Morris, Rennie Mackintosh, Gustav Stickley, Louis Tiffany,Frank Lloyd Wright and brothers Charles Sumner and Henry Greene. Elizabeth Rosensteel, Phoenix, completed the interior design.
