A Cozy Ski House With Midcentury Modern Spirit

For an idiosyncratic ski home in Utah, a family and their designers take inspiration from the irrepressible textile prints of Josef Frank

Catherine Romano

Updated Feb. 1, 2019 1:34 p.m. ET

When a San Francisco couple bought a slick, somewhat masculine, newly built condo in Park City, Utah, their designers knew it wouldn’t satisfy its intended purpose as a welcoming family ski home. “We wanted to make it happy,” said Chloe Warner, of Redmond Aldrich Design in Oakland, Calif. She and her associate Taylor Shanahan started with knowledge that the new owners felt an affinity for the lush, vibrant patterns of Josef Frank, the 20th-century Austrian-born architect and textile designer. Next, they invented a narrative to guide their decisions: What if Frank had a chic granddaughter named Heidi, with all that name’s...