North 45 Projects creates a swanky country interior for Auric Room

For private members’ club Auric Room 1915, North 45 Projects brings a sense of opulence to Montana’s saloon style and ranch culture. The chic lounge offers food and wine and bourbon tasting in Big Sky’s Lone Mountain Ranch, a 148-acre site that’s been a staple to the area since the development of Yellowstone National Park. The Portland, Oregon–based studio slotted Auric Room into the ranch by conceiving it as a concealed jewel box.

A dark hallway with a small check-in podium greets guests at Lone Mountain Ranch — The entrance to the club is hidden, adding to the air of mystery (Michael Clifford)

Velvet curtains part to reveal a dimly lit hallway at Lone Mountain Ranch — A dimly lit, tongue-and-groove hallway lies to the club’s entrance (Michael Clifford)

One first enters Auric Room via an inconspicuous closet door, then continues down a stairwell through a tongue-and-groove hallway within the ranch to discover the club. The bar is capped with a glossy tin ceiling with a vintage feel. It’s engraved with floral decals and supported by rafters with beveled edges. All are lit with moody brass fixtures.

North 45 Projects designed a dark bar and restaurant with exposed rafters — Rafters with beveled edges add to the country charm of the space and structure (Michael Clifford)

Auric Room features dark, paneled walls with an A-frame roof — The A-frame building adds to the rugged saloon style of the interior (Michael Clifford)

Auric Room 1915’s bar is lit by an antler chandelier — An antler chandelier by Fish Fisher lights up the bar (Michael Clifford)

The sophisticated interior proffers overt references to Montana: an antler chandelier, custom wallpaper of Yellowstone landscapes, cow-print banquettes, mohogany wood paneling, and Czar parquet flooring. But the studio, led by Eric Cheong, leans into rustic signifiers without falling into kitsch trappings.

A green stairwell with silk-screened wallpaper leads to Auric Room 1915 — The main stairwell featured wood paneling in the shade ”Studio Green” and silk-screened wallpaper inspired by 1915 patterns (Michael Clifford)

The bathroom by North 45 Projects blends wood and marble — Wood and marble clad the bathrooms, rich with material duality (Michael Clifford)

The VIP booths at Lone Mountain Ranch featured red walls clad with mirrored panels — The VIP booths are surrounded by Benjamin Moore’s Parisian Red (Michael Clifford)

Dark and warm tones—from the red lounge on the second floor to the emerald and mahogany bathrooms—give the rugged Montana touches a sultry feel. It’s tied together by strategic lighting design where specific pockets are kept dark for a mysterious air. The result is neither antique or modern, country or metropolitan, but an apt melange of Montana.

North 45 Projects carves out a swanky country aesthetic for private members club Auric Room 1915

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