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WRJ Design Celebrates LUXE Interiors + Design 2025 RED Award
July 2,
2025 by Karen Parrish in Business Strategy, Designer Weekly, Industry 
Honoring “excellence, innovation and the best residential architecture, interior design and landscape architecture projects and products,” LUXE Interiors + Design magazine announced its 2025 RED Awards at a special event in Chicago, revealing WRJ Design as the interior design winner for the Colorado +the Rockies region. WRJ co-founders Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer were on hand to receive the award for the firm’s design of a stunning Jackson Hole, Wyoming, residence where “natural materials reign supreme,” says LUXE. “Imagined as a place intimately connected to nature, the home features a tone-on-tone palette that succinctly backdrops the craftsmanship found throughout the interiors.”
At one with its romantic Mountain West landscape, the winning project – a 14-acre compound comprised of main house, guest house and boathouse surrounding a peaceful pond – was created for a client with a “highly sophisticated eye” and a “reverence for simplicity and harmony with nature,” says Jenkins. “We’re thrilled that LUXE recognized us with a RED Award in the highly competitive Colorado + the Rockies region for the subtle luxury of these interiors dedicated to serenity and connection to the natural world.” WRJ’s minimalist approach to the home’s interiors, he explains, is “designed to capture sensitivity to nuances of detail that are here in abundance, but you need to look closely, to discover through exploration.”
WRJ Design chose a palette of earthy tones, soft grays and creamy whites for interiors to complement a medley of hardwood finishes, including salvaged barnwood, that connect to the region’s heritage. Quality over quantity ruled in the curation of furnishings and fixtures, from a hand-blown glass chandelier sourced in Prague to the kitchen’s custom Henry built cabinetry. Leather detailing, including on hardware and lighting, nods to the Wyoming locale, while European and Japanese influences include one-of-a-kind, handmade, and antique selections like the century-old chairs by iconic Danish designer Finn Juhl. Throughout the residence, natural textures of linen, marble, silks, antique limestone, and cashmere come into play on sumptuous rugs, draperies, floors, and furnishings.
This year’s RED Award isn’t the first accolade the residence has earned for WRJ Design: In 2023 the house received the Mountain Living Home of the Year Award. “We are so honored to accept this award from LUXE,” says WRJ’s Baer, “but this home was a true collaboration from conception to completion, so we also want to recognize all of the talented design team, including Design Associates Architects, Rooted Landscape Architecture and JH Builders.”