The Foyer Section (~1,050 sq. ft.) features the main foyer, the entry powder room, and the foyer closet and gallery on the main floor, and the upper floor mezzanine and library.

The role of architecture is to create living spaces with modern day tools, materials & techniques to complement our immediate environment, favoring either functionality or aesthetics.

The foyer at Eagle’s Nest is a testament to architecture’s enduring standards & ideals, beginning with the uninterrupted use of American White Walnut in the entire foyer area: entry doors and sidelights, free-standing staircase, mezzanine and library.

Foyer Grand Stairway Architectural Plans

In the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright, Eagle’s Nest Estate has a profound effect on the people who visit & live there, which explains the dramatic effect that the structures have on their surroundings, and vice versa. The Grand Main Entrance is no exception.

The Grand Main Entrance leading to the Foyer of Eagle’s Nest Estate contain all the hallmarks of the artistic mastery, sublimity & the fastidious craftsmanship that is Eagle’s Nest.

The formal design begins with the grand main entrance’s 9’x12’ solid walnut doors & sidelights of leaded glass.
Upon entry, you are overwhelmed with a feeling as if entering a cathedral in Southern France. The 29 foot arched ceiling & custom Italian chandelier immediately sweep you toward the 24 foot high rear wall of Loewen windows, seemingly creating a translucent tapestry of the
Salish Sea & the Mount Baker in her full regal glory.

The flooring is artistically strewn with the world renowned Walker Zanger natural stone tiles & patterns and heated with redundant hydronic floor heat along with the standard forced air heating.

The view is conspicuously interrupted by the splendor of Shawn Chrisman’s Seattle Stair & Design’s handmade, furniture grade, solid American white walnut freestanding staircase centerpiece with finely crafted mahogany underside by Gordon Elliott. The staircase astonishingly curves as it rises 14 feet to the solid 5” plan walnut mezzanine flooring and the handmade solid walnut library.

Artisans:

Shawn Chrisman’s Seattle Stair & Design – the hand-made furniture grade solid American white walnut freestanding staircase centerpiece
Greater Seattle Floors – the solid 5” plank walnut mezzanine flooring and the handmade solid walnut library
Gordon Elliot & Crew – a meticulously crafted mahogany underside and the handmade solid walnut library