In This Designer's Hands, Black Is the Warmest Color

San Francisco Magazine Erin Feher Katie Thompson Carissa Duncan, the mastermind of Esalen’s recent revamp, brings her brand of lush minimalism to her own Carmel Valley home. Carissa Duncan designs like a city girl but lives like a country girl. To reach her secluded Carmel Valley ranch home, she has to ascend more than a mile of winding, single-lane road. The 34-year-old has lived in San Francisco but hails from a family of ranchers and grew up in the bucolic environs of the Monterey Peninsula...