There is a moment, just before the aspen begins to turn, when the light along the Front Range goes long and gold and entirely particular to this place. It is the kind of light that flatters worn leather, raw linen, brushed brass, and the slow grain of a hand-finished oak. It is also, not coincidentally, the light that exposes a poorly designed kitchen in a single, unforgiving glance. Most of what is sold as mountain modern kitchen design in Colorado today does not survive tha