This Revamped 1968 Airstream Is a Love Letter to the American Arts and Crafts Movement

Every detail on a movie set is thoughtfully considered to create a vibe, a mood, an experience. Director Duwayne Dunham and his wife, Jan, took the same approach for the design of their vacation home, a 1968 Airstream.

The scene inside the revamped silver-bullet trailer is cinematic, to say the least—warm, woodsy, and welcoming. With the help of Airstream design studio Perpetually Devastated, Duwayne has essentially created a (mobile) ode to the Arts and Crafts movement.

"I make movies. I’m used to having an entire art department, and I walk in with swaths of color and light and texture and start talking and one thing leads to another," says Duwayne, whose credits include Twin Peaks, Return of the Jedi, and The Empire Strikes Back.  "It takes a certain kind of person to go with that." 

Parker Bolden and Bethany Williams, principals of Perpetually Devastated, were just the right folks for the job, as it turns out. "We talked on the phone for maybe a year before we actually got started, looking for just the right trailer and throwing around ideas," says Bolden. 

"We didn’t just come up with a design, order all the parts, and have Parker wave his wand and put it all together," adds Duwayne. "All of it was piecemeal. One at a time, elements were sorted."

They dubbed the 216-square-foot trailer Monty, after a friend of the Dunhams who had spared no expense refurbishing his home in the Hollywood Hills in the style of an Adirondack cabin. "It’s just this sensational property. I love the colors and the light," says Duwayne.