Art Inspired Lodging: CA, Santa Cruz, Treehouse

If you would like to be closer to nature, you may want to rent a custom built home in a tree, designed by Dustin Feider…his Pine Cone Treehouse is currently on Airbnb. Feider is a talented designer/builder, who not only creates one-of-a-kind treehouses for celebrities such as Robby Krieger of the Doors, but also rents them out.

In 2005, Feider founded Treehouse with the intention of inspiring people to reconsider how we can more harmlessly co-exist with nature. While completing his BFA in furniture design (Minneapolis College of Art and Design), Feider created his first geodesic structure 50 feet up in a Poplar tree in Pewaukee, Wisconsin.

Feider has created over forty artistic treehouses. As an artist and designer, he has received national and international recognition in the design community, appearing in over 50 design publications and television shows around the world, most notably Popular Mechanics, Dwell, and Wired Magazine. He has been featured on Animal Planet’s “Ultimate Treehouses” and “Treehouse Masters.” Find out more about him on his website –  http://www.o2treehouse.com/