People usually associate log homes with the country, whether beside a lake, atop a mountain or amid the woods. Just as log homes themselves defy conventions, so do their settings. How else to explain a handcrafted log home from Montana situated in suburban Philadelphia.

What's more, the owners collect art nouveau, whose association with the arts-and-crafts movement of the late 19^th. and early 20^th. centuries makes an unexpected, but fitting and colorful connections with logs.