Chalet Tournesol is the private garden estate of artist and philanthropist Valerie von Sobel, set among the pines of the San Jacinto Mountains just outside Idyllwild.

The house is an A-frame chalet furnished like an old European country house, with hand-hewn beams, brick-and-oak parquet, an antique hunt-scene canvas in the entry, a wrought-iron stag chandelier above the double-height library hall, and an antler chandelier suspended over a stone fireplace.

From there, the interiors shift dramatically. A Japanese suite is composed of tatami, shoji and pale maple beneath a silk canopy. Another bedroom is wrapped wall to wall in brown toile with a painted European tile stove in the corner, while a powder room is entirely lined in pleated rose fabric.

Outside, the property continues through a series of distinct settings: a red torii gate, an arched footbridge hung with paper lanterns, enormous granite boulders and a woven tea bower. At the end of a flagstone path stands a tiny white chapel with a steeple, built by von Sobel as a re-creation of an Austrian chapel she visited many years ago.

Chalet Tournesol offers multiple visual worlds within a single property—European alpine, Japanese, romantic and woodland—and almost none of it reads as Southern California.