Backen & Backen (formerly known as Backen & Gillam Architects) is a multifaceted design firm integrating architecture, lifestyle, and wellbeing. Backen & Backen (B&B) creates legendary legacy buildings, including boutique private member social clubs across the western US, agricultural farm-stay experiences in northern and southern CA, and an ecological destination resort in the Caribbean. B&B is also known for numerous celebrity and high profile client residences, including Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’s sustainable LA farmhouse, featured in the August 2021 issue of Architectural Digest. The bestselling architecture and design book, From the Land, illustrates many of the firm’s projects. B&B has offices in Sausalito, St. Helena, Los Angeles, and Montecito, CA.