ARCHITECTURE | Cushing Terrell CONSTRUCTION | Dick Anderson Construction INTERIOR DESIGN | James Thomas Interiors The process of creating any home succeeds only so far as everyone involved — homeowners, architects, interior designers, builders, and any number of other participants — works together to achieve an ideal balance...
ARCHITECTURE | Jeffrey Dungan Architects BUILDER | Big Valley Construction, LLC LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | Ceres+ Landscape Architecture A Colorado home perched on 35 acres of rangeland with views of the Continental Divide opens its front door to expanses of untamed beauty. Surrounded by wilderness, every aspect of the...
The Arizona Inn opened on December 18, 1930, with a dinner and dance attended by a select group of couples from the nearby University of Arizona. In four years, the establishment’s founder and owner, Isabella Greenway [1886–1953], would be sworn in as the first congresswoman...
Drunk Love in a Log Cabin Quilt by Denyse Schmidt As one of four original quilts Denyse Schmidt exhibited when she launched her business in 1996, the Drunk Love in a Log Cabin design became the “poster child,” she says. That fall, it was a backdrop...
The founders of the Salt Lake City, Utah-based WOW Atelier didn’t connect on the well-trod path of so many architecture firms; they didn’t meet in architecture school or while working for other designers. No. They became good friends while working at Nordstrom, Gregory Walker in...
He was still a kid, just 16 or 17, when Richard Serra spent an afternoon at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco’s North Beach. The future artist was working in a steel mill to put himself through school at the time. He used his fake...
Eight years ago, Denver, Colorado-based artist Robert Spooner relocated from a 200-square-foot studio to a 700-square-foot space, and his paintings reflected the expansion. The new studio allowed Spooner to progress to larger works and create his process of “extreme indirect painting.” [caption id="attachment_29057" align="aligncenter" width="366"] Spooner...
Bob Guelich’s monumental animal bronzes belong to the public, standing ready to be enjoyed and admired at zoos, botanical gardens, art museums, and college campuses nationwide. From a magnificent pride of lions that greets visitors at the San Antonio Zoo, not far from the sculptor’s...
While so many Western artists paint the region’s majestic mountains, canyons, buttes, and plains, Linda Glover Gooch turns her well-trained artist’s eye toward the skies above. The results are cloudscapes as awe-inspiring as the landscapes below. So, it may come as a surprise to learn...
Matthew Grant evokes the essence of Western life in his oil paintings that combine photorealism with a finely trained painterly eye. Born and raised in Texas and now living in Lehi, Utah, he describes his approach and style as “abstract photorealism,” executed in “loosely textured...