When Lynn Gray needs to place an object in her Santa Fe home, she makes use of her own internal Geiger counter, understanding intuitively where a thing belongs. She used that talent as a highly sought after interior designer for clients in various cities before...
Joan Benson and Stephen Kent created their first piece of shed antler decor for a client who’d hired them to renovate her three-story, 5,000-square-foot condo in Snowmass, Colorado. Kent had been making furniture and doing design/build in the Aspen area, and Benson was working in...
In the spring of 1998, a handful of the country’s finest Western craftsmen — a group that was, itself, not much larger than a handful — gathered to talk about heritage. And about legacy. They gathered in recognition that their specialized art forms — saddlemaking,...
On a warm day in San Francisco, September 22, 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy delivered a convincing campaign speech to some 1,500 supporters at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Standing in the Grand Ballroom beneath Austrian crystal chandeliers, he spoke of a new frontier and the urgent...
Santa Fe, New Mexico, has long been called “The City Different.” But for really different, take the Turquoise Trail, a National Scenic Byway (54 miles on State Road 14) that starts at the intersection of Interstate 25 south of town and roams southwest to Tijeras....
Jemez Solid Wood Bench by Pfeifer Studio From Pfeifer Studio in New Mexico, this sleek, contemporary sculptural bench is built from a solid log of sustainable Ponderosa pine from the Jemez Mountains and the Santa Fe National Forest. Knots, cracks, coloration and grain pattern will vary...
Michael Hennessey, the founder of San Francisco-based Hennessey Architecture, is known as a minimalist, but his aims are far from minimal. “Even though our work is very measured and composed,” Hennessey says of his firm, “my hope is that it elicits an emotional response. That’s the...
In the 2002 film about Agnes Martin, produced by Mary Lance when the artist was 90, Martin looks mischievously at the camera and delivers this classic line: “Somebody once asked me what was my happiest moment painting? And I told them, ‘When they go out...
Patricia Michaels moves through the world like silk through light: with a gentle grace that belies a structural integrity stronger than steel. She is Taos Pueblo, a mother, a teacher at Parsons School of Design, and one of the most singular fashion designers working in...
Donna Howell-Sickles is known throughout the Western world for her vibrant, joyful paintings of cowgirls. Bursting with color and life, they are also layered with meaning, embellished with spiritual references and representations of ranch and farm life that symbolize the multiple facets and complexity of...