Laura and Randy Elia loved their new Santa Fe home so much that they moved out of it two weeks after moving in and stayed with friends nearby where they could watch it via remote camera. The reason they left their five-bedroom house just days after...
A personal crisis in 2006 prompted developer Douglas Ayres to embark on a global journey in search of wisdom and understanding. When he returned to his home in Paso Robles, California, it was with renewed vigor and a passion for art inspired by the natural...
The town of Norman lies at the heart of Oklahoma, surrounded by the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Osage Nations. Founded in the 1880s, Norman has a long and storied past but is perhaps best known today for its football team, the University...
Cadillac Woolly Chap Armchair by Steel Strike We dare you to dive into this handsome chair and not dissolve into pure Western bliss. Its seat cushion is filled with foam and down feathers and is upholstered in handsome antiqued and distressed leather for lasting support and...
California AIA’s 2022 Maybeck Award for outstanding achievement in a body of work in architectural design went to Anne Fougeron, founder of Fougeron Architecture. Of the San Francisco-based firm, the jury stated, “Anne Fougeron is an incredibly impressive architect whose work consistently challenges the profession’s...
When visitors to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco stood before James Earle Fraser’s End of the Trail, they would have experienced the towering sculpture as a reflection of certain beliefs about Native Americans and the Western frontier. But no single perspective represented...
Grain elevators have been landmarks of the West since the heyday of their construction in the 1920s and ’30s. With their tall, shouldered silhouettes and industrial cylindrical shapes, these architectural icons have long acted as beacons signaling from afar the location of the next settlement...
In Chinese astrological terms, the universe has literally aligned for Mel Auberty’s latest show at Gallery 123 in Dallas, Texas, which coincides with the Year of the Horse celebration beginning on February 17. “This is a dream project for me that began about three years...
I love winter. Seriously. I love snow and biting winds and a fire in the fireplace, fur-lined mittens and flannel sheets. Oh, and beef stew and cornbread and hot chocolate. But mostly, I like how things slow down. Shorter days and longer nights seem to...
Recently, I received an email with the subject line: “Saving my mom’s WPA mural….” In it, Jenne Currie, the daughter of Ethyl Magafan and niece of Ethyl’s twin sister, Jenne, wrote that the government is fast-tracking the sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building...