Los Angeles boasts among the richest troves of public Art Deco architecture in the nation. With its well-crafted bold geometries and bright colors, the style emerged at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, France, and made its way around...
Modern Modular Wine Rack by WineHive Fascinated by the honeycomb structure built by bees, industrial designer John Paulick used it as the inspiration for WineHive, a modern, modular tabletop or wall-mounted wine display and storage system. Made of anodized recyclable aluminum, the 20-cell rack is customizable:...
Maria Martinez was destined to become one of the most famous potters of all time. Her work is exquisitely simple but elegant: jet-black pots, coiled by hand and burnished to a soft, beautiful shine. Martinez initially created polychrome pots, decorated in multicolored patterns. In 1918, however,...
When Zhaoming Wu moved 15 years ago to his hillside home facing westward toward San Francisco Bay, he couldn’t have imagined the fresh inspiration the view would provide. “I see the sky change dramatically every day, in every season,” he says. “Sunrises and sunsets are...
When Andrew Parent, then in his early twenties, got his first job sweeping floors and otherwise helping out in a bridge-building shop in Billings, Montana, 20-odd miles down the Yellowstone River from his home in Worden, he knew he’d found his life’s path. “It was...
Sean Michael Chavez can trace his roots in the Southwest back 300 years, all of it transpiring within Northern New Mexico, the region he’s always called home. Yet, it took him several years of painting to realize that this history would become the subject for...
“Artists,” says Jan Mapes, “are scientists at heart. We want to see an object, like a tree, and break it down further and further into its parts, and then put those parts back together visually while asking ourselves questions like, ‘What feelings does that tree...
Teal Blake was born to the paintbrush as a horseman might be born in the saddle. He grew up in Montana, the son of photographer Tona Freeman Blake and cowboy and artist Buckeye Blake, long respected for his distinctive blend of traditional and contemporary Western...
The Western art world has much to celebrate, and here at WA&A, we’re excited to join in on the festivities. This fall, the Santa Fe Indian Market observes its 100th anniversary. As the world’s largest intertribal art market, the event brings together more than a thousand...
Edwina Hawley Milner’s life is a story that’s come full circle, from artist to philanthropist and, at age 84, a practicing artist once more. Milner was born in Oklahoma and was to be named for her grandfather Edwin when Milner’s parents thought their baby would...