Although it’s a region, the West sparks creative interpretations that expand far beyond geography or location. The beauty and uniqueness of the landscape itself, visages formed over millennia, have inspired many. But today’s artists and architects find equal inspiration in the West’s culture, myths, history,...
Best known as the setting for the long-loved film “Pretty Woman,” the iconic Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, is a history-rich landmark. In January 1928, Beverly Hills was home to 18,000 residents, including movie stars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Rudolph Valentino, and the...
A collection of grand structures within the national parks pays tribute to the pioneering architects who embraced the harmony between rustic design and first-class comfort. Many of these structures have been restored to meet modern building criteria, and adventure travelers who favor wilderness luxury over...
The Burnt Forest Collection from MFGR Designs “Just because they look like ski bums, doesn’t mean they are. Okay — they are, but they also make rad stuff.” That’s the opening of the story on MFGR Designs’ website, and it sums up their nature-inspired, innovative creations....
These are the most challenging times that almost any of us can remember. But as we continue to face uncertainties and difficulties that are unprecedented, we have to remember that this is not the final verdict. In past issues, I’ve written about the positive effect that...
Discovering landscape architecture at Texas A&M University was hardly David Hocker’s aha moment. For a kid who loved the outdoors, made pocket money doing yard work, and had some great art teachers in high school, it simply seemed logical. “It was kind of a gut feeling...
It would only make sense that a cowgirl who was married on horseback would also conduct an interview atop her mare. And why not, when the temperatures are in the 70s, the sky is a cloudless blue, and there’s a need to check the irrigation...
Tim Lozier adds his own creative spin to classic Western-style furniture in a range of club chairs and sofas, desks and dining sets, beds and dressers that he designs and builds — each one inspired by the collectible creations of Thomas Molesworth [1890–1977]. “It’s classic...
Beth Cavener’s ceramic sculptures defy easy explanation and gravity alike. Since her 2002 residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, Cavener has sculpted animals — mostly goats, hares, and wolves, but also outliers like the life-sized snow leopard staring intently at a hornet’s...
With modest brevity, Mardie Rees describes herself as “a sculptor of the human figure and the portrait.” Yet, that summation embraces a breadth of subjects in the expressive artworks she produces in the studio beside the home she shares with her architect husband, Jeremy Broderick,...