[caption id="attachment_17349" align="alignleft" width="211"] "Taking Flight" | Cobobolo Wood (duck), Manzanita Wood (branch), Black Walnut (base) | 31 x 24 x 23 inches[/caption] Twelve years ago, Tom Dean left corporate America and never looked back. Now, he focuses on his passion for woodcarving, and credits his...
Jill Carver translates the landscape into line and color. Her ongoing dialogue with place brings us into an intimate setting and allows us to eavesdrop on her surroundings. The exchanges, although quiet with studied pauses, are rendered with an understated palette and minimal brushwork to...
WHEN JONATHAN FOOTE DESIGNS A HOUSE, he thinks like a composer. “When I’m designing buildings,” the architect explains, “I have music going through my head. Key changes, rhythm changes, they’re really key to conceptualizing a building, especially where there are volumes of space, passages, resting...
ALTHOUGH THE ARCHITECTURAL STYLES of San Francisco vary greatly, the image that no doubt pops into most people’s minds is that of the decorative and colorful Italianate row houses and Victorian- and Edwardian-style buildings lining the city’s classic neighborhoods. But as with any cultural hub...
IT'S ELEMENTAL. SYMBOLIC. The center of stories told throughout the centuries. Fire informs our lives and questions our mortality. It is of the real world, but also the divine. It keeps us warm, ignites our imaginations, and destroys as well as engenders. On Fire: Transcendent Landscapes...
OBSERVATION IS CRITICAL TO THE CREATIVE PRACTICE of artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek. Observation, and what American biologist E.O. Wilson described as “biophilia,” the instinctive bond between humans and other living systems. As Prosek explains, it’s a fascination with life and its diversity, “a...
Nature Design Series by Hastings Tile and Bath No longer do we have to decide between white or a solid color for a newly designed bathroom, thanks to Hastings Tile and Bath, a company specializing in a wide range of luxury contemporary designs in ceramic bathroom...
All original prints are not created equal, yet there is a rule of thumb that experts say to apply across the spectrum of artists, printmaking methods, and condition of items at issue: Buy what you love and what you wish to see on your walls...
At a time when a debate rages over the value and the meaning of a painting generated by artificial intelligence — or as international auction house Christie’s described Portrait of Edmond Belamy, “an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses” — it...
Blur a few details, and the Hassayampa Inn refocuses on another time: Calvin Coolidge is president; the improved Model A is replacing the iconic Model T on American roads; America is partying in speakeasies; and the Great Depression approaches stealthily, inexorably. During the “Roaring 20s,” architect...