Levi Wilson founded the respected decorative lighting company Hammerton in Salt Lake City, Utah, back in 1995. Today, as its vice president of design, he’s spearheading the effort to rebrand its high-end Hammerton Signature series as “a true couture line” of home lighting products. The...
When artist Mark Maggiori attended Académie Julian in Paris, he’d never heard of the Taos Society of Artists. The venerable art organization, founded in 1915, was where Joseph Henry Sharp, Bert G. Phillips, Ernest Blumenschein, Herbert Dunton, Oscar E. Berninghaus, and Eanger Irving Couse, the...
At the far end of a shallow alleyway in Santa Barbara’s El Pueblo Viejo neighborhood, a 19-by-19-foot four-story home wrapped in undulating white plaster has two large keyhole windows, an elliptical garage door, and a front light that dangles from a delicate iron pole stretching...
Custom Hats from The Montana Territory Hat Company Courtney Green founded The Montana Territory Hat Company with a mission to create timeless products that are “grounded in life and built for purpose.” After a childhood spent riding horses and making art, Green went on to work...
“I found out that the sunshine in New Mexico could do almost anything with one,” wrote American arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan after moving to Taos in 1917. In the high-altitude village with an elevation of 6,969 feet, nestled beneath the Sangre de Cristo Mountains,...
Since its opening in 1926, the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel has galvanized its position as a San Francisco landmark. Located atop the city’s celebrated Nob Hill neighborhood, the hotel stands in the footprint of a grand Gothic-style mansion built by Mark Hopkins, one of the...
The exploration of the Western frontier lasted only a few hundred years, but it dramatically shaped our national identity. As historian David Hamilton Murdoch writes in The American West: The Invention of a Myth, “No other nation has taken a time and place from its...
Taylor Crisp can pinpoint the moment she decided to become a painter. Seven years ago, soon after graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts with the goal of writing for television and film, she went to the now-departed Leanin’ Tree Museum...
Mike Stidham may portray a wide variety of fish coveted by anglers, along with the land and waterscapes where the finny prey are found. But don’t mistakenly call him a fish artist. “I play with colors and masses and shapes,” laughs the ever-jovial painter, who...
Larry Yaw has always found his art to be an avocational outlet and also a dynamic creative tool, working as he does in architecture, a field in which most ideas “begin with a series of thumbnail sketches.” As one of the founding partners of the...