In Conversation: Caroline Douglas, Where the Magic Happens I would have to say, clay chose me. I took a pottery class in high school, and from day one I loved it; it is the medium that made me feel most alive. I started out on the...
Hunt Slonem’s New York City studio is an explosion of color, art, and objects, from antique furniture to top hats, harps, framed photographs, plants, and rugs. Though I can’t see his collection of 10 rescued exotic birds, their chatter periodically floats up through the breaks...
At an exhibition a few years before the end of his life, Denver-based artist Vance Kirkland was standing next to his painting Unknown Space Mysteries 9 Billion Years B.C. (1979), part of his Dot Paintings series, when a scientist walked up and stood beside him....
Patricia Benner, much-awarded landscape designer and founder of Benner Reibel Landscape Architects, began her professional life with an MBA. She worked in finance for several years before deciding it simply wasn’t for her. Then her mother, a landscape architect in New Jersey, created a plan...
Prime Angus Beef from Bootheel 7 Ranch Fourth-generation Bootheel 7 Ranch relies on family values, land stewardship, and a passion for livestock. The “ranch” half of the family works cattle in Lusk, Wyoming, while the “city” half runs business operations in Parker, Colorado. With a variety...
It’s a Friday night in Whitefish — Restaurant Week — and I’m dining at Herb & Omni with a table full of writers, musicians, and artists from across the state. We’ve tasted everything from grilled Korean short rib and foie gras pie to chickpea fritters...
On a warm day in San Francisco, September 22, 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy delivered a convincing campaign speech to some 1,500 supporters at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Standing in the Grand Ballroom beneath Austrian crystal chandeliers, he spoke of a new frontier and the urgent...
Santa Fe, New Mexico, has long been called “The City Different.” But for really different, take the Turquoise Trail, a National Scenic Byway (54 miles on State Road 14) that starts at the intersection of Interstate 25 south of town and roams southwest to Tijeras....
Jemez Solid Wood Bench by Pfeifer Studio From Pfeifer Studio in New Mexico, this sleek, contemporary sculptural bench is built from a solid log of sustainable Ponderosa pine from the Jemez Mountains and the Santa Fe National Forest. Knots, cracks, coloration and grain pattern will vary...
Michael Hennessey, the founder of San Francisco-based Hennessey Architecture, is known as a minimalist, but his aims are far from minimal. “Even though our work is very measured and composed,” Hennessey says of his firm, “my hope is that it elicits an emotional response. That’s the...