Dana and Randel Shadid are passionate about art. The walls of their Edmond, Oklahoma, home are covered with paintings from floor to ceiling — salon-style, but on steroids. If Edmond has a power couple, it would have to be the Shadids. Dana has had a long...
By morning you are paddling like a maniac, traversing whitewater rapids. At night, you’re clutching binoculars for a close-up view of your favorite thespian. In one day, you can go from an adrenaline junkie to a culture vulture in Southern Oregon, the home of the...
Candid Rogers spent his childhood on a cattle and horse ranch in southwest Texas, where he absorbed both the natural and agrarian landscapes that remain imprinted on his imagination. It wasn’t until just before starting college, when he visited Spain and France, that he experienced...
Natural Charging Stones from Einova For a functional yet elegant touch in an office, a kitchen, or on a bedside table, we appreciate the decorative convenience of Einova’s sleek chargers, made of real black or white marble, travertine, and lava stones. While electronic devices are ever-present...
Nestled in the Chianti Mountains between the West Texas towns of Marfa and Presidio, Cibolo Creek Ranch is a resort that combines five-star elegance with the charm of 19th-century pioneer life. Bearing the Comanche name for the bison that once roamed this area, Cibolo is...
Still-life paintings by Sarah Siltala stir the soul like small miracles. Consider American Goldfinch, for example. The bird looks vibrantly three-dimensional and is thrumming with energy as if it flew in through the window just a moment ago. The bird’s eye shines, creating an eerie...
Early next year, some of Nicole Finger’s paintings will soar to their greatest heights yet. That’s when three works, including Butterfly Express, depicting her 23-year-old daughter, Sam, on a bed of peonies, and Freedom, depicting her 19-year-old son, Max, against the backdrop of Palmyra Peak...
Tony Hochstetler celebrates the natural world’s small-scale wonders in bronze sculptures that combine faithful realism with elegant Art Nouveau, and many of his works also fulfill practical purposes. His Fruit Bat Sconce, for example, serves as a dramatic home lighting feature, with one wing of...
After Jacqueline Lee Bouvier married Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy on September 12, 1953, they did not honeymoon in the Caribbean or Europe. And when the 38-year-old First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, his wife, Clementine, and their children escaped the English winter of 1912...
On the days that artist Hugh Jenkins blows glass, visitors pass the wild chickens on the property and enter his studio to see him in action. Dipping the hot metal pipe into the powder that becomes molten glass, he chats about his 50-year career as...