At 176 years old, Fredericksburg, Texas, is still abuzz with youthful enterprise. This small historic town located some 70 miles north of San Antonio is estimated to draw more than 1 million tourists annually. In the mid-1800s, a delegation was sent to Germany to promote the...
Overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, approached by an allée of tall palm trees, the Grand Galvez stands as it has for more than a century. Newly renovated, the hotel exceeds her original grandeur, incorporating the elegance of the Gilded Age, enlivened with the charisma of...
Works by renowned Western artists continued to stand the test of time, achieving robust sums during spring 2022 auctions. Thomas Moran and Frederic Remington dominated the top-selling lots during Christie’s Stewards of the West. And Fritz Scholder, celebrated for bold exploration of his Native American...
R.E.C. Chipper Thompson, husband of the late artist Lanford Monroe [1950–2000], remembers a visit they made to Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France. Monet’s house was closed to the public that day, but Monroe wanted to see inside. So, with permission from the guard, Thompson...
In November 2022, Williams Partners Architects will mark three decades in business. Over the years, the Ketchum, Idaho-based firm has built more than 100 houses and, currently, the six-member team is working on 30 projects. It’s an understatement to say they’ve put their mark on...
Los Angeles boasts among the richest troves of public Art Deco architecture in the nation. With its well-crafted bold geometries and bright colors, the style emerged at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, France, and made its way around...
Modern Modular Wine Rack by WineHive Fascinated by the honeycomb structure built by bees, industrial designer John Paulick used it as the inspiration for WineHive, a modern, modular tabletop or wall-mounted wine display and storage system. Made of anodized recyclable aluminum, the 20-cell rack is customizable:...
When Zhaoming Wu moved 15 years ago to his hillside home facing westward toward San Francisco Bay, he couldn’t have imagined the fresh inspiration the view would provide. “I see the sky change dramatically every day, in every season,” he says. “Sunrises and sunsets are...
When Andrew Parent, then in his early twenties, got his first job sweeping floors and otherwise helping out in a bridge-building shop in Billings, Montana, 20-odd miles down the Yellowstone River from his home in Worden, he knew he’d found his life’s path. “It was...
Sean Michael Chavez can trace his roots in the Southwest back 300 years, all of it transpiring within Northern New Mexico, the region he’s always called home. Yet, it took him several years of painting to realize that this history would become the subject for...