Dan Knepper lives contentedly amidst the gentle farmlands of western Ohio, in a town where, he wryly boasts, “we now have two stoplights.” But again and again, he revisits the tranquil grandeur of the Rocky Mountain West. “I find myself wanting to paint those big,...
Born in 1925 and raised on the Gulf Coast in the small oil town of Port Arthur, Texas, Robert Rauschenberg matured into an internationally influential artist and a citizen of the globe. Known to his friends as Bob, he may never have visited the Denver...
“Austin is like a Venus flytrap,” says Heather McKinney, founding principal of McKinney York Architects based in Austin, Texas. “Particularly if you’re a Texan. You think of it as a place to go, and then you never leave.” [caption id="attachment_21906" align="aligncenter" width="400"] The remnant of a...
Nomad Portable Espresso Machine from UniTerra We think you’re going to fall in love with the Nomad, just as we did. If you’re a fan of high-quality espresso, we’ve found the answer to coffee-on-the-go. An uncompromising replacement for large, professional espresso machines, Nomad travels wherever you...
Quietly, softly, humbly. The beloved kiawe tree at Halekulani resort in Honolulu, Hawaii, toppled over on August 21, 2016. The culprit? There was none: no vandalism, no hurricane, no unusual weather. Sometime in the middle of the night, the 133-year-old patriarch simply fell. The towering...
Growing up, Max Humphrey didn’t know that interior design was a thing. “My hometown in New Hampshire was preppy adjacent,” he explains. “In my town, parents worked at the ball-bearing factory, but in the next town over they were professors.” It wasn’t until after he’d...
A waggish art dealer once remarked, “A good painting needs a good frame, but a bad painting really needs a good frame.” Serious art collectors and critics agree that worthy artworks deserve worthy frames. It’s a simple but fundamental truth that a frame can make...
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with a population of around 37,000, is a city of surprises. In a rural area, where buffalo roam in the tall prairie grasslands, there’s also a ballet company, a symphony, and a world-class Mozart festival. Frank Lloyd Wright built his only high-rise, the...
Sales that wrapped up during the last quarter of 2020 demonstrated that buyers maintain their affinities for established artists whose reputations — and pricing — are ascending. In signs that deceased masters still hold sway, works by Gerard Curtis Delano took four of the top...
What museum can you spend the night in? And what building is more than a century old, yet brand-new? Those riddles find delightfully inviting answers at the 21c Museum Hotels. In an engagingly original combination of culture and hospitality, the boutique hotel collection may be reinventing...