Twenty-five years ago, a biotech executive and his wife sought a weekend escape from their San Francisco-area house. The Napa Valley town of St. Helena sounded like a good idea, even though they weren’t into wine. All they wanted was a simple turn-key house. But...

In his second senior year at Texas A&M, Bentley Tibbs went home to the Mississippi Delta to break the news that he’d decided to add a B.A. in architecture to his B.A. in history. His father didn’t say a word. “All he did was point...

Something has shifted in Colorado artist Jay Moore’s landscape paintings. It’s subtle, this intensity of feeling, and it’s hard to put a finger on just what it is, but it’s there. When asked what’s changed, Moore is surprised anyone has noticed. “Well, I’m always trying to...

Laura and Randy Elia loved their new Santa Fe home so much that they moved out of it two weeks after moving in and stayed with friends nearby where they could watch it via remote camera. The reason they left their five-bedroom house just days after...

Like many sculptures Pati Stajcar creates, her recent work titled Seascapes did not start with a specific concept but rather with the material itself: a chunk of red cedar burl, a knobby growth on tree trunks that loggers cut away because its dense, swirling grains...

Steve Kessler and his wife, Pam, weren’t looking to move out of Southern California, where Kessler had built a thriving company constructing production homes. But when his college fraternity brother called, gushing about a neighborhood near Tahoe called Montrêux, the Kesslers decided to check it...

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