It was very wild, very brushy,” Don Stinson says of the land in Austin, Texas, where he and his wife Barbara built their home and his studio in 2025. “You almost had to crawl into it — on your hands and knees. But we could...
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...
Celebrated Native American potter Diego Romero wants to set things straight, for the sake of historical and popular records. Asked to provide reasons the multitalented artist chose clay, Romero said it was the other way around. “Clay chose me,” said Romero, whose ceramics have been accorded...
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...
Lots of voices need to be heard when designing, building, and furnishing a house. For this new hilltop home in Victory Ranch, Utah, one of the strongest influences came from a mute figure: Chief Long Shadow, depicted in a 1986 painting by Jack Wolfe. “Truth be...
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...
One evening a few years back, friends of Linda Lillegraven stopped by for dinner. Earlier in the day, she’d been working on a landscape of rolling grasslands spooling out across many miles to the horizon and a somber, cloudless sky. The only indication of human...