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...
Joel Ostlind has a preternatural ability to tell a story in simple lines, without relying on color to fill in details like time of day or season. But how he transforms those drawings into elegant small-edition etchings, pulled by hand, as the earliest printmakers of...
In early July, a fire began near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — a fire that grew so hot, it created its own weather system. Relentless dry winds fueled what would become a “megafire,” casting superheated clouds into the sky that towered over...
Upon accepting the commission to design a residence in Martis Camp, California, architect Clare Walton simultaneously decided to defy and embrace nature. [caption id="attachment_30401" align="aligncenter" width="276"] Architect Clare Walton responded to the steep topography of a site in California’s Martis Camp by designing a house whose...
A lifelong New Mexican, designer-builder Seth Anderson knows instinctively when he’s found a spot with unique resonance. [caption id="attachment_30389" align="aligncenter" width="377"] Inside, custom steel hides the powder room. The 100-year-old mesquite door is 10 feet wide. The ceramic Catrina sculpture in the niche was found in...
Thom Ross may be best known for his bold, stylistic artwork. At his core, however, he is a historian — a storyteller driven not by myth but by a deep desire to understand and reinterpret it. For Ross, creativity is a tool for unearthing truths...