When a couple moving from a Chicago high-rise to a Sacramento suburb asked Gary Orr, principal of Orr Design Office, to create a single-family home for them, he saw it as a dream job. “As new Californians, they were excited to experience the ‘California lifestyle’...
I’ve been wrestling for some time with what makes a home Mid-Century vs. Modern vs. Ranch-Style, other than the timeline,” says Craig McMahon, principal at Craig McMahon Architects. “It was a very unique time where everything seemed to be changing culturally, including architecture. I can’t...
When you visualize the city of Los Angeles, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Gleaming skyscrapers, maybe. Gridlocked traffic on endless highways, perhaps, or sandy beaches and abundant sunshine. What you probably don’t think about is the Los Angeles River. But it’s there, all...
Adrienne Stein was under pressure. The atelier-trained painter had for years successfully put herself through every artistic rigor: studying and executing drawing for an entire year before approaching oil paint; copying works by Old Masters; studying the ages of art and exposing herself to great paintings...
When Lynn Gray needs to place an object in her Santa Fe home, she makes use of her own internal Geiger counter, understanding intuitively where a thing belongs. She used that talent as a highly sought after interior designer for clients in various cities before...
Joan Benson and Stephen Kent created their first piece of shed antler decor for a client who’d hired them to renovate her three-story, 5,000-square-foot condo in Snowmass, Colorado. Kent had been making furniture and doing design/build in the Aspen area, and Benson was working in...
In the spring of 1998, a handful of the country’s finest Western craftsmen — a group that was, itself, not much larger than a handful — gathered to talk about heritage. And about legacy. They gathered in recognition that their specialized art forms — saddlemaking,...
There is a nine-foot-long parade of rabbits in Dan Ostermiller’s Loveland, Colorado, studio right now — 12 chubby, precocious characters, each with a different personality, doing something entirely its own: leaping, napping, playing, scratching. The piece, A Good Hare Day, is one that Ostermiller has...
Architect Stephen Dynia is the person you want to sit next to on the plane. Or at a dinner party. He’s funny and humble and just the right amount self-deprecating. Dynia has been an artist his whole life and an architect for more than 30...
Jeremy Lipking keeps trying to wrap his head around the fact that he and more than 30 of his paintings are subjects of a retrospective at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. “Honestly,” he says, “when they asked me, I thought, ‘Have I been...