Glen Ernst wanted his last project to scare him. The Arizona-based home builder and operator of Peak Ventures knew he had a swan song on his hands. Believing this to be his final major construction project, Ernst initiated the venture in 2017 after purchasing a lot...
Jay and Sandra Mesinger cherish the times their whole family is together under one roof. In fact, they cherish it so much that they even have a term for these occasions: “Fam-O-Lam” is what they call it when their four grown children, five grandchildren, and...
Andreas and Naomi Kunert, the founders of Ancient Art of Stone, complete their handmade, one-of-a-kind architectural installations with a process they call “waking up the stone.” [caption id="attachment_23093" align="aligncenter" width="500"] This installation includes rose quartz, turquoise, Peruvian chrysocolla, red avatar jasper, and beach pebbles, andis part...
Glowing at the westernmost point of a long plaza, a mass of golden glass tentacles absorbs and diffuses the last rays of the sinking sun. A giant tower of blue glass shoots up between the broken stones of an ancient city. Floating like huge freshwater...
Werner Segarra was visiting his mother in 2001 when he idly opened a closet and saw boxes labeled with the names of each of her children. He was 34 at the time and a successful commercial photographer in Puerto Rico, where he’d been born and...
The Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program offers visitors a chance to experience the settings where great paintings and sculptures were created, highlighting 44 places across the U.S. where noteworthy artists of the past once lived and worked. As part of the National Trust for...
With Arches National Park to the north and Canyonlands National Park to the southwest, Moab, Utah, is known as a destination for outdoor enthusiasts and off-the-grid adventurers. Its severe beauty and geographical grandeur are unlike anywhere else in the West, and the town itself maintains...
Lisa Gidday and Amy Lehman were searching for a new dining room table when they met interior designer Gina D’Amore in her Denver Design District showroom in 2013. “Actually,” recalls Gidday, “we first met Gina’s husband, Eric Bauerle, a woodworker whose line of tables we...
Grant Redden’s paintings of the people, animals, and terrain of the West have a gentle, almost tender luminosity. Even in portraying the rugged trappings of ranch life and the features of an often unforgiving landscape, his works have an intimate, deeply attentive quality that strikes...
In 1991, just as his career was about to take flight, Tucker Smith created a 10-by-12-inch painting of a scene he’d observed at the Kentucky Derby. Capturing the commotion before the post parade, Derby Day depicts horses and riders entering the field in front of...