SHED Architecture & Design is a bit of a maverick in today’s design world; they hue to a pragmatic rather than a conceptual line. That’s no accident. Based in Seattle, Washington, founders Prentis Hale and Thomas Schaer met while pursuing their masters in architecture at the...
Café Solo from Eva Solo Eva Solo opened its doors more than 100 years ago, and today, it’s managed by Jan Engelbrecht, the fourth generation of the founder’s family. The company was originally established to manufacture functional, high-quality kitchen utensils for the Scandinavian home. Since then,...
Colorful tissue-paper banners flutter high above El Mercado Market Square, a three-block outdoor plaza in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Mariachi music rings through the air, and tempting aromas from restaurants tease the taste buds. Artisans sell souvenirs from small booths on the sidewalks, and stalls...
When you’re a trustee of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, you know a thing or two about art. So when Philip Maritz put together his plan for The Ameswell Hotel in Mountain View, California, his vision to infuse contemporary paintings, sculptures, and photographs into...
In the mid-1970s, Mark Klett was a young man with a degree in geology and an interest in photography when he heard about an intriguing United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The agency was sending geologists to the West to take pictures from the exact...
Artist Dan Namingha comes from a succession of historically significant artists, and he continues that tradition with his own work. Born and raised in the Hopi village of Polacca, Arizona, located at the base of First Mesa, Dan now lives surrounded by the sky and...
Mark Kelso is an artist’s artist: he’s one of those rare and talented people who’s good at everything he does, which some might find annoying if he wasn’t also one of the most charming and engaging personalities you’ll ever meet. Hailed as one of the...
“Getting lost so you can find your way back” has been a theme, both professionally and personally, for architect Larry Yaw. And his adult children like to remind him of this regularly, he says, recalling the many adventures the family took in the backcountry around...
When Max Baucus’ term as ambassador to the People’s Republic of China ended in 2017, he and his wife, Melodee Hanes, had a decision to make — though it really wasn’t much of a conversation. “We wanted to live in Montana. We knew we wanted...