In Central Texas, a home’s architecture reflects a deep appreciation for its setting. Elk Ridge Retreat, named for an elk herd that often roams the property, is surrounded by acres of open, undeveloped ranchland and is situated to capture the views of the rugged, rolling...
Rococo Square Serving Platter by Annieglass Regal and traditional with an artistic flair, the Rococo Square Serving Platter undoubtedly makes a statement at the dinner table. Each piece is hand-painted with a layer of 24-karat gold and individually set into a high-temperature kiln, allowing the glass...
“Time is a constant in all of our lives,” says artist Jason Kowalski. His evocative paintings of weathered, often abandoned restaurants, motels, vehicles, and other artifacts of the West comprise, he says, “an archival portrait of the American story.” Rife with rust, dust, fading paint,...
Though many of Curt Mattson’s sculptures are tabletop-size, the artist himself is larger than life. A sculptor, painter, preacher, historian, and horse trainer, Mattson brings decades of study, skill, and execution to his artworks, and then that ineffable quality that defies easy definition — spirit....
Oil painter Elizabeth Pollie extracts the extraordinary from the ordinary. Her still-life depictions of shells and sake jugs, of tiny, blue-spotted eggs and feathers, reflect expansively on the alchemy of daily routine and pull on the threads of the lacy beginnings of awareness. She also...
ARCHITECTURE | Hendricks Architecture CONSTRUCTION | John Radleigh Construction, Inc. There was a time when the Lyons family enjoyed rappelling from a bunk bed with a rope down a ladder staircase in the middle of the night. They also recall instances when the family of five took...
Washington Avenue, home to the newly revitalized Hotel 1928, has long been a thoroughfare in the Central Texas town of Waco. Its bridge spans the Brazos River and connects East Waco to downtown. Since this city’s founding in 1849, people have come to Washington Avenue...
In the 1960s, tiny Wallace, Idaho, was threatened when the federal government proposed cutting through the historic downtown to lay the last link of Highway I-90. The town’s appearance and charm would have been marred forever without the courage and persistence of two residents: businessman...
The three principals of Missoula, Montana-based Hone Architects + Builders have much in common. They grew up in families who built anything from sheds to shelves and houses from scratch. They’ve all been out in freezing weather working as timber framers. And all are into...
Harry Jackson, the artist credited with revitalizing Western American bronze beginning in the late 1950s, reviving the lost art of polychrome sculpture, and writing a definitive book on Italian Renaissance lost-wax bronze casting, is also the man who, in an authentic cowboy voice, could sing...