06 Mar Details: Things We Love
From beachstone jewelry and Japanese-inspired carpentry to cascading chandeliers, WA&A editors select their favorite objets d’art...
From beachstone jewelry and Japanese-inspired carpentry to cascading chandeliers, WA&A editors select their favorite objets d’art...
For producers, artists and collectors, turquoise is the real rock of ages...
For Jon Dick, of Archaeo Architects, it’s important to keep the home in the context of the landscape upon which it sits. “I’m very drawn to the landscape and nature,” he says. “In all of my work I try to open the house up to nature....
Twisted, stretched, bathed in fire, annealed and shaped with a cultivated balance, classically trained silversmith Randy Stromsoe bends the will of metal with an eye on fresh shapes and his mind on tradition. Taking a single piece of metal, he turns it into an exquisitely...
In between the soft colors and the vast lines of a horizon, pastel artist D. LaRue Mahlke bestows upon us not the sirens and agonies of myth, but the simple songs of the day, like a hidden swallow under the eaves. To get to that sweet spot,...
For painter Britt Freda there is as much underneath the painting as there is on the surface. Like all that has passed — people, places and things, descending below our feet, our consciousness, our daily lives — eventually ascends, sometimes subtly, sometimes not, into the...
First-quarter art sales set the tone for 2014...
Fresh on the heels of winning the 2013 Prix de West, carver-sculptor Steve Kestrel brings contemporary wildlife art to another level...
Santa Barbara architects, AB Design Studio, turn an elevation challenge into an extraordinary perch...
After a prolific career as a photographer, painter Marshall Noice creates masterpieces of color, shape and contrast...