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...
Sage Lodge in Montana’s Paradise Valley is one of those rare destinations where place is everything. Set between the craggy Absaroka peaks and the free-flowing Yellowstone River that cuts through the valley, this 50-room lodge on 1,200 idyllic acres is a stone’s throw in either...
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...
Set on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean, Seabrookfeels so magical people say it resembles a Hollywood movie set. The Washington beach town brims with cottages awash in robin’s egg blue, minty green, and butter yellow hues. Retreats dubbed “Whim-Sea” and “Tide Together” greet guests...
Black River Buckle by Vogt Silversmiths From one of the West’s most distinguished silversmiths comes this stylish solution for securing your jeans. Founded in California in 1970, Chet Vogt has been creating handsome belt buckles, handmade sterling silver women’s jewelry, and men’s accessories ever since. Each...
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...
Set at the foot of Mount Saint Helena, high in the Mayacamas Mountains, Knights Valley forms a bridge between the adjacent Napa and Sonoma valleys. Remote and rural, graced by rolling hills and picturesque valley vistas, buffeted by weather and light, the beauty of this...
For the vast majority of architecture firms, landscape architecture is considered a complementary but separate practice, even in the event they have a landscape designer on staff. It’s the building that’s primary, and landscape is secondary, providing a view, color, or perhaps warmth to orthogonal,...
It’s rare that a homeowner buys a spectacular vineyard property in California’s Wine Country without hurrying to get a house sited, designed, and built as quickly as possible. But when Kim Jordan and Dick Cantwell purchased property in the Sonoma County town of Occidental, they...
In 1944, Frank Mechau’s painting, Tom Kenney Comes Home, was part of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and included in a catalogue for the show. When Mechau received the catalogue, he got on his horse and carried it six miles down the...