The crates arrived before the architect did. At 8:30 on the morning of the photo shoot, American Women Artists (AWA) staff were unpacking paintings in...

If Cara Romero is not photographing with fire, she certainly is trying to ignite one. Romero is an artist-provocateur upending a tradition that has se...

There’s a lot of history in this land,” says interior designer William Peace about his clients’ home set between Livingston, Montana, and the no...

Byron and Keely Lewis had outgrown their 1930s Craftsman home, where they’d lived happily for 30 years. More precisely, their art collection had out...

Wandering is the word occupying much of David Griffin’s mind on this warm September morning. “It always appeared to imply that you were wasting ti...

Lichtenstein. Need I say more? You know I will. In fact, you can always count on me to use more words than necessary. Roy Lichtenstein climbed to fame...

Ben Steele came to Helper, Utah, in 2002, lured by the opportunity to apprentice under retired professor and artist David Dornan. He arrived in the fo...

Big Sky Floor Mirror with Jewelry Storage by Hooker Furnishings We love a beautiful piece of furniture — even more so when it’s hiding something u...

In 2024, San Francisco needed a jump start. Public complaints about the city hit an all-time high, and its  national reputation hit a record low. Tha...

There is more than meets the eye in the layered paintings, prints, and murals of celebrated Chicano artist Tony Ortega. Pieces by this artist reflect ...

The summer after high school, lifelong New Mexican Eric Romero and a few friends were backpacking in Spain. It was during what he calls his bohemian p...

George Phippen changed sculptor Bill Nebeker’s life. Twice. The first time came when Nebeker attended a Phippen art show in Prescott, Arizona, in 19...

Mitch Blake can’t remember what attracted the clients for the ChaChe Residence to the architecture firm he and Tom Ward founded in Jackson, Wyoming,...

From its inception, the renovation of a 3,200-square-foot condominium on the 22nd floor of a mid-century high-rise on San Francisco’s Russian Hill w...

When a couple moving from a Chicago high-rise to a Sacramento suburb asked Gary Orr, principal of Orr Design Office, to create a single-family home fo...

At a time when certain U.S. markets — and markets within markets — are bouncing around like a pinball inside its machine, the demand and prices fo...

In Conversation: Caroline Douglas, Where the Magic Happens I would have to say, clay chose me. I took a pottery class in high school, and from day one...

Hunt Slonem’s New York City studio is an explosion of color, art, and objects, from antique furniture to top hats, harps, framed photographs, plants...

Patricia Benner, much-awarded landscape designer and founder of Benner Reibel Landscape Architects, began her professional life with an MBA. She worke...

Prime Angus Beef from Bootheel 7 Ranch Fourth-generation Bootheel 7 Ranch relies on family values, land stewardship, and a passion for livestock. The ...

I’ve been wrestling for some time with what makes a home Mid-Century vs. Modern vs. Ranch-Style, other than the timeline,” says Craig McMahon, pri...

When you visualize the city of Los Angeles, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Gleaming skyscrapers, maybe. Gridlocked traffic on endless hi...

Adrienne Stein was under pressure. The atelier-trained painter had for years successfully put herself through every artistic rigor: studying and execu...

When Lynn Gray needs to place an object in her Santa Fe home, she makes use of her own internal Geiger counter, understanding intuitively where a thin...

Joan Benson and Stephen Kent created their first piece of shed antler decor for a client who’d hired them to renovate her three-story, 5,000-square-...

In the spring of 1998, a handful of the country’s finest Western craftsmen — a group that was, itself, not much larger than a handful — gathered...

On a warm day in San Francisco, September 22, 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy delivered a convincing campaign speech to some 1,500 supporters at the She...

Jemez Solid Wood Bench by Pfeifer Studio From Pfeifer Studio in New Mexico, this sleek, contemporary sculptural bench is built from a solid log of sus...

Michael Hennessey, the founder of San Francisco-based Hennessey Architecture, is known as a minimalist, but his aims are far from minimal. “Even tho...

In the 2002 film about Agnes Martin, produced by Mary Lance when the artist was 90, Martin looks mischievously at the camera and delivers this classic...

Donna Howell-Sickles is known throughout the Western world for her vibrant, joyful paintings of cowgirls. Bursting with color and life, they are also ...