Winemaker Stephen Rigby says he doesn’t have a lot to do with the vineyards at Raffaldini during the growing season, other than discuss their progress with vineyard manager Andy Shores. But as the fruit on the vines begins to show color in mid-July, he gets busy, bringing some of it back to the lab....
A builder, a venture capitalist and a real estate developer have joined forces in Beverly, Mass. to create a traditional, shingle-style residence qualified for LEED-Platinum status. Its mission is to educate consumers and builders about the benefits of green construction. And it’s going to debut during...
Frank Lloyd Wright never forgot the impact of the Froebel blocks his mother bought for him at an early age. “The smooth shapely maple blocks with which to build, the sense of which never afterward leaves the fingers: so form became feeling,” he once wrote. He later noted that when he finally went...
Seventeen years ago, Cedric Smith turned a love for advertising into a career as an artist. He’d been working as a barber’s apprentice in Atlanta. “To me, cutting hair was like sculpting,” the forty-year-old painter said. When Mississippi artist William Tolliver came into the shop for a trim,...
In a slim little volume that’s eminently readable, visionary architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood have documented how their firm, WORKac, recruited a team of 150 collaborators, built an elevated urban farm at the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) P.S.1 courtyard in Queens, New York, and put on a party...
Haskell Harris, associate editor at Garden & Gun, fervently believes that we’re caught up in the middle of a resurgent new Craftsman Movement. Her “Made in the South” section – from the soulful, Charleston-based magazine that delivers new meaning to the phrase “up-and-coming” –...
Micah Condon’s web site, www.dailypainters.com, has no shortage of aspiring artists waiting to post their work in his galleries. In fact, he’s basically got an embarassment of riches. “We’ve always had a big waiting list,” he said. “So this time, we decided to hold a competition to see who the next...
If he were a patient man, Mike Hughes might have turned to architecture for a career. Instead, he helped fast-track a small Southern ad agency into a top-tier, nationally-known communications firm. He’s president of The Martin Agency, named 2010 “Agency of the Year” by ADWEEK. That magazine...
Sometimes, the smartest thing a writer can do is get out of the way. That’s what Saxon Henry did with her new book, “Four Florida Moderns,” and the tactic’s paid off handsomely. Though she interviewed architects Alberto Alfonso, Rene Gonzalez, Chad Oppenheim and Guy Peterson, she chose not to inject...
Every year at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, Skram Furniture out of Hillsborough, N.C. unveils its new, modern, approachable products to the market. This year is no different, said Skram founder Jacob Marks (that’s Skram spelled backwards) – except for the debut of heavyweight...
