Western Art & Architecture

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 been working on for the past three years; he’s been in no hurry to re...

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 direction from both Yellowstone National Park and the railroad-town-turned-arts-enclave of L...

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 years. Between high school and college at the Rhode Island School of Design, he traveled around the country in a VW Bus, sacking out at nigh...

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 as they meander paths laden with crushed oyster shells. It is a world of wraparound porches and ...

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 piece is meticulously handcrafted using traditional techniques to e...