My love for my Romertopf clay baker is due in equal parts to practical usability, my nostalgia and the design. The iconic lettering and...

Church of St. James, pencil & watercolor, 7.25 x 10, Chipping Campden, England As traditional architects, we often look to the work of...

A Paper Plane, the Bowery Hotel – photo by Maxwell Imber It seems fitting on New Years Eve to think of cocktails. I had this wonderfully...

The holiday season in San Antonio is marked by an old Texas tradition as the time to prepare and eat tamales. For years, our family’s...

The Print Shop by Gustave Baumann Recently while visiting Nashville on a family trip, we were making all of the typical rounds – the...

Palisades of the Mississippi (c. 1909) by Frederick Oakes Sylvester Sitting on a bucolic limestone bluff in Elsa, Illinois, overlooking...

As we begin traveling for the Holidays we felt it was time to update some of our favorite restaurants. If on the Eastern Seaboard this...

Thank you to Tim O’Hara for sharing his recipe with the office. As we are preparing for the upcoming Thanksgiving, this Friday we are...

Palace of Fine Arts by Bernard Maybeck On a recent visit to San Francisco to visit the Fall Antique Fair, a celebration of the 100th...

Excerpts from Journey through Texas, or a Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier Old San Antonio The Festive Streets of old San Antonio...

Excerpts from Journey through Texas, or a Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier The San Antonio Road The San Antonio River in 1856 The...

Excerpts from Journey through Texas, or a Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier With the news of Leonardo DiCaprio playing the “Devil”...

Autumn on the Island of Vinalhaven (By Author) We were guided on to the ferry first- our car at the front of the boat as we headed over...

Some moments in life, thankfully or not, remain with us through the years. Due to strong emotion or life-altering change, these...

Crossing the Mississippi River from Louisiana to Natchez, you enter one of the historic gems of the South.  Standing high on the bluffs,...

We all have those buildings or structures that are at the edges of our lives; those special buildings, large & small that we pass by on a...

“At Potsdam, at Potsdam there is the wherewithal to make us happy.” Fredrick the Great from the memoirs of his reader, Henri de Catt –...

A mysterious misty blue island stands off at a distance in the deep blue Tyrrhenian Sea, its drama and its romance, desired by the rich...

Our driver managed the white-knuckle two-lane road with a drowsy ease as it wound through the hills of Campania towards the Italian...

My mom slathered a third layer of sunscreen on my already pink arms and hugged me one last time in front of my new home for the next...